Prospect Park Alliance

Prospect Park Alliance

Non-profit Organizations

Brooklyn, New York 2,910 followers

The non-profit organization that sustains "Brooklyn's Backyard," working in partnership with the City of New York.

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Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the mid-nineteenth century, Prospect Park is one of Brooklyn’s most treasured destinations and a national landmark. The Prospect Park Alliance is a nonprofit organization founded in 1987 to restore and maintain Prospect Park after a long period of steady deterioration and decline. We preserve the natural environment, restore historic design and provide public programs and amenities for the Park, which receives more than 10 million visits each year. The Alliance plays a significant role in funding the operating budget that keeps the Park clean, safe and beautiful, and employs three-quarters of the staff that take care of the Park and engage its diverse surrounding communities. Today, Prospect Park is an international model for urban parks, and one of the premier green spaces in the United States.

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Industry
Non-profit Organizations
Company size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Brooklyn, New York
Type
Nonprofit
Founded
1987

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    Prospect Park Alliance has been awarded $75,000 from the @NationalTrustforHistoric Preservation's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. This grant will further the Alliance's ReImagine Lefferts initiative to re-envision the mission and programming of the Lefferts Historic House museum to focus on exploring the lives, resistance and resilience of the Indigenous people of Lenapehoking, whose unceded ancestral lands the park and house rests upon, and the Africans enslaved by the Lefferts family. More: https://lnkd.in/gFNjBsT8 c. Obed Obwoge

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    Jonathan Xique

    Lawrence University '28 | Posse Foundation NY Scholar | Educator at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

    I am honored have been a part of the Prospect Park Alliance Community Board, the work the Alliance has done sets up a precedent of teamwork, cooperation and sets the high bar for taking in steak holders advice and making it into a agreement all steak holders can see themselves in. Working alongside the alliance to take part in pledges to reduce the budge cut to parks has been an example of their commitment to take in community feedback. Meeting with people of various professions and getting introduced to a network of leaders has been a highlight of my time there. I wish nothing but the best to the Alliance, and may they succeed with their future endeavors.

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    #PlayFair and #SaveNYCParks for the sake of our communities! Prospect Park Alliance President, Morgan Monaco, co-wrote an opinion piece with Sheila Barksdale-Gordon and Dionne Grayman, founders of We Run Brownsville in Caribbean Life News and Brooklyn Paper to advocate for the restoration of the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation budget. “The current budget cut — $55 million and 900 staff — places our parks and open spaces at risk, with funding and staff for necessary services like basic maintenance and trash management greatly reduced or eliminated altogether...Our parks aren’t just essential spaces to connect with nature — they are critical living infrastructure, forums for democracy and opportunity, and places of healing and community building. They are free, accessible gathering places where people of all ages come together to improve their health, relieve stress, and build stronger relationships.” Read more at https://lnkd.in/ex9SDJWq and advocate for parks with New Yorkers for Parks through the link in our bio. c. Sanden Wolff

    • Many people enjoy the Long Meadow on a bright, summer park day.
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    Prospect Park Alliance

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    Don’t let the sun set on this opportunity to make a difference in Prospect Park – our essential green space! 🌆 Help Prospect Park Alliance sustain the park through an #EarthDay gift and keep Prospect Park’s 30,000+ magnificent trees, 585 acres of meadows, waterways and woodlands and 250+ species of birds and other wildlife happy and healthy for years to come. Give: bit.ly/2024SpringGift c. Instagram user alexepajares

    • A bright setting sun casts dark shadows from trees over the Long Meadow. Several clouds pass overhead with prominent halos around them from the sun’s rays. Many people enjoy the warm day picnicking, walking, and doing other park activities.
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    Prospect Park Alliance

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    Today is Earth Day! Celebrate by supporting Brooklyn’s Backyard and make a difference in your park. Each time you visit, you’ll see all that your support makes possible – from sustaining Brooklyn’s last remaining forest and only lake to supporting the vital habitat of countless wildlife species and much more. Give today: bit.ly/2024SpringGift c. Martin Seck, Jon Bilous, Fiora Watts, Meir Chaimowitz

    • Pink blooms populate on many trees casting spotted shadows on the lush grass in the park. People walk, picnic and cycle in the background.
    • Greenery floats on top of Prospect Park Lake and vibrant trees and shrubs line the shore of the calm Lake. The sky above is a clear blue.
    • A large light green tree stands in the Long Meadow with many people picnicking around it and enjoying the warm park weather.
    • A light pink bundle of flowers bloom from a tree branch. Behind the sky is a light blue.
    • A bright yellow warbler bird perches on a tree branch with small, light green leaves budding out.
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    Prospect Park Alliance

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    Did you know that Earth Day is next week? Prospect Park is home to Brooklyn’s last remaining forest, only lake and hundreds of species of plants and wildlife. Your #EarthDay gift to Prospect Park Alliance helps support and steward the 30,000+ magnificent trees, 585 acres of meadows, waterways and woodlands and 250+ species of birds and other wildlife that call Brooklyn’s Backyard home. Give today: https://lnkd.in/gH6Tr9Mh c. Sanden Wolff, CJ-Art&Photographie - CJP, Elizabeth Keegin Colley

    • Many people enjoy a grassy meadow in Prospect Park by sitting on blankets, walking, playing frisbee and more.
    • Prospect Park Lake on a sunny, blue sky day. It is shaded from the side by full, vibrant trees. In the background sits the Prospect Park Boathouse.
    • Ambergill Falls with clear water cascading down rocks and deep green foliage. Around the falls, the ground is covered with thriving vines, shrubs and orangey-red flowers.

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