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Tag: Boston Parks and REcreation

  • Saturday, January 29, 9:15 am – 1:30 pm – Growing a Friends Group

    Organizing your group and keeping it energized can be challenging for both new and experienced advocates. Join other park/open space advocates in this workshop with Paul Sutton, Urban Wilds Initiative Program Manager, Boston Parks and Recreation; Conrad Crawford, Director of Partnerships, DCR; and leaders from established park friends groups in Boston. Presenters will share advice and experience about creating and building an effective friends group. There will be opportunities to ask questions, and following the workshop there will be a networking lunch at a restaurant in Chinatown for those interested.

    Where: The Metropolitan Community Room, 38 Oak Street, Chinatown (pictured below)
    When: Saturday January 29, 2011
    Time: 9:15am Coffee
    9:30am -12:00pm Workshop
    12:30pm Networking lunch
    RSVP: nina@bostonparks.org

    The Metropolitan is two blocks from the Orange Line’s New England Medical Center station, and a 10 minute walk from the Boylston Station on the Green Line.
    Hourly parking is available in the Metropolitan’s public garage.

    The workshop will cover topics relevant to newer groups and more established groups:

    * How to structure your friends group
    * Whether or not to incorporate
    * Recruiting key stakeholders in your community: individuals, youth, churches, businesses
    * Putting volunteers to work
    * Organizing activities and events
    * Relationships with park agencies
    * Advocating for your park

  • Monday, June 21, 6:30 pm – Ringgold Park Community Meeting

    Join the City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department and the Friends of Ringgold Park on Monday, June 21, at 6:30 pm in third floor Child Care Room of the Blackstone Community Center, 50 West Brookline Street,  to discuss Ringgold Park’s Center Circle Fountain project.  See the site plans, express your views, and take an active part in the process.  See how different construction materials affect the budget.  Your input is wanted. The highly trafficked Ringgold Park, which rests on Ringgold Street between Shawmut Avenue and Tremont Street, has recently become a matter of discussion as initial building plans have been put into place to construct a fountain in its barren, grassy center. Complicating matters, however, is the need to raise at least $85,000 to fully fund construction costs. An interesting report on the project to date may be found at www.mysouthend.com.

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