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Tag: Boston Parks Department

  • 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

  • Sunday, October 25, 4:00 pm – Friends of Hayes Park Annual Auction

    The Friends of Hayes Park, Inc. is a group of public-spirited neighbors dedicated to maintaining Hayes Park, a green gem located at the corner of Warren Avenue and West Canton Street in Boston’s South End. Organized in 1987 to redesign what was then a derelict, concrete-paved lot, the Friends now have a membership numbering more than 250 families. Each year, members donate an extraordinary 1,400 hours to keep the park beautiful.

    Since renovating the park in 1992, the Friends, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, has been a “Park Partner” with the Boston Parks Department. The funds needed to maintain the park are all provided by the Friends. In addition, the Friends host free community events, that draw visitors from all across the city — including an annual May Day, Summer Picnic, Harvestfest, and Christmas Caroling — and support local partners, organizing such events as canned goods collections for a local food pantry, and for the last 18 years, sponsoring a South End Little League Baseball team, the Hayes Park Yankees.

    The group’s annual Auction will take place Sunday, October 25, beginning at 4:00 pm at the Boston Ballet Building,  19 Clarendon Street in Boston.  Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door, and may be purchased on line at www.hayespark.org.  An enticing sample of auction items can be found on their home page, so we encourage you to support this fine organization.

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  • Tuesday, September 15, 7:00 – 9:00 pm – Brewer Plaza Presentation

    The Friends of the Public Garden, in conjunction with the Boston Parks and Recreation Department, invite you to a presentation on a proposal for the renovation of the Brewer Plaza on Boston Common.  The meeting will take place Tuesday, September 15, from 7 – 9 pm, at Suffolk University, 120 Tremont St., 4th Floor.  See and hear about plans to renovate the Plaza, making a greener, more inviting gateway into the Common and a destination within the park with a restored Brewer Fountain as its centerpiece.  For questions, call the Friends of the Public Garden office at 617-723-8144.

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  • Thursday, June 19 – Rose Garden Party

    Mrs. Angela Menino and Commissioner Antonia Pollak cordially invite you to the 12th Annual Rose Garden Party to benefit Park ARTS, Thursday, June 19 from 5:30-8:00, The Rose Garden, Back Bay Fens, Boston. Garden party attire enthusiastically encouraged. Tickets $125. To reserve, call 617-961-3039.