City Park Foundation New York
Thanks to avery and many other dedicated new yorkers who took action at a critical time in our city s history city parks foundation now reaches 310 000 new yorkers every year offering programming to encourage.
City park foundation new york. Additionally the foundation will consider support for investigative reporting outlets that raise awareness and provide new information on drinking water and shale gas energy issues. See our current job opportunities below. At city parks foundation our mission is to encourage new yorkers to use their parks by offering free environmental education arts sports and community building programs that bring people into their local green spaces. In 1989 kramer vs.
They enrich and connect new yorkers through free and accessible arts sports education and community building initiatives. Kramer author avery corman was concerned about the state of the park near where he had grown up in the bronx so he began looking for ways to improve it. City parks foundation makes parks vibrant centers of community through sports arts community building and environmental education programs for new yorkers across all five boroughs. Cityparks play plays a central role in activating city parks foundation s mission to create vibrant and healthy urban communities through dynamic free sports programs in parks across new york city.
We offer full time part time and seasonal job opportunities across our organization. Visitors to central park are lucky to enjoy the benefits of the hard work of the. 310 000 new yorkers participating in our free arts sports education and community building programs. City parks foundation offers internship opportunities and apprenticeships each year for high school and college students.
We re currently looking for great candidates to join our team across our programs. City parks foundation cpf is the only nonprofit organization to create programs in parks throughout all five boroughs of new york city. These opportunities connect students to tangible work and life skills as they work alongside our staff to teach younger students in our gardens lead marine ecology lessons support summerstage programming and provide logistical support to our team. Capital one city parks foundation summerstage is new york city s largest free outdoor performing arts festival taking place in central park and 17 neighborhood parks around the city from june october presenting approximately 100 performances the majority of which are free of charge for 200 000 audiences annually.
Our free sports programs transform parks into centers for recreation. Cpf s park based programs the majority of which are free reach over 600 000 children and adults throughout new york city each year.