Park Pride celebrated National Public Lands Day Saturday, Sept. 27, by partnering with corporations and several of its community-based Friends of the Park groups and conducting volunteer work days in several Atlanta parks.National Public Lands Day is the nation's largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve America's public lands—begun in 1994 with three federal agencies and 700 volunteers. More than 120,000 volunteers lent a hand at more than 1,600 locations in every state of the nation.
UPS was the first partner to support Park Pride’s National Public Lands Day efforts. Volunteers from UPS worked with community leaders to rehabilitate the playground and clear underbrush in Adams Park in southwest Atlanta.
Elsewhere, Girl Scouts Troops, Friends of Collier Heights Park and GA Tech Team Buzz volunteered at parks around Atlanta, including Gilliam Park in Kirkwood, Spink Collins Park in northwest Atlanta and northwest Atlanta park cleaning up the parks and planting flowers.
“National Public Lands Day lets us honor the tremendous legacy that earlier generations have given us,” said Park Pride Executive Director George Dusenbury. “We also recognize the need to build upon their legacy by volunteering in our parks and working to create more parks. No major city has a smaller percent of its land dedicated to parks than does Atlanta.”
Park Pride invites other community, corporate or civic organizations to celebrate our public lands while working to create more and better parks all over Atlanta. Contact Ayanna Williams at (404) 917-7963 or Ayanna@parkpride.org to learn how you can help improve the public legacy that we leave our children and future generations.
Park Pride, founded in 1989, is the only organization that works with communities all over Atlanta to improve their parks. In 2007, Park Pride coordinated more than 20,000 hours of volunteer work in Atlanta parks, developed new conceptual park plans for seven parks and helped start more than a dozen “Friends of the Park” groups. Park Pride is able to engage and serve the community by generating Friends of the Park groups, focusing on advocacy efforts as well as promoting participation in its Adopt-a-Park, Park Visioning, Volunteer, Fiscal Partners and Micro Grant programs.
UPS was the first partner to support Park Pride’s National Public Lands Day efforts. Volunteers from UPS worked with community leaders to rehabilitate the playground and clear underbrush in Adams Park in southwest Atlanta.
Elsewhere, Girl Scouts Troops, Friends of Collier Heights Park and GA Tech Team Buzz volunteered at parks around Atlanta, including Gilliam Park in Kirkwood, Spink Collins Park in northwest Atlanta and northwest Atlanta park cleaning up the parks and planting flowers.
“National Public Lands Day lets us honor the tremendous legacy that earlier generations have given us,” said Park Pride Executive Director George Dusenbury. “We also recognize the need to build upon their legacy by volunteering in our parks and working to create more parks. No major city has a smaller percent of its land dedicated to parks than does Atlanta.”
Park Pride invites other community, corporate or civic organizations to celebrate our public lands while working to create more and better parks all over Atlanta. Contact Ayanna Williams at (404) 917-7963 or Ayanna@parkpride.org to learn how you can help improve the public legacy that we leave our children and future generations.
Park Pride, founded in 1989, is the only organization that works with communities all over Atlanta to improve their parks. In 2007, Park Pride coordinated more than 20,000 hours of volunteer work in Atlanta parks, developed new conceptual park plans for seven parks and helped start more than a dozen “Friends of the Park” groups. Park Pride is able to engage and serve the community by generating Friends of the Park groups, focusing on advocacy efforts as well as promoting participation in its Adopt-a-Park, Park Visioning, Volunteer, Fiscal Partners and Micro Grant programs.
Park Pride continues to work with local organizations and community members to support the creation of the BeltLine, which promises to create more than 1,000 acres of new parks and 33 miles of trails. For more information on Park Pride please visit www.parkpride.org
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