Preserve-Your-Park Program

 

Preserve Your Park adopters participate in the first training event held in Pennypack Park on October 1, 2000.

 

The Natural Lands Restoration and Environmental Education Program launched the Preserve Your Park adoption program in March 2000.  The program provides park volunteers with the opportunity to "adopt" a small, manageable portion of a park and keep it healthy.  The Preserve-Your-Park Program helps volunteers become more familiar with the local plants, animals and ecology, learn proper techniques for ecological restoration and meetneighbors and fellow volunteers who share the common bond of natural land preservation.  When enrolling in this program, a group or individual promises to:

 

  • Participate for a minimum of one year.

  • Volunteer at least twice during the year.

  • Have adequate adult supervision for volunteers under 18 years of age.

  • Notify the park's volunteer coordinator at least two weeks in advance of all scheduled work days.

  • Focus on tasks and priorities specified by the Fairmount Park Commission.

  • Be willing to work with other people.

To get more information of the Preserve-Your-Park Program, please contact:

 

Thomas Dougherty

Office of Volunteer Services

Fairmount Park Commission 

Memorial Hall, West Park

4231 N. Concourse Drive

Philadelphia, PA  19131-3719

Phone: 215.685.0039

E-mail: thomas.dougherty@phila.gov

To find out about the types of volunteer projects done by Preserve Your Park adopters and other volunteers, please visit our Common Restoration Projects page.  The following groups are currently participating in the Preserve-Your-Park Program:

 

Cobbs Creek Park

Julin Chinn

AmeriCorps - Lamberton School

Boy Scouts Troops #270 & #322

Brother Rousseau Academy

Cassidy School

Cobbs Creek Community 

    Environmental Education Center

Friends Central Middle School

Friends of Cobbs Creek

Friends of Morris Park

Overbrook Chargers

Overbrook Farms Club

South of Cobbs Creek Association 

The Bartram Cluster

Turner Middle School

U.S. EPA Region III

 

Fairmount (East/West) Park

Rob Lewis

City Year

Cornerstone

Dad's Dream

De La Salle In Towne

Drexel University - Circle K

Episcopal Academy

FitzSimon Middle School

Franklin Institute

Girls United to Save the Environment 

Harmonious Volunteers

Parkside Riding and Driving Association 

Philadelphia Business and Technology Center

University of Pennsylvania Environmental Group

The Woodlynde School

Work to Ride, Inc.

 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

(FDR) Park

 

Fell School

Friends of FDR Skateboard Park

Nebinger School

Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory

 

Poquessing Creek Park

Benjamin Rush Middle School

Decatur School

Mast Charter School - Service Learning Class

Tacony Creek Park

Bryne's Tavern

Central East Middle School

Cooke Middle School

Finletter School

Friends of Tacony

Hopkinson School

LaSalle University - Community Learning Center

Melrose Park Garden Civic Association

New Creation Lutheran Church

Oakland Cemetery Company

Project Forward Leap

 

Pennypack Park

Baldi Middle School

Beverly Gay

Bill Johnson

Boy Scout Troop #160 & #696

Brady Family Chiropractic

Cycling Society of Canyon Crazies

Disston Elementary

Father Judge High School

Friends of Pennypack

George Washington High School

Girl Scout Troops #1283 & #608

Greg Ham

Holy Terrors Youth Organization

Huntingdon Valley Riding and Driving Association

Jackie Olson

J.H. Brown School

Jersey Action Riders Mountain Bike Club

Karen Kaczorek

Kathy McCrea

Liberty Bell Cycle

Lincoln High School - Environmental Technical Academy

Mast Charter Elementary School

Mayfair Elementary School

Neighbors on the Hilltop

Norma and Ken Rudolph

Northeast High School

Philadelphia Mountain Bike Association

Roland Williams

Schultz Family

Spruance School

Stan and Sheila Grossman

 

 

Wissahickon Valley Park

Boy Scout Troop #114

Chestnut Hill Academy

Friends of Carpenter's Woods

Friends of the Wissahickon

Friends of the Wissahickon - Vine Clearing Group

Jake Rogers Memorial Foundation, Inc.

Mishkan Shalom B'nai Mitzvah Class of 2001-2002

Outward Bound

REI, Inc.

Sierra Club - Inner City Outing

The Stainton and St. George Families

The Crefeld School

Wissahickon Restoration Volunteers

 

 

 

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