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February News 2015

Save the Date for Earth Day Spring Cleaning 2015
The Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, The Providence Parks and Recreation Department, and The Partnership for Providence Parks are once again pleased to offer a small grants program to provide funds and materials to help with your park/green space event for Providence Earth Day Spring Cleaning 2015, on April 25th from 9-12. Applications and details available here.. Additionally, we will supply: posters, trash bags, lawn and leaf bags, mulch, gloves, and some sort of Earth Day swag. Per popular request, we will be providing hearty snacks and beverages for your volunteers in lieu of a party on that day. This year we will also be promoting the RI Tree Alliance's attempt to break the world Tree Hugging record and the YMCA's Healthy Family event.  Once again, a Johnson & Wales student crew will be visiting each site to take short videos. Our aim is to put all of these together to create a short movie to showcase your efforts. Check out last year's video here
Additional funds may be available for clean-ups from the
Narragansett Bay Commission 2015 Earth Day River Restoration Initiative Grant . Click here for more information.

 
Neighborhood Performing Arts Grants
 The City of Providence is now accepting proposals for Celebrate Providence! 2014 Neighborhood Performing Arts Initiative (NPAI). The Department of Art, Culture + Tourism, the Department of Parks + Recreation and Partnership for Providence Parks are getting ready for another fun summer of theater, dance, music and live performances in Providence’s communities. Click here for details and application.

Grant applications are also available for the NPAI Smaller Sights and Sounds Series (for smaller or newer parks/groups) to try out some smaller scale performing arts events. Click here for details and application. Please email Wendy if you have any questions about either opportunity.

 
  3rd Annual Winter Parks Academy 2015 Schedule 
We are excited to offer some past favorites with our community partners: Managing volunteers/Serve RI; Oral Histories/Alyssa Biolchini; Grant Writing and Fund Development/Rhode Island Foundation; Urban Refuges/USFWS; Planning a Neighborhood Performing Art Event/AC+T; and more! We will also have a couple of new workshops that have been requested by our park and tree volunteers. Early registration and schedule here. Please forward to any organization that could benefit from workshops. 
 
Welcome Matthew Smith
This year we are welcoming Matthew Henry Smith on board as the Partnership’s new Community and Media Management Intern. As a lifelong resident of the City of Providence, Matthew has enjoyed our parks for over two decades and has a robust understanding of what it takes for communities to maintain and develop our city’s recreation spaces. He is an undergraduate student in Providence College’s Public and Community Service Studies Program and is ecstatic to be a part of managing the relationships between the Partnership and its community partners. 
 
General Street Park  Design Night
 
Councilman David Salvatore, The City of Providence and many community partners are working together to make General Street Park a great park. Neighbors and the community came together on January 29th to share ideas and be part of the planning team. To learn more or be part of the team, email wendy@providenceparks.org
 
Congratulations Friends of Corliss Park
Friends of Corliss Park just received a New England Grassroots Fund Seed Grant to build the capacity of their organization. Congrats to the Friends for their hard work to make Corliss Park shine! To learn more about the Friends of Corliss Park, visit them on Facebook.

April Alix, Education and Conservation Coordinator

Though the weather outside is cold and snowy, we've been hard at work planning an interactive garden space for the RI Spring Flower and Garden Show that will take place at the Convention Center from February 19th - 22nd. As a member organization for the Rhode Island Environmental Education Association (RIEEA), the Partnership for Providence Parks and the Providence Parks Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnership are connected to a network of Rhode Island organizations who have a common interest in environmental education and conservation. RIEEA is helping to coordinate the Flower Show this year with a theme of "Please Touch!" This year, all of the garden spaces in the show will have an interactive portion, inspiring children and their families to touch, play and learn! RIEEA will be sponsoring an interactive garden space, titled A Garden Edventure, that will host a variety of activities, including a sensory garden where children can use their senses to explore plants, a worm bin where families can dig deep to find worms, a fence weaving area where bright colored fabrics can be woven through a picket fence to create fun, visual designs, a fort building section where families can use their imaginations to build, a life-sized fairy house that families can walk through, a fairy house building area where natural objects can be constructed into unique fairy homes, a giant chalkboard to display imaginative masterpieces, a Creative Corner where mosaics can be assembled using items from nature, and even a large tunnel where families can crawl throughout the garden space! To learn more about this garden or to find out how you can volunteer to inspire play and engage families to explore and experience these adventures together, visit:

http://rieea.org/rieea-at-the-2015-ri-flower-show/ or email April at april@providenceparks.org

   
 PopUp Providence

The City of Providence Planning Department is  happy to announce that they are now accepting applications for PopUp Providence Year 3!  Please visit the website for more details and application.The deadline for this year is March 11, 2015 at 4:00 pm.

 

SAVE THE DATES
  • February 18 from 3:30-5:30 Jax Ribbon Cutting and Playful Winter at Bucklin Park To Be Rescheduled due to snow
  • February 19-22 RI Spring Flower and Garden Show RI Convention Center
  • 3rd Annual Earth Day Spring Cleaning will be Saturday, April 25, 2015
  • 3rd Annual Pop-Up Play Day will be at Roger Williams Park on Saturday, June 20, 2015
  • 3rd Annual Color Run will be Sunday, September 27th. Volunteer opportunities available for 25th-27th

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Partnership Office is Open
The Partnership office is open at 11 West Drive. If you need meeting space, a place to archive your group's materials, a copier, audio/visual equipment, or would like to borrow some pop-up play materials, contact Wendy at wendy@providenceparks.org.

Google Groups
Our tech Guru, Geoff Meek has set up a Google group so that we can chat directly with each other. Our discussion groups are here.
 You will need:
- An account with Google (Gmail, etc.)
- To request membership to the Partnership for Providence Parks group.
Once your membership is accepted (takes about 1/2 day), simply respond to one of the existing topics, or click the "New Topic" button at the top of the screen.
Using groups is just like using email, with the benefit that all members can view and respond to your messages. The group is also searchable, so you can find out what has been discussed in the past.
If you haven't signed up yet, or are having trouble with it, let Wendy know.

Facebook
Keep sending us your events and pics so we can post them. Oh..please LIKE and FRIEND us. There are some great pics up now of park events and stories in the news. http://www.facebook.com/PartnershipForProvidenceParks

Grants Available
New England Grass Roots Environmental Fund
If you have or haven't applied for a grant through the New England Grass Roots Fund (NEGEF) www.grassrootfund.org you may want to check them out. They are a great first grant to apply for. I am happy to walk anyone through this process. Seed grants are available for new groups and Grow grants for more established groups who may have already received funding from NEGEF. Go for it!

The Partnership
The Partnership is a city-wide public/private non-profit 501(C)3, in collaboration with the Parks Department, geared toward helping residents and community partners help our parks be active, vibrant, healthy, playful and unique places.
To learn more about the Partnership, please visit www.Providenceparks.org.

 
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