Last week, I was granted a rare opportunity to travel to Salzburg, Austria, to participate in a Global Seminar titled The Child in the City: Health,...
Category: From the Executive Director
We transform human life through parks
Parks have the power to connect us, heal us, and make us whole. The Minneapolis Parks Foundation believes in the power of parks to transform human...
2016 in review
We believe in the power of parks to transform human life. That’s why we continue to focus on the following core strategies that help us create more...
Park Board moves forward on funding referendum
Last night at its regular meeting, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board of Commissioners voted to ask the City of Minneapolis to put a...
#TBT – Despite heavy rain, Sunrise on the Mississippi was a hit
Thank you to all 242 hardy Minnesotans who made it out to Boom Island at 7am, Thursday, September 17, for our first annual Sunrise on the...
Kate Orff Lecture: Projecting future solutions onto the canvas of the cityscape
One of the great pleasures I have in working in the realm of parks is getting to meet and work with innovators who are solving problems for the next...
Lectures to Inspire Parks for the Next Generation
Each March, Minneapolis Parks transition from a winter wonderland to a summer playground. This unheralded but critical transition can occur in a...
Tom Evers speaks at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Tuesday, January 27
Our own Tom Evers will kick off the 2015 weekly seminar series at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, better known as the Stream Lab. The weekly...
Reflecting on the river
In late October, after the glorious blaze of autumn color had begun to fade from the trees, Minneapolis Parks Foundation staff spent a half-day...