Spring in Minnesota is where impatience and optimism converge. For every sunny, seventy-degree day, there is a cold and rainy (not snow if...
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Growing Stronger After 20 Years
This April marks two anniversaries for Minneapolis parks: 140 years ago, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board was established as the first...
Welcome Vicky Soukaseum, Director of Projects
Vicky Soukaseum is a breath of fresh air. To the newly created role of Director of Projects, she brings a powerful combination of thoughtfulness,...
Innovative Spark’d Studios Are Right for This Moment
Earlier this month, I had the honor to attend the grand opening celebration of the first new Spark’d Studio at Harrison Park. The Spark’d...
New Videos and StoryMap Explore Water Works Stories
Opened in 2021, Water Works Park and Pavilion was conceived as a space for celebrating the power of the Mississippi River and our relationship to it...
Minneapolis Parks Foundation invites applicants for 2023 People for Parks Fund grants
Updated 3/8/2023: Deadline has been extended to March 24, 2023! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Local nonprofits, government agencies, and community groups...
Join Us March 30 for the Next Generation of Parks: “Play and Restoration in Our Post-Pandemic World,” with internationally celebrated landscape designer Mikyoung Kim
Thursday, March 30, 7-8:30pm, University of Minnesota’s Rapson Hall Minneapolis, Minn. – Emerging from a consolidated incubation period of...
2022 Highlights and Reflections
Unlike plunging into the Covid pandemic in 2020, which happened literally overnight for many of us, emerging from this life- and world-changing...
Minneapolis Parks Foundation welcomes Shelley Carthen Watson, Jocey Hale, Joseph Humke, and Jean Sazevich to its Board of Directors
Minneapolis, Minn. – The Minneapolis Parks Foundation today announced that its Board of Directors welcomed four new members: Shelley Carthen Watson,...