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YOUR DONATION helps ensure the parks in our city remain accessible, equitable and serving everyone.

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Your gift of any amount to the Minneapolis Parks Foundation helps an independent, donor-supported nonprofit that believes parks have the power to connect us, heal us, and make us whole.

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Discover the many ways you can support your parks, including planned and DAF giving, employer matching funds, and sponsorship.

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Support Our Capital Campaign

The North Commons redevelopment is a community-rooted vision for realizing the park’s potential as the center of cultural, social, and economic vitality for North Minneapolis.

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Order a Bench or Paver

Give tribute to your favorite people and memories with a bench or paver at Lake Harriet or Bde Maka Ska.

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Remembering Paul Reyelts

With its mix of history, culture, community connection, and recreation, Water Works Park & Pavilion is one of the Minneapolis Parks Foundation’s proudest accomplishments. The parks volunteer and visionary who pushed for it the hardest was Paul Reyelts, who passed...

Summer in the City

From free swim lessons to pop-up summer camps around the city, your support for the People for Parks Fund is helping to get kids into the fresh air this summer Going to summer camp is a great Minnesota tradition, but getting there can be a grind.  Day camp hours...

People for Parks Fund 2024 Grantees Selected 

Your support is helping fund 13 great ideas for getting Minneapolis communities closer to nature From free swim lessons for underserved families, to fishing clinics hosted in five languages, to Somali cultural festivals, the projects funded by the People for Parks...

Closing the Adventure Gap

People of color make up more than 40 percent of the U.S. population, but are still vastly underrepresented in our country’s national parks,  accounting for just over 20 percent of visitors in a typical year.  That racial divide is one that National Geographic...

Pickleball for All

Spring into the country’s fastest-growing sport at the Minneapolis parks  According to sports industry reports, the ranks of the nation’s pickleball players nearly doubled between 2022 and 2023, with nearly 9 million players who now know a dink shot from a double...

Reconnecting to the Source

With help from a People for Parks Fund grant, kayaker Devin Brown is committed to getting more paddlers of color into the current. Devin Brown was visiting Minneapolis during the Aquatennial festival more than a decade ago when she fell hard for one of the region’s...

Green Spaces to Grow 

For the Carlson Family Foundation, improving access to parks is an investment in youth development. In study after study, parks have been shown to have a host of health benefits for young people, like building the social glue that holds friendships and families...

Raising Youth Voices to Reimagine North Commons 

With nearly 12,000 kids living within walking distance of North Commons Park, hearing what kids, teens and young adults want to see in their neighborhood park is an important step toward renovating and reimagining one of Minneapolis’s most iconic parks.  Last...

A Passion for the Parks

Questions and answers with Jocey Hale, the Minneapolis Parks Foundation’s interim executive director: An avid cyclist, swimmer and long-time parks supporter, Jocey Hale says not a day of her life in Minneapolis goes by without connecting to parks. Whether she’s biking...

Coming Together Through the Parks: 2023 Highlights & Reflections

Thanks to you, 2023 was a great year for get-togethers and growing support for our parks. Here are some 2023 Highlights & Reflections we’re excited to share! Minneapolis residents have countless  reasons to be proud of their parks–and parks supporters...

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To talk about your planned, major, or multi-year giving options, please contact:

Jennifer Downham
Chief Development Officer
612.822.3401

To talk about your annual or sustaining gift, or other ways to show your support, please contct:

Christine Moir
Annual Fund & Events Manager
612.354.7513

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