Prospect Park Alliance

🎧🗣️ Did you hear? This week's Public Health on Call Podcast from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health features Prospect Park Alliance President, Morgan Monaco on Prospect Park Alliance + NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Open Air Care Connections initiative in partnership with NHS Brooklyn CDC, Inc.. Open Air Care Connections addresses barriers to well-being + leverages the health benefits of nature through community health outreach, events and educational programs. Give it a listen to learn more on how the initiative came to life and how a question as simple as "How are you feeling today?" makes an impact on our Brooklyn community: https://lnkd.in/ew5jwKcV

Prospect Park Alliance’s strategic plan, “A Thriving Park for a Thriving Brooklyn,” provides a road map for the Alliance and the park for the next five years. This plan embodies the Alliance’s essential role in a post-pandemic Brooklyn, amplifying our capacity to enrich neighboring communities, unlocking new avenues to ensure the financial future of the park, and strategically prioritizing resources to meet ever-evolving needs. View the plan: https://lnkd.in/gpcy-WbY c. Elizabeth Keegin Colley

Prospect Park Alliance's Vice President of Capital and Landscape Management, Christian Zimmerman, has been awarded the Olmsted Stewardship Award by the @olmstednetwork thanks to his work, vision and stewardship of Prospect Park. "Over three decades, Zimmerman has worked tirelessly to restore the landscape of Prospect Park, introduce the next generation of landscape architects to Frederick Law Olmsted and generously assist many cities in their restoration efforts." Learn more about the award: https://lnkd.in/e9X2kzsr c. Bess Adler

Prospect Park Alliance has been awarded $75,000 from the @NationalTrustforHistoric Preservation's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. This grant will further the Alliance's ReImagine Lefferts initiative to re-envision the mission and programming of the Lefferts Historic House museum to focus on exploring the lives, resistance and resilience of the Indigenous people of Lenapehoking, whose unceded ancestral lands the park and house rests upon, and the Africans enslaved by the Lefferts family. More: https://lnkd.in/gFNjBsT8 c. Obed Obwoge

Notice a familiar face in the ranks of City & State New York's 2024 Brooklyn Power 100 list? Prospect Park Alliance President and Park Administrator, Morgan Monaco has claimed a spot in the roundup of 2024's most influential Brooklynites alongside Prospect Park Alliance Board Chair, Iris Weinshall. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eHtScMhP c. Jordan Macy

I am honored have been a part of the Prospect Park Alliance Community Board, the work the Alliance has done sets up a precedent of teamwork, cooperation and sets the high bar for taking in steak holders advice and making it into a agreement all steak holders can see themselves in. Working alongside the alliance to take part in pledges to reduce the budge cut to parks has been an example of their commitment to take in community feedback. Meeting with people of various professions and getting introduced to a network of leaders has been a highlight of my time there. I wish nothing but the best to the Alliance, and may they succeed with their future endeavors.

#PlayFair and #SaveNYCParks for the sake of our communities! Prospect Park Alliance President, Morgan Monaco, co-wrote an opinion piece with Sheila Barksdale-Gordon and Dionne Grayman, founders of We Run Brownsville in Caribbean Life News and Brooklyn Paper to advocate for the restoration of the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation budget. “The current budget cut — $55 million and 900 staff — places our parks and open spaces at risk, with funding and staff for necessary services like basic maintenance and trash management greatly reduced or eliminated altogether...Our parks aren’t just essential spaces to connect with nature — they are critical living infrastructure, forums for democracy and opportunity, and places of healing and community building. They are free, accessible gathering places where people of all ages come together to improve their health, relieve stress, and build stronger relationships.” Read more at https://lnkd.in/ex9SDJWq and advocate for parks with New Yorkers for Parks through the link in our bio. c. Sanden Wolff

Don’t let the sun set on this opportunity to make a difference in Prospect Park – our essential green space! 🌆 Help Prospect Park Alliance sustain the park through an #EarthDay gift and keep Prospect Park’s 30,000+ magnificent trees, 585 acres of meadows, waterways and woodlands and 250+ species of birds and other wildlife happy and healthy for years to come. Give: bit.ly/2024SpringGift c. Instagram user alexepajares

Today is Earth Day! Celebrate by supporting Brooklyn’s Backyard and make a difference in your park. Each time you visit, you’ll see all that your support makes possible – from sustaining Brooklyn’s last remaining forest and only lake to supporting the vital habitat of countless wildlife species and much more. Give today: bit.ly/2024SpringGift c. Martin Seck, Jon Bilous, Fiora Watts, Meir Chaimowitz

Help Brooklyn’s Backyard spread its wings this #EarthDay! Know that your gift to Prospect Park Alliance will help keep Prospect Park an essential haven for our community of people, plants and wildlife. Give today and watch your park take flight: bit.ly/2024SpringGift c. IG users tinygem, ashcov, alana_leigh