The Friends of Four Parks Alliance 2022 Community Campaign

Help us welcome more people, to more health and wellness events, in our clean, beautiful parks, and help us remove barriers to participation!

This summer we will continue cleaning up our parks. ensuring that they are safe places, and also provide free yoga classes, free samba classes, a low cost 5K fun run, community socials, a party for our pets, holiday events, and more, to meet our neighbors and uplift our shared spaces!

If you value our goals, love your neighbors, and love your parks, please make a suggested donation of $50, or whatever you can afford.

With your support we will do the following:

Step 1) We will remove barriers to participation especially for low income residents such as removing registration fees, purchasing "loaner" yoga mats, and adding opportunities to improve well being all year.

Step 2) We will immediately increase our engagement with local residents through social media, print marketing, and direct digital/in-person engagement.  

Step 3) We will reward committed volunteers and program participants with equipment to help them maintain their wellness on their own time. We will assess this by surveying participants through the year and review the responses for signifiers or ongoing improved heath, wellness and community connections.

We want to reliably, efficiently, and continuously provide occasions for joy, self-improvement, connection, resilience, in a clean, safe, beautiful environment, for free, for as many as possible. We want to improve our parks, and connect with the people who live here.

We live in a hard working Bronx community that is underserved. Friends of 4 Parks fills a gap left by businesses, the city, and state agencies.

Most of our local residents, our neighbors, represent historically marginalized groups, many are rent burdened, working multiples jobs during irregular hours, where English is not a first language, and living below the poverty line. 

We are all experiencing stress, anxiety, trauma, and depression.

We are all experiencing the shock effects local gun violence and other serious crimes, poor building management and more.

As a community we are woefully under appreciated and need inspiring leisure, wellness, and recreation spaces.

Community building events, healthy foods, and accessible exercise opportunities are scarce and much needed.