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Let's Green NYC volunteer initiative and community engagement
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The Let's Green NYC initiative is highlighted as a successful program to engage New Yorkers in park stewardship and volunteer activities. The campaign has involved nearly 850,000 volunteers since its start in 2023.
- An online directory was created to help New Yorkers find volunteer opportunities that match their interests.
- The Partnership for Parks, a public-private partnership with City Parks Foundation, plays a crucial role in supporting neighborhood park volunteers.
- The initiative aims to foster community engagement and empower citizens to care for their local green spaces.
Susan Donoghue
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We're focusing on keeping New Yorkers engaged and informed because it's so important to sustaining our park system.
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In 2024, we celebrated getting a record number of volunteers involved in their local parks through our Let's Green NYC initiative.
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Since the start of the campaign in 2023, we have engaged nearly 850,000 New Yorkers, volunteers in park stewardship and engagement activities.
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This ambitious effort to encourage New Yorkers to participate more deeply in the care of our shared green spaces also included an inventive online directory to help New Yorkers find the volunteer opportunities that best align with their interests, channeling their enthusiasm and their energy in the most productive direction.
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Fostering and shepherding New York's love for parks requires hard work and dedication from every corner of our agency, but especially the staff leading Partnership for Parks, our unique public private partnership with City Parks Foundation, which is our primary mechanism to support and champion neighborhood park volunteers by giving them the tools they need to advocate and care for their neighborhood parks and green spaces in a dedicated sustained way.
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From planting a record number of trees along our city streets to launching the biggest investment in our public pools in decades, twenty twenty four was a milestone year for our city's living infrastructure.