APA

Astoria Park Alliance meets Tuesday, March 5th
at 6:30 at Steinway Reform Church on Ditmars Blvd & 41st Street.

All are welcome!!!

[Updated]
Welcome and introductions
Minutes

• Gardening report - AGAG
• GreenShores report
• Astoria Greenway
• NY Cares Day April 20 Astoria Park
• It's My Park Day - May
• QBP Funds hearing
• Diving Pool renovation phase
• Shore Fest brainstorming 2013
• NY4P advocacy April 11
• Blog site update

Funds

NYT: New York Parks in Less Affluent Areas Lack Big Gifts

New York Parks in Less Affluent Areas Lack Big Gifts
www.nytimes.com new-york-parks-in-less-affluent-areas-lack-big-gifts.html

While praising the recent generosity toward parks, Holly M. Leicht, executive director of New Yorkers for Parks, said she hoped that the city could devise ways to somehow share the wealth.
“Even though it’s great that there are individual gifts to individual parks, it’s a park system,” Ms. Leicht said. “That lends itself to having a broad-based fund or thinking creatively about funding.”
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Friends of Wingate Park, in Brooklyn, for example, recently won a grant from Partnerships for Parks, a joint program of the City Parks Foundation and the parks department, to help pay for materials to recruit volunteers and foster group identity. The amount: $800.

HT - GreenShoresnyc.org