Join the Austin Parks Foundation for the 7th annual It’s My Park Day, presented by Wheatsville Food Co-op This is the annual Austin area volunteer park improvement day on Saturday March 7 and we have over 40 park improvement projects that needed volunteers – planting trees and plants, clean-ups, non native tree and plant removal and many other projects are …
It’s My Park! Day – Call for Project Leaders!
It’s My Park! Day is the Austin Parks Foundation’s biggest annual one-day event!  And we need your help! The next It’s My Park! Day will be March 7, 2009. Project leader registration is now open via www.austinparks.org/itsmypark.html. This earlier date will allow for tree planting and avoid major conflicts such as Clean Sweep, SXSW, Earth Day, and Spring Break. This year we …
Thanks to our Volunteers for It’s My Park Day 2008
The sixth annual It’s My Park! Day was Saturday, April 12 and we had a record 51 park improvement projects with 1,400 volunteers signed up. Â We’re getting back reports of actual numbers, but in the meantime, we wanted to begin sharing the many pictures that we are receiving – check them out on our Flickr Page
It’s My Park! Day – Hundreds of Volunteers Needed!
We now have 49 park projects scheduled for our sixth annual It’s My Park! Day on Saturday, April 12 from 9 am to 1 pm. Â We have over 500 volunteers signed up but we have space for hundreds of more volunteers. We have a variety of projects from planting, painting, trail construction, cutting, pruning and more. Â See the list of …
It’s My Tee Shirt!
We are still getting compliments on our 2006 It’s My Park! Day tee shirt, designed by Enviromedia. Today I even received this picture in my email – of Jessica from Keep Austin Beautiful wearing the shirt on her vacation to Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. It’s a good reminder-Austin Parks Foundation is just a small piece of the …