About the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation
The Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation
Our Mission – Building on community creativity and inspiration, we mobilize resources to improve parks and trails on Bainbridge Island.
Our Vision – Bainbridge Island will always be a place with abundant community-inspired parks and trails enjoyed by all.
We are the philanthropic partner of the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District
What we do
The Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to improving the Island’s parks and trails and to expanding recreational opportunities for all. We are funded by generous private donors, grantors, and contributions through One Call for All. We focus the interest and enthusiasm of our community to complete innovative park and trail projects that serve islanders and visitors alike: public access, public experience, and public enjoyment.
We are the primary philanthropic partner of the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District, the island’s municipal park agency. We make major grants to the Park District every year, supporting stewardship and conservation of the island’s 1,500 acres of public parkland; building major new park and recreation facilities like playgrounds and bike parks; and enhancing beloved park facilities and popular programs. Thanks to your support, we make it possible for the Park District to do more.
We also partner with the City of Bainbridge Island to on significant trail opportunities like the Sound to Olympics Trail, the Lost Valley Trail, and the Farm Trail.
The Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation: You know us by our works, because everything we do, you can use, experience and enjoy.
PARKS
>> Funding major capital park projects islandwide, from playgrounds to bike parks
>> Providing Community Grants for community-inspired projects
>> Funding conservation of natural lands to create new parks and expand existing ones, always for public access and enjoyment
TRAILS
>> Developing new trail connections through easement agreements and donations by generous private property owners
>> Funding trail construction by the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District, and supporting trail maintenance through Summer Trails Crew
>> Funding special equipment for boardwalk construction to protect environmentally sensitive areas
STEWARDSHIP
>> Supporting special stewardship programs, like Student Conservation Corps and ParksCorps, that provide Bainbridge youths and college-age students with work-learn opportunities that protect and enhance our trails and parks
>> Partnering on community stewardship events like the MLK Day of Service at Blakely Harbor Park, and the Day of Remembrance at the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial at Pritchard Park
Land Acknowledgement
“Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished.”
Chief Seattle 1854
We acknowledge that the land on which we gather is within the ancestral territory of the suq̀ʷabš “People of Clear Salt Water” (Suquamish People). Expert fisherman, canoe builders and basket weavers, the suq̀ʷabš live in harmony with the lands and waterways along Washington’s Central Salish Sea as they have for thousands of years. Here, the suq̀ʷabš live and protect the land and waters of their ancestors for future generations as promised by the Point Elliot Treaty of 1855.
Get to know us.
Reach out to the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation and learn more about our work.