Another great ParksCorps event by Bainbridge Island Rowing in Waterfront Park last Saturday.
Home ground for the club and their Stan Pocock Rowing Center, Waterfront Park has benefited from the volunteer stewardship by the rowers for some years now, through our ParksCorps program – tugging invasives, spreading mulch and keeping the park environs healthy. We all win! For their efforts, BI Rowing earned a grant from the Parks & Trails Foundation to support their activities.
From Andrew Block, BI Rowing board member: “As always, BIR loves to work with and partner with the Parks & Trails Foundation to help maintain Waterfront Park! Even in the wet and cold, everyone had a smile on their face. We have received multiple comments from participants how much fun they and how gratifying it was.”
Get involved: The Parks & Trails Foundation introduced the ParksCorps program to bring more stewardship to local parks while offering incentives and benefits for nonprofit organizations. Your club, youth group or nonprofit commits to a work party in a public park or along a trail – pulling invasive weeds, for example, or putting in native plants or spreading gravel on trails – and the Parks & Trails Foundation will make a grant to your organization to thank you for your time and effort.
The grant will be valued at approximately $15 per service hour volunteered. For example: if you bring 40 people to a 2-hour work party, the Parks & Trails Foundation makes a donation of $1,200 to your organization.
Learn more: https://biparksfoundation.org/parkscorps/
