Fundraising Archives | Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation

Dig Deep! Strawberry Hill Bike Park campaign launches, March 22-24

Dig Deep! Strawberry Hill Bike Park campaign launches, March 22-24

Dig deep! The Strawberry Hill Bike Park campaign launches March 22-24 with a weekend of events for families and riders of all ages, sponsored by the Bainbridge Island Parks & Trails Foundation.

Proceeds from all events support construction of the island’s first-ever dedicated bike park at Strawberry Hill Park for riders of all ages. The 8-acre bike park will feature 1.5 miles of riding trails with challenging features like jumps, flyovers and berms. A special skill-building area will welcome new riders or those honing their bike riding skills.

The Parks & Trails Foundation and Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District hope to break ground on the Bike Park this fall. The Foundation is about halfway to the $450,000 fundraising goal, and donors at all levels are encouraged to give today to support the Bike Park.

“Bainbridge Island is a biking community that generously supports […]

Dig Deep! Strawberry Hill Bike Park campaign launches, March 22-24Douglas2024-04-01T11:06:01-07:00

Help expand Founders Courts pickleball center

Help expand Founders Courts pickleball center

Join the Bainbridge Island pickleball community in supporting Founders Courts phase 2, bringing more courts and amenities to the Battle Point Park center.

The project will renovate and upgrade Battle Point’s existing tennis courts to create six new pickleball courts, with enhancements to the surrounding area that will unify the Founders Courts pickleball facility.

The tennis courts will be resurfaced and striped for pickleball play, with new heavy-duty portable nets added. Court access will be improved with two new arched entryways, an expanded west entrance with concrete, and a new kiosk alongside the walkway.

New amenities will include two “Shellscape” pads for picnic tables and logoed umbrellas. Court fencing will also be improved.

Give today! GIVE TODAY

Help expand Founders Courts pickleball centerDouglas2024-02-16T14:50:59-08:00

Join us for Moritani Community Picnic, Sept. 4

Join us for Moritani Community Picnic, Sept. 4

Tasty gourmet picnic boxes are available for purchase at this year’s Moritani Community Picnic, 4–6 p.m. on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 4 at Moritani Preserve.

Local band WHOZYAMAMA returns with their spicy brand of Cajun and Creole music for this relaxed, end-of-summer celebration for the entire family. The event is free!

New this year: Purchase a delicious, gourmet picnic box from island caterer Fig & Spice to benefit the Preserve. Each picnic box for one includes naan bites with an array of fresh, Mediterranean-style dips; an organic tabbouleh salad; salted tahini chocolate chip cookies; and choice of kombucha or premium sodas.

Picnic boxes are $40, with all proceeds benefiting the restoration and stewardship of Moritani Preserve. Pre-order is over, but a limited number of boxes will be available at the event.

Love a relaxing afternoon in the park? Kick back in the grass and enjoy live, local music at Moritani Preserve, 542 Winlsow Way […]

Join us for Moritani Community Picnic, Sept. 4Douglas2023-08-31T11:40:53-07:00

Join us at Party for Parks, Aug. 4

Join us at Party for Parks, Aug. 4

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Join us at Party for Parks, Aug. 4Douglas2023-07-12T14:24:15-07:00

Help build the Fort Ward Playground

Help build the Fort Ward Playground

UPDATE AUG. 17:

We did it! The Fort Ward playground campaign is complete, and the playground is coming soon.

Thank you to all who supported the campaign through the Bainbridge Island Park & Trails Foundation. Together, we are creating a wonderful new space for neighborhood connection and healthy outdoor play for kids and families.

The playground – with an exciting play structure, loop monkey bars and spinner – is now under construction in the Parade Ground park. Visit the park to see the play area take shape in the coming days.

We look forward to celebrating the Fort Ward Playground with you soon!

Help build the Fort Ward PlaygroundDouglas2023-08-17T09:41:54-07:00

Gideon Park ivy pull makes ripples across the sea

Gideon Park ivy pull makes ripples across the sea

An ivy pull in tiny Gideon Park is making ripples halfway around the globe.

Students from the Odyssey Multiage Program are raising funds to help young women in the island nations of Melanesia, through the Parks Foundation’s new ParksCorps program – doing well for their overseas peers, by doing good for Bainbridge Island parks.

The students’ volunteer work is benefiting Melanesian Women Today, providing scholarships for girls who would otherwise be denied the educational opportunities kids here take for granted.

“Everyone should be able to learn and have an education,” says Abby Myrick, an Odyssey seventh grader. “I feel like those girls who don’t get to learn there, I just want to help them so they can learn and do stuff with their lives that they want to do. I think that’s important.”

Odyssey seventh and eighth graders are working at Gideon Park […]

Gideon Park ivy pull makes ripples across the seaDouglas2022-05-20T11:50:41-07:00

Parks Foundation, BIJAEMA partner for Pritchard Park restoration, documentary film

Parks Foundation, BIJAEMA partner for Pritchard Park restoration, documentary film

March 30, 2022 marks the 80th anniversary of the forced exclusion of Bainbridge Island’s Japanese Americans for wartime incarceration.

To honor this milestone, the Bainbridge Island Parks Foundation and Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial Association are partnering on stewardship projects and a documentary film at the memorial site and Pritchard Park.

UPDATE: This campaign is now fully funded.

“The wartime exclusion and welcome return of the island’s Japanese American neighbors is a foundational story of our community,” said Mary Meier, Parks Foundation executive director. “This partnership is about healing both land and people, as we honor a uniquely Bainbridge Island story that resonates into the present day.”

Two environmental restoration events launch the project.

On Feb. 19, the Parks Foundation and BIJAEMA co-sponsor a Volunteer Work Day on the annual Day of Remembrance for Executive Order 9066, which authorized the wartime […]

Parks Foundation, BIJAEMA partner for Pritchard Park restoration, documentary filmDouglas2022-01-24T19:11:39-08:00

Your gifts matched up to $100K, now through Dec. 31

Your gifts matched up to $100K, now through Dec. 31

KidsUp! Playground. Founders Courts pickleball. Blakely Harbor Park, Moritani Preserve, Hawley Cove, Pritchard Park, and Halls Hill Lookout. More than 42 miles of beautiful trails islandwide. So many parks and trails, so many healthy, enriching experiences made possible year-round by your generous support of the Bainbridge Island Parks Foundation. Help sustain our work in the coming year!

DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT – GIVE TODAY

Here’s great news as you give: An island family is matching ALL gifts to the Parks Foundation thru Dec. 31. Your $100 gift becomes $200 … your $500 gift becomes $1,000 … and on it goes, up to $100,000. How much can you give? Double your impact as you support the parks and trails that connect us all.

Give today. Because we love parks.

Your gifts matched up to $100K, now through Dec. 31Douglas2021-12-07T10:03:03-08:00

Raise funds, steward parks through Nonprofits Helping Parks

Raise funds, steward parks through Nonprofits Helping Parks

Island nonprofits organizations can earn funds for park stewardship through Nonprofits Helping Parks, sponsored by the Bainbridge Island Parks Foundation and Bainbridge Metro Parks.

Nonprofits Helping Parks was started in 2020 to bring more stewardship to local parks while offering incentives and benefits for nonprofit organizations. It works like this: Your club, youth group or nonprofit organization 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 Foundation will make a donation to your organization to thank you for your time and effort.

A great team-building opportunity and impactful in the community, these work parties bring islanders of all ages together to improve the health and beauty of Bainbridge Island parks and trails.

Past participating groups include Bainbridge Island Swim Club and […]

Raise funds, steward parks through Nonprofits Helping Parks Douglas2021-09-01T15:21:41-07:00

‘It is spectacular’ – KidsUp! The Next Generation of Play is here, Sept. 4

‘It is spectacular’ – KidsUp! The Next Generation of Play is here, Sept. 4

Chris Cain would tell you, he had the easy part.

Designing KidsUp! The Next Generation of Play, the spectacular, super-inclusive new playground at Battle Point Park, didn’t take much more than brainstorming with parents and suggesting what might go where. Then he stood back and watched.

“My role was really just to put ideas on paper, and get it spatially organized,” says Cain, a landscape architect with Bainbridge Island’s Studio Hanson Roberts. “Normally when we do a design project, it takes months of planning, there’s packages of drawings to deliver… I sat in on meetings and did some sketches here and there.”

Well, there was a little more to it than that. But when the new playground opens on Sept. 4, kids of all ages and abilities will find a veritable wonderland of sight, sound, sensation and even scent in the wildflower and herb gardens, play features […]

‘It is spectacular’ – KidsUp! The Next Generation of Play is here, Sept. 4Douglas2021-09-01T12:42:14-07:00