Governors Island Alliance Inc

Visitor services & community outreach: the friends provided visitor services to the public on governors island, operating two welcome centers that provide information and essential retail items. The centers also offered 230 free public walking tours to over 2,100 visitors in 2024. Visitor services staff, volunteers & interns also served as exhibition attendants for public artworks and as event support at free public events run by the friends, such as pumpkin point and earth day of service.

Volunteer program: the friends volunteer program recruited, trained, deployed and engaged200 active individual volunteersand over2,700 corporate employee volunteersto provide direct services to governors island in horticulture, visitor services, public events, public tours, public art and more. Together, these groups contributed over 14,500 hours of service in 2024.

Public events & gatherings: the friends hostedfour major free public events in 2024: ice sculpture, egg hunt, pumpkin point, and earth day of service. In addition, the organization hosted multiple team offsites for companies, nonprofits and other groups to enjoy a day of relaxation, recreation and activities on governors island.