Portland Parks Foundation

Capital parks projects - in 2023, ppf completed the rose city park playground project, a public/private partnership with pp&r and the rose city playground project neighborhood group. Following completion of the rose city park playground, ppf entered into another partnership with the city, local park advocates to renovate three new playgrounds including george park, raymond park, and portland heights park. Ppf also secured an agreement with the city to restore the thompson elk fountain which was removed after damaged by fire during protests in 2020. Ppf raised the funds needed to fund the design documents needed to restore the elk while the city agreed to fund the construction. Continued on schedule o.in 2023, ppf raised over $160,000 to fund the design portion of the project which were at 90% completion by the end of 2023 and will be gifted to the city in 2024. Ppf also transferred the final payment to the city for the maintenance fund for the barbara walker crossing, a pedestrian bridge over west burnside connecting the wildwood trail between washington and forest park.

Parks programming and maintenance - in the summer of 2023, ppf implemented paseo, an event taking place over three sundays in shemanski park to reimagine downtown in our oldest parks by bringing together and uplifting bipoc artists, community members, and organizations.