Parks Foundation Calgary
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Mission Statement
We exist so all Calgarians can enjoy a healthy lifestyle by providing easily accessible and unique, sport and green spaces.
About This Cause
Parks will always matter. They are cherished places where we play, connect with each other and immerse ourselves in nature. Parks development is vital to the creation of healthy, innovative and liveable cities. Ongoing support is required to build and improve Calgary’s treasured parks and school playgrounds, as public funding only takes us so far. At the Parks Foundation, we create parks through partnerships with communities. We directly impact every Calgary community through support of playground, sport and park projects. In the last ten years, we’ve developed and supported over 150 park projects valued at $23 million and impacting more than 50 communities. Through Parks Foundation Calgary’s Dedication Program, over 1,000 park benches and picnic tables in Calgary been sponsored, providing beautiful resting places and allowing people to honor their loved ones through a custom inscription on a memory plaque. We also led and managed projects that have added a unique vibrancy to our city. Shaw Millenium Park, North America’s largest free outdoor skate park located in downtown Calgary and Calgary Rotary Challenger Park, a barrier-free fully accessible meeting and recreational facility are proudly examples in our portfolio. Our largest project in the history of the Foundation, The Rotary/Mattamy Greenway has placed Calgary as the only city in North America to have a network of parks and pathways that encircles the entire city. At Parks Foundation Calgary, we’ve also awarded more than $12 million in support of amateur sport, to non-profit groups in the city. Please consider making a donation. Your support will help us create new parks, improve existing park space and offer important community programs and grants to Calgarians. When our parks thrive, we all benefit, and our city becomes a healthier, more vibrant place to live, connect and succeed.