PARKS &
ENVIRONMENT
VISION STATEMENT
Connect educated, culturally aware communities of the peninsulas to protected and sustainable environments that encourage healthier lifestyles.
Since 2006, the Foundation has provided over $1-million in support to parks, public open spaces and the environment. These vital resources provide our community areas for exercise and relaxation, essential habitat and wildlife corridors, air and groundwater recharge, biodiversity and ecological integrity, and a myriad of human and natural system benefits – as well as important reasons for citizens to invest in their community. Parks provide more than simply places to recreate and explore nature; parks can also offer a multitude of opportunities to engage in arts and music. A park can be a community focal point, a symbol of its vitality and character, adding to its overall health, well-being and quality of life.
Conserving land for people where they live, work and play is one of the most cost efficient and effective ways to achieving a host of environmental health and related public policy objectives.
MISSION STATEMENT
Protect, preserve, and sustain environmental, cultural and personal health.
FOCUS OF THE PARKS & ENVIRONMENT CAB
The Parks and Environment Core Area Board (CAB) aims to lead and develop needed programs, projects, grants, endowments and support for initiatives that improve our parks, trails and open space resources, promote environmental awareness and stewardship, and engage our greater peninsula communities in the protection of our natural resources.
