Thank you to our 2014 - 2015 sponsors
Thank you to our annual sponsors for 2014 - 2015. We had a great time at the Annual Awards event on Sept. 27, 2014 at Dressler's in Midtown.
Congratulations to our 2014 Award Winners
Thank you to everyone who joined us last night at our 6th Annual Awards Event!
Congratulations to our Award Winners that have made significant contributions to parks and recreation:
/// Corporate Recognition Award ///
Engineered Sintered Components, Troutman, NC
/// Brad Davis Lifetime Achievement Award ///
Anthony James, Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation
/// Joe Cogdell Volunteer Service Award ///
Philip Blumenthal
/// Non-Profit Organization Award ///
Wesley Chapel Friends of Parks & Rec
/// Project Recognition Award ///
Zahra Baker All Children’s Playground at Kiwanis Park, Hickory, NC
Partners for Parks 6th Annual Awards Event
Join us Wed. September 24, 2014 for our Annual Awards Event at 5:30p at Dressler's Restaurant where we’ll be honoring the region’s most successful green space projects & community volunteers. Details & Tix http://ow.ly/Bx7Ql
Can’t make the event? You can still donate to Partners for Parks. We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization and donations are tax deductible.
Music Box Lunch Series in Romare Bearden Park
These are small informal musical presentations featuring local and regional talent performing, noon – 1:30 pm, on Tuesdays and Fridays, April through September. Upcoming performances:
June 3: Tom Billotto
June 6: John Alexander
June 10: Caution! Blind Driver
June 13: John Franklin
June 17: Jeff Brown
June 20: Dave Haywood
June 24: Alan Barrington
June 27: Colby Dobbs
Thank you to our 2013-2014 Sponsors
Thank you to all of those who attended our Annual Awards Event on Oct. 2, 2013. A special thank you to our annual sponsors for 2014 including.
Sustaining Sponsors - Irwin Belk Foundation and Blumenthal Foundation;
Premeir Sponsors - Balfour Beatty Construction, Central Piedmont Community College, Cunningham Recreation, Duke Energy, Charlotte Flights, LandDesign, Landscape Structures, PriceWater, Ruff, Bond, Cobb, Wade & Bethune L.L.P., Site Solutions, Thorlo and Woolpert;
Patron Sponsors - Carolin Panthers, Carolina Parks and Play, Charlotte Center City Partners, Childress Klein Properties, Marty and Jim Garges, Musco Lighting, Neighboring Concepts, Margaret Price in honor of Brad Davis, Rachel Martin Design, Stantec, Steel Fab Inc., Stewart Engineering, Stone Restoration f America, ValleyCrest
Donor Sponsors - Allied Caster & Equipment, Mrs. Sarah Belk-Gambrell, Nancy & Al Brown, Catawba Lands Conservancy, Joe Cogdell, Diane & Randy Duke, Dressler's Restaurant, The Hickory Tavern, Levine Properties, Myers Park Trinity Little League, Ogletree Deakins, Sierra Club, Soccer Shots, United Construction, Wirth & Associates, Doug Youngblood
Romare Bearden September 2013 Events
2014 Annual Awards Reception
On Wednesday October 2 from 5:30 until 7:30, we will recognize these accomplishments and many others at our Annual Awards Event at Dressler's Restaurant at the Metropolitan, overlooking the recently restored Little Sugar Creek Greenway. At this event we will recognize our generous Sponsors, and celebrate the achievements of some of the region's most successful green space developments, park projects and community volunteers in 2013.
Become an annual sponsor (includes awards event tickets)
At this year's Awards Event, Dr. Tony Zeiss will update us on What's Happening on the Trail of History;, and we will announce a significant enhancement to our Board ; the creation of a Partners for Parks Advisory Committee.
Here are examples of how your annual support makes a direct impact. Partners for Parks:
1. Worked with the Trail of History Board and a major donor to create a new Fund that will build a new garden area that will be adjacent to Little Sugar Creek Greenway across the street from the Carolinas Medical Center complex.
2. Sponsored a feasibility study for the expansion of the Carolina Raptor Center.
3. Made a significant contribution and volunteer support to create a new playground at Park Road Park that will honor those who lost their lives at the Newtown, CT shooting.
4. Provided children scholarships to attend a variety of after school and summer programs.
5. Created a Fund and volunteer support to assist a local family that sustained significant injuries in the Boston Marathon bombing.
6. Established a Fund and volunteer support to work with the Friends of Wesley Chapel to create new parks and recreation facilities in that community.
7. Advocated for the adoption of 2013 Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation budget.
Festival in the Park - We Need Your Help!!
We Need Your Help!
Gimme Shelter from the rains.....
Festival in the Park welcomes each fall with rows of tents along Freedom Park, showcasing art, entertainment and more. Those signature tents offer shelter from the weather, protect art, stage dressing areas, cover face painting and so much more. But three days of massive rains in 2011 took out 14 of the Festivals tents, leaving need for shelter from the sun and rain for the future. We STILL need 7 more tents for 2013!
As a small non-profit relying on charitable donations and grants, losing the tents is a potential big hit for our budget. Could you help us? Each 10 x 10 white tent costs $308, so we hope to raise $2,156 to cover the 7 more tents we need.
Please consider a donation to the Festival in the Park, and then come out to the Festival September 20th through the 22nd and see the much-needed shelter that you provided!
Click here to give to this project.
Festival in the Park 1409 East Boulevard Charlotte, NC 28203 P: 704.338.1060