Fairmount Park Conservancy

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Planting a Tree at Cobbs Creek Park at Callowhill.

Growing a Cleaner, Greener Neighborhood

Growing a Cleaner, Greener Neighborhood is a four year-old program of citizen-initiated park improvements to the neighborhood parks of the Fairmount Park system. The program pairs corporate volunteers with neighborhood residents who make improvements to their park based on priorities identified by the community. Since 2004, the following nine neighborhood parks have benefited from Growing a Cleaner, Greener Neighborhood :  Kemble, Fernhill, Cloverly, Fisher, Palmer, Stephen Girard,Wingohocking, Penn Treaty and Cobbs Creek at Callohill. This year we are improving Tacony Creek Park at Garland Street and the 33rd Street Corridor of East Park in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood.

This empowering work brings neighbors and the business sector together, instilling new life and community to their neighborhoods, improving the parks' ability to attract and retain neighborhood residents, and significantly contributing to Philadelphia's quality of life. These parks enjoy strong local support, as each park's users and supporters enter into an extensive community process to choose which projects will be undertaken, and make a commitment to maintain the improvements.

Growing a Cleaner, Greener Neighborhood is administered by Fairmount Park Commission staff with support from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Philadelphia Green and the City of Philadelphia Neighborhood Transformation Initiative (NTI).

This program is funded by the Fairmount Park Conservancy through grants from: ACE INA, a Philadelphia-based operating division of the ACE Group of Companies, NovaCare Rehabilitation, a national and local physical rehabilitation company, the William Penn Foundation, and the Philadelphia Foundation's Albert Lofgren-Antoinette Farrar Seymour Fund.

 


Removing Invasive Vines in Cobbs Creek Park at Callowhill

 


Volunteers at our Recent Penn Treaty Park Work Day