SEATTLE PARKS FOUNDATION
Connections SPRING 2016
Change Takes Root in the Duwamish Valley: A New Generation Expands the Tree Canopy If you happened by Georgetown’s Carleton Avenue Grocery or the South Park Library on a recent Saturday, you might have seen a sign for “Free Trees / Árboles Gratis” and enthusiastic teenagers chatting with local residents and giving away conifers, broadleafs, fruit trees, and ornamentals. These young people are part of the Duwamish Tree Canopy Project, a program that trains local youth to address pervasive environmental and social inequity in the Duwamish Valley. The Port of Seattle and many area companies are working to reduce air pollution and other contaminants in neighborhoods like Georgetown and South Park, but local children still have some of the highest asthma rates in the city. The Superfund-status Duwamish River still isn’t safe for swimming or fishing. And the Duwamish Valley has a scant 4% tree canopy, compared to 23% for the city as a whole.
DIRT Corps members distribute free trees in Georgetown through the Duwamish Tree Canopy Project. Photo by Fedora el Morro at tinyboxmedia.com
Seattle’s Trees for Neighborhoods program is working to expand the city’s tree canopy to 30% by offering free trees to residents who apply online, pick up a tree, and attend a class on tree care. But this type of program is unlikely to succeed in places like South Park, where nearly 60% of the residents speak a language other than English at home, or in Georgetown, where nearly a third of residents are foreign-born, which complicates outreach. Many families live below the poverty line and may not have access to a computer to apply for a tree or a vehicle to pick it up. Some residents have physical limitations that prevent them from planting a tree themselves. When she started the Duwamish Tree Canopy Project two years ago, Cari Simson of Urban Systems Design realized that expanding the tree canopy in these South Seattle neighborhoods would require “meeting people where they’re at.” To do this, the Tree Canopy Project relies on the efforts of young residents working under the auspices of the Duwamish Valley Youth Corps, a program of the Duwamish River Cleanup continued next page
Change Takes Root in the Duwamish Valley (from front page) Coalition, and Simson’s Duwamish Infrastructure Restoration Training (DIRT Corps) program. These programs offer paid, on-the-job green infrastructure training to local teens and young adults. The young people handing out and planting trees add something powerful to the work of restoration: a sense of ownership. This is their community, and they are making an impact that will extend far beyond the fledgling canopy. Illeana Gonzales, a veteran of the Duwamish Tree Canopy Project, is about to start her third quarter with the DIRT Corps. She says she always enjoyed spending time outside with her two children, but she didn’t really understand the effects of pollution and environmental degradation in the area until she began her green infrastructure training. She heard a guest speaker explain the prevalence of various diseases in Seattle by geographic area. It hit home: Her fouryear-old son has asthma. Now Gonzales is planning a career in stormwater management and environmental restoration work.
The young people handing out and planting trees add something powerful to the work of restoration: a sense of ownership.
“I want to do something that will improve my kids’ life quality and the environment we live in,” she says. With her training, her roots in the area, her passion, and her ability to communicate about environmental issues to her neighbors, Gonzales is perfectly positioned to embark on a career that supports and extends the environmental restoration work that the DIRT Corps and the Youth Corps are undertaking.
Carmen Martinez, who runs the Duwamish Valley Youth Corps, has watched her students become “experts on the trees, on light, water access, the right way to plant. I think it has really empowered them.” She says the students’ enthusiasm, language skills, and local knowledge have helped invigorate and broaden the reach of the Tree Canopy Project. These 13- to 18-year-olds have distributed fliers in multiple languages, held regular tree giveaways, and gone door-to-door doing outreach. In 2015 alone, they helped plant about 250 trees and returned to distribute watering bags. They also built and maintained a number of rain gardens, installed several hundred native plants, met with Mayor Ed Murray and Governor Jay Inslee to discuss health and environmental issues in their community, and coordinated the inaugural Environmental Education Youth Forum. While developing highly marketable job skills, Youth Corps and DIRT Corps members are engaged in something much bigger than the grunt work of restoration: They’re learning firsthand how environmental inequity has played out in their community, and they’re gaining the expertise and confidence to enact restoration programs that will make a lasting impact. Cari Simson estimates that the Tree Canopy Project is responsible for about 500 new trees in the area so far. With renewed funding this year from the Martin-Fabert Foundation, Tree Canopy Project participants will do targeted outreach in areas with the least amount of tree canopy. Georgetown resident and Tree Canopy Project Coordinator Andrew Schiffer has helped design a tagging and tracking system to monitor where the trees are planted. This data will allow project staff to measure changes to the canopy over time, follow up with residents on tree care, and provide additional trees to residents. Schiffer notes that it will take some time for the difference in the Duwamish tree canopy to be measurable because the trees are still young, but he’s optimistic about the impact of the program in his neighborhood. “It’s a long-term improvement,” he says.
Detective Cookie Chess Park Kids learning chess with Detective Cookie in Rainier Beach. Photo: Rainier Beach Merchants
Detective Denise “Cookie” Bouldin, a 32-year veteran of the Seattle Police Department, has lived in the Rainier Beach neighborhood for 30 years. Ten years ago, she started a chess club in her community as a way to prevent youth violence. The Detective Cookie Urban Youth Chess Club meets twice weekly, year-round, in donated spaces in Rainier Beach and attracts more than 190 young people each week. The profound impact of Detective Cookie’s work inspired Maia Segura, a local resident and The namesake of Detective Cookie principal of Penniless Projects, LLC, to help Chess Park, Denise Bouldin. Photo by Britt Le find a permanent home for the chess club. She founded the Friends of Detective Cookie Chess Park, which was recently awarded a Seattle Department of Neighborhoods grant to fund the planning and design of an outdoor chess park at the intersection of Rainier Avenue South and 51st Ave South. The vision for the park includes permanent chess tables designed by local artists, as well as outdoor amenities and community space for senior and disabled residents of Barton Place, a low-income apartment complex. The Seattle Department of Transportation is already planning improvements to the dangerous intersection. Detective Cookie has told interviewers that chess teaches patience and good decision making to kids who need both skills in order to survive in a rough part of the city. She has described how they initially approach her saying, “I’m not smart; chess is for smart people.” They leave proclaiming, “Detective Cookie, I’m smart!”
Streissguth Gardens: Celebrating 20 Years This year, Streissguth Gardens on the northwest side of Capitol Hill celebrates its 20th anniversary as a public garden. A small, family-maintained garden on a steep hillside, this little-known gem offers amazing views of Lake Union, downtown Seattle, and the Olympic Mountains. Carefully planted to offer flowers every day of the year, the park also features winding trails, gurgling ponds, and birdsong. The year-round attraction is open to all and is especially enjoyed by those who walk the East Blaine Street stairs.
From left: Ann, Ben, and Daniel Streisguth, keepers of the garden.
More than 40 years ago, the Streissguth family began transforming a tangled hillside into an acre or so of cultivated woodland and perennial beds. In the fall of 1996, Dan, Ann, and Ben Streissguth generously gave the land to Seattle Parks and Recreation. The Streissguth family continues to maintain the garden to this day.
The Pursuit of Environmental Equity in Seattle: A Conversation with Sudha Nandagopal On a sunny, crisp Wednesday in March, with the trees around City Hall preparing to burst into bloom, Seattle Parks Foundation’s director of community partnerships, Sean Watts, sat down for a conversation with Sudha Nandagopal, program manager for Seattle’s Equity & Environment Initiative (EEI). Launched by Mayor Ed Murray in 2015 as a partnership among several city departments, the community, and local and private foundations, the EEI is dedicated to ensuring that the Seattle communities most affected by environmental injustice are engaged in setting environmental priorities, designing strategies, and tracking progress.
An animated conversation between Sudha Nandagopal and Sean Watts. Photos by Britt Le
Sean: The mission of Seattle Parks Foundation is building a sustainable, accessible, connected
system of public spaces for all people. “Parks for All” is our rallying cry. When I learned about the EEI, it immediately resonated. Sudha: The initiative focuses on lifting up community-based solutions and creating
opportunities for communities of color, immigrants, refugees, low-income communities, and people with limited English proficiency to lead on Seattle’s environmental work. This initiative is a response to a long-stated need from communities that they want to be part of the decision making, and it’s also about an environmental movement that really wasn’t reflective of the communities that live in Seattle. Sean: How does the EEI engage communities in Seattle that have—over many decades—
suffered disproportionately from environmental damage? Sudha: Environmental hazards and environmental burdens impact our communities differently. Especially when there are issues with limited English proficiency, we know they aren’t able to access government as easily. If they are low-income, if they’re people of color, they’re likely facing some challenges around institutional and systemic racism.
In Seattle, we have a geography issue as well as a community issue. Our communities of color, our foreign-born communities, our immigrants and refugees primarily live in southwest and southeast Seattle and the International District. We might try to solve an issue by investing in environmental improvements in one area, but are we making those investments in a way that the community can stay there, and benefit from them? How we engage with these communities makes all the difference. New visions for communities must come from the communities themselves. How can we bring in open space so that neighbors don’t say, “Whoa, this park just got built and I don’t know where it came from”? We must listen carefully and always be learning. One of the things that’s been really key is having the Community Partners Steering Committee be made up of people who are from the communities that are the initiative’s focus and also recognizing that no one person represents communities entirely, so also doing deep engagement in these communities.
“By inviting people to the table who have not had access to the decisionmaking process, we can imagine and create new things together that alone we could never have dreamed of.”
With folks who don’t feel like they have access to their government, engagement is only effective if communities are present at the beginning of the conversation. And then you need to report back, to demonstrate that you actually listened, that the community helped shaped the design and make the decisions. It just won’t work if you ask people to engage after many of the decisions have already been made. Sean: I doubt any public agency folks are “against” the idea of transparency, but
isn’t there some nervousness around the kind of transparency you are talking about? Some nervousness that the community is going to ask for something the agency can’t give? Sudha: We’re trying to get people to think more holistically. I have heard folks say,
“We can’t have community members in the process yet; we need to figure out all these things first.” We have to remind ourselves that the community can actually help “figure out all these things first.” They can help us do better work. By inviting people to the table who have not had access to the decision-making process, we can imagine and create new things together that alone we could never have dreamed of. Sean: At the Parks Foundation, we try to work this way—to take cues from
community groups in transforming derelict spaces into welcoming, safe, healthy places. But it’s not just a question of the parks themselves, its— Sudha: It’s the sidewalk getting to the park, it’s what happens when you walk out your front
door: Do you feel safe enough to walk to the park, does your kid get to ride on their bike getting to that park? It’s all of those things. It’s also about what happens at that park. Is it a park where your community celebrates on a regular basis? Or is it a park where other people come and it doesn’t feel like yours? Sean: You begin to understand the complexities, the social relations, the interdependencies. Sudha: Sometimes those of us who work in institutions see things as more fixed than they are.
I think it’s important to have community members who understand that part of their role is to push us to understand those complexities, and to ask the hard questions. The reality is that we’re changing government and institutions all the time. Sometimes people might say, “I don’t see a path for this,” but this is government—our job is to shake things up so we can be more connected to the community. There is always a path, but it isn’t always a simple one.
Rainier Beach Urban Farm: Once Again, the Community Rallies When Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands got its start in 2009, local residents hoped to transform a patch of unused Seattle Parks and Recreation land into a place for growing food and gathering. The neighborhood, one of the most diverse in Seattle, faced serious challenges around hunger and poverty, and the farm was seen as something positive the local community could embrace and share with the city. Seattle Tilth’s garden experts joined the Friends of Rainier Beach Urban Farm in the planning process. From the beginning, says Tilth’s executive director Andrea Platt Dwyer, Tilth staff understood that their role was “learning from the vision,” not imposing a vision. “We began to see how people naturally used the space,” Dwyer recalls. “The vision grew and became more representative of the interests of the residents.” It became clear that not everyone was equally interested in gardening, composting, and wetlands restoration. But over time, those with one interest became more open to exploring the others. People would visit the farm to learn about growing vegetables, and “pretty soon they’re engaged in wetlands restoration and healthy soil building,” Dwyer says.
Andrea Platt Dwyer speaks to volunteers at an event.
As local residents and community partners learned more about the work of building up the farm while caring for the wetlands, the conversation about the significance of their work evolved. The farm was fast becoming much more significant than a place to grow vegetables: It was becoming a vehicle for education, meaningful connection, and community organizing around food systems issues. The Friends and Tilth leaders knew that the community could expand the vision, so they partnered with Seattle Parks Foundation in a capital campaign to fund classroom spaces, a children’s garden, a produce washing and packing station, greenhouses, a community gathering space, and further wetlands restoration. Donors were moved by the vision and encouraged by the transformative work already taking place, and $2.8 million fact that was swiftly raised.
“We accepted the we had to make some cuts and some modifications to the design plans so that we could build less expensively, but it seemed really important that we not shortchange this community again.”
The next stage of the process brought disheartening challenges: The public bidding process for the farm improvements dragged on, delaying the anticipated start of work. The booming economy drove up the price tag for construction, jeopardizing crucial improvements that community members and funders had rallied around.
In that uncertain time, Dwyer took the lead. “We accepted the fact that we had to make some cuts and some modifications to the design plans so that we could build less expensively,” she says. “But it seemed really important to me that we not shortchange this community again.” She was concerned that compromising too much would hurt the farm in the long term. Dwyer, the Friends, and other partners engaged Rainier Beach community members in an appeal to the Seattle City Council for additional public funding.
“We went to the city and said we’ve made these cuts, we’ve made these modifications, and we are hoping the city can step up and be part of the solution,” says Dwyer. Rainier Beach residents wrote letters, attended meetings, and made phone calls. They shared stories about how the farm had transformed their community, and they articulated how important the improvements would be for the farm and the neighborhood in the long term. Councilmember Bruce Harrell agreed to champion their cause, and eventually their advocacy bore fruit: The farm secured additional city funding. And in April a new construction bid came in on budget so that—at last—groundbreaking is scheduled for early June. The funding crisis served to strengthen the advocacy skills and resolve of all the farm’s advocates. Local residents learned civic engagement skills that will help them support and protect the farm for years to come. Donors were remarkably understanding about the delay, and many actually helped to advocate for additional support from the city. Dwyer maintained an unwavering commitment to the community’s vision as well as a process of collaboration and transparency. Perhaps the most powerful result is the extent to which the conversation around food systems issues has deepened. One of the many community members who volunteer their time at the farm.
“More and more people, municipalities, government entities, and healthcare organizations are connecting the dots between our broken food system and the need to repair our food system, and the importance of engaging community members in doing that,” says Dwyer.
Yikes! Lake Union Park Is Sinking But Parks Department Steps Up for Major Remediation Lake Union Park, which opened in 2010, is built on the site of a former lumber mill. Beneath the park is a 50-foot layer of fill interlaid with pockets of wood debris. Park designers anticipated some settling of the soils, but sections of the park are actually sinking. The park wasn’t designed and built incorrectly, according to Christopher Williams, deputy superintendent of Seattle Parks and Recreation. “But we didn’t anticipate that the settling would happen at the rate the settling has occurred,” he told the Seattle Times. The problem has caused the greatest inconvenience for users of the pedestrian bridge across the waterway on the west side of the park, which connects the Cheshiahud Loop and the parking lots next to MOHAI and the Center for Wooden
Boats. The bridge is also a critical connection for people who live and work in the area. The parks department closed the bridge in October 2014 after concrete abutments shifted. “We don’t think it’s safe for the public,” Williams told the Times. Sinking has occurred in other parts of the park as well, affecting the model boat pond and buckling sidewalks. Private-sector donors provided $20 million to support the design and construction of the $30 million park project. Many of them are obviously concerned, about both the sinking problem and how long it is taking to remedy it. Monitoring the rate of sinkage and designing a solution has been a necessarily, if frustratingly, slow process. The parks department is now on track to approve a design solution by mid-summer, with hopes of completing remediation efforts by spring 2018.
It Adds Up to Parks for All Total Excellence Fund Investments Exceed $1.1 Million Over the past three years, 24 community-led planning, capital, stewardship, and park activation projects have received a total of $1.15 million from the Stim Bullitt Parks Excellence Fund, one of the many legacies of a remarkable Seattle philanthropist. The Excellence Fund was established to support community partnerships that increase access for all residents to great public spaces. Fund investments are also made to leverage other private-sector philanthropy and public funding. This year, the fund enabled Seattle Parks Foundation to support six projects:
Cheasty Trails
Georgetown Vision Plan
Creating an integrated bike-and-pedestrian trail system at Cheasty Greenspace, a currently inaccessible 44-acre public forest on Beacon Hill that sits above the Rainier Vista housing development.
Supporting a community-designed plan for beautiful, connected public spaces throughout the heavily industrialized Georgetown neighborhood.
Seward Park Torii Rebuilding a beloved icon of international friendship—a gift to the city from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in 1934 to honor Seattle’s role as a gateway to Asia.
Concord Elementary Schoolyard Enhancing safe access to school for elementary school students in the South Park neighborhood and creating schoolyard rain gardens and butterfly gardens. Students gaze upon their outdoor classroom.
Urban Parks Activation Partnership Supporting a groundbreaking partnership among the Downtown Seattle Association, Alliance for Pioneer Square, Friends of Waterfront Seattle, and Seattle Parks and Recreation to transform our downtown parks into safe, attractive, and welcoming spaces for all residents.
Tiny Trees Preschool Providing start-up capital for preschool classes in parks throughout the city, through a program that is deeply committed to accessible and affordable early education for all Seattle children.
DONOR PROFILE:
Debra Holland and Pacific Continental Bank Pacific Continental Bank is a loyal business donor to Seattle Parks Foundation. Debra Holland is a vice president and relationship banking officer at Pacific Continental. What issues are important to Pacific Continental Bank as a community donor? Pacific Continental Bank’s giving is focused on multiple issue areas. Our newest issue area is sustainability and connecting people to the outdoors. The bank’s headquarters are in Eugene, Oregon, and there are locations across the Northwest. The outdoors is something that is important to the bank and all of us that reside in the Pacific Northwest. How do these issues reflect Pacific Continental Bank’s vision for the city of Seattle as a whole?
Debra Holland on a recent hike through the Hansville Greenway trails on the Kitsap Peninsula.
Currently in Seattle, we are surrounded by growth. Through this growth, we have an opportunity to build upon our existing community with new businesses, residents, and development. As a community business bank, we are always most concerned about the welfare of those living here. Pacific Continental Bank’s vision is to enhance the quality of life for those that live here. Research shows that as little as 30 minutes a week in the outdoors can improve people’s lives. We want to support efforts that help balance our growth and economic vitality with that open space connection. You personally have been a longtime supporter of our parks and trails. How does that fit into your personal vision for our city? I’m a Kitsap County resident, so every weekend my husband and I try to get outdoors on a hike or kayak out on the Sound. I truly value my time in nature and how it allows us to get away from it all. That connection to the outdoors is something I want to share with others. I like to post a picture on Facebook of our outings to inspire others to connect with nature and our local parks. What else should people know about Pacific Continental Bank? I think one of our community partners, Rebecca Blume from the Evans School [of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington], said it best: “Pacific Continental Bank is a model community partner. Imagine what our world would be like if all corporations cared for their communities and ‘walked the talk’ like PCB does.” How does it feel to work for an employer that aligns with your personal beliefs? This is a bank that really operates from the heart; it values high standards, entrepreneurship, and giving back. For a corporation to be so aligned with my personal beliefs makes it so easy to come to work every day.
Thank you to Debra Holland and Pacific Continental Bank for your many years of support! Learn more at www.therightbank.com.
Thank you! Parks Legacy Circle Recognizing extraordinary donors whose estate plans include legacy gifts to Seattle Parks Foundation. Anonymous (8) Sally Bagshaw Thatcher Bailey Kathy and Keith Biever Marjorie Boetter Lynn Bursten Karen Daubert Barbara Feasy Brian Giddens and Steve Rovig Roy Hamrick Mary Jayne and Jay Jones Pamela McCabe Ann and Daniel Streissguth Jean Sundborg Debbie and Rick Zajicek $100,000+
Anonymous Descendants of Prentice Bloedel Descendants of Sol Simpson Black Family Ketcham Family Laird Norton Company ▲▲ Merrill and Ring Norcliffe Foundation ▲ Nancy Nordhoff and Lynn Hayes ▲ Pine Street Group RAVE Foundation R.D. Merrill Company Satterberg Foundation Unico UrbanVisions Weyerhaeuser Company Wyncote Foundation NW ▲▲ $50,000+
Anonymous Daniels Real Estate Tsuchino and Michael Forrester Goodfellow Fund ▲ Juniper Foundation Martin-Fabert Foundation Miller Johnson Family Fund Furman and Susan Moseley ▲▲ Paul H. Moseley Nitze-Stagen and Company Inc. Peach Foundation ▲▲ Pendleton and Elisabeth Carey Miller Charitable Foundation ▲▲ Prairie Foundation Doug and Sarah Reed ▲ Mark E. Reed
$25,000+
Anonymous Ann and Bruce Blume ▲▲ Beatrice and T. William Booth ▲▲ Bullitt Foundation D.V. and Ida J. McEachern Charitable Trust HerRay! Foundation Mary Jayne and Jay Jones ▲▲ Eleanor and Charlie Nolan ▲▲ Peg and Rick Young Foundation Lee and Stuart Rolfe ▲▲ Seattle Garden Club ▲ The Wolff Company Barbara and Charlie Wright ▲ Martha Wyckoff and Jerry Tone ▲▲ $10,000+
Amazon ▲ Anonymous Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ▲▲ Susan and Brad Brickman Committee of 33 Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation ▲ Heather and Jim Hughes ▲▲ Lani and Larry Johnson ▲▲ Jim and Diana Judson Amy and Garrett Kephart Kirkpatrick Family Foundation Ellen Look and Tony Cavalieri ▲ Glen and Alison Milliman ▲ Moccasin Lake Foundation Laurel and John Nesholm ▲▲ Nesholm Family Foundation ▲▲ Ordinary People Foundation ▲ PCC Natural Markets ▲ Plumb Level and Square Fund Katherine and Douglass Raff ▲▲ Richard Nelson Ryan Foundation ▲ Seattle Foundation ▲▲ TEW Foundation Jonathan Tran Tulalip Tribes Doug and Maggie Walker ▲▲ Willowmoor Foundation $5,000+
Chap and Eve Alvord ▲▲ Anonymous Thatcher Bailey ▲
Bank of America ▲ Linda and Charles Barbo Judith and Steven Clifford ▲▲ Barbee and James Crutcher ▲▲ Betsey Curran and Jonathan King ▲ Deupree Family Foundation Leonora and Jesse Diller eNotes.com, Inc. ▲▲ Jody Foster and John Ryan ▲ Cheryl Gertsch Brian Giddens and Steve Rovig ▲▲ Goldman Sachs and Co. Matching Gift Program ▲ Jodi Green and Mike Halperin ▲▲ Roy Hamrick and Stephen Carstens ▲▲ Barb and Doug Herrington ▲ Gretchen Hull ▲▲ Innovating Worthy Projects Foundation LR Isabella JJ Jacobi and Eric Neumann ▲ Erin and Brad Kahn ▲▲ William P. Ketcham ▲ Linda Larson and Gerry Johnson ▲▲ Carla and Don Lewis ▲▲ Carol Lewis and Tom Byers ▲▲ Katie and Kyle McCoy ▲ Franny and Casey Mead ▲ Yazmin Mehdi and Liam Lavery ▲ Microsoft Matching Gifts ▲▲ Harriet and John Morton ▲▲ Tom Neir and Sally Otten Nintendo of America Inc. Jeannie and Bruce Nordstrom ▲ Norman Archibald Charitable Foundation ▲ Pete and Pat Curran Family Fund REI ▲▲ Schwab Charitable Seattle Tilth Association Stansbury Family Foundation Ann and Daniel Streissguth ▲▲ Chris and David Towne ▲▲ United Way of King County Lolly and David Victor ▲
The following are current donors to Seattle Parks Foundation as of March 1, 2016. 5 years of giving ▲ Wyman Youth Trust ▲ Debbie and Rick Zajicek ▲ $2,500+
1910 Fairview Project Molly and Marco Abbruzzese Rosemary Agostini Alki Elementary School Alliance for Biking and Walking Betty Bottler ▲▲ Ken Bounds and Linda Gorton ▲▲ Paul and Debbi Brainerd ▲▲ Allegra Calder and Gabriel Grant Meg Crager Carol A. Doroshow and John C. Sweval Tom Douglas Barbara Feasey and Bill Bryant ▲▲ Neal and Jane Friedman Gary and Vicki Glant ▲▲ Carole Grayson James L. Green Doris Koo and Edward Chu Pamela and Bob McCabe ▲▲ Lyn McCracken and Christine Coe ▲ Matt Meltzer Miyake Family Charitable Grants Tom and Erin Neubauer O’Brien Investment Company Pacific Continental Bank ▲ Pacifica Law Group Roger Peniche Taylor Phillips Beth and Chris Purcell ▲▲ Roberta Riley and Peter Mason ▲ Kate Roosevelt and Caroline Mailard ▲ Runstad Foundation ▲▲ Janice Sears and Thomas Brown ▲ Security Properties Selander O’Brien Attorneys Sameer Shah Ron and Eva Sher ▲ Patricia Solberg Starbucks Coffee Company ▲ Myra Tanita and Peter Young ▲▲ Huong Vu and Bill Bozarth ▲ Scott and Jennifer Wyatt ▲ Jane Zalutsky and Mark Kantor $1,000+
Alaska Airlines
10 years of giving ▲▲ Tom Alberg and Judi Beck ▲▲ Altria Nancy Alvord Richard and Nancy Alvord ▲▲ American Endowment Foundation Phoebe Andrew ▲▲ Anonymous Lyle and Betty Appleford ▲▲ Barbara Bailey Mark and Heather Barbieri ▲ Doug and Mary Bayley ▲ Beane Family Foundation Bel-Air Garden Club Theresa Beaulieu Fraser and Deirdre Black ▲▲ Boeing Gift Matching Program ▲▲ Robert C. Castonguay Central Co-op William E. and Amy Clise Stacey and Jeff Crawshaw-Lewis Jill Cronauer Dagmar and Robert Cronn Allison CurdEntzminger Adit Dalvi Carrie Delaney Rhodes ▲▲ Tracy and Eric Dobmeier Anjali D’Souza and Peter Meis Andrea Dwyer and Kristi Lloyd Ann Fagan ▲▲ Ellen Ferguson ▲▲ Fidelity Charitable Mark Foltz Noreen and Fritz Frink ▲▲ Dr. Howard Frumkin and Joanne Silberner Carole Fuller and Evan Schwab ▲ Lisa Garbrick Hope R. Garrett and Peter Garrett ▲▲ Katharyn Alvord Gerlich ▲▲ Joan Gray and Harris Hoffman ▲▲ Blake and Erika Grayson Gayle and Donald Harris ▲▲ Jane Hedreen and David Thyer ▲ Constance Hellyer Susan Holiday Arlene Holtan Sara Hoppin ▲▲ C. David Hughbanks ▲▲ Kilroy Hughes Hunters Capital LLC Winky and Peter Hussey
Michael Hyde Nancy Iannucci and Harvey Jones Lucile and David James James E and Constance L Bell Foundation David M. Jenkins ▲ Robert Jenkins Theodore and Linda Johnson ▲▲ JPMorgan Chase & Co. Mary and Peter Kerr King and Oliason PLLC Peter Kolb and Cheri Parker June Kubo Bernadette and Roland Kumasaka Edie Lackland ▲▲ Lakewood Seward Park Neighborhood Association Matt and Leslie Leber Sharon Lee ▲ Alice Jean and Don Lewis ▲▲ Local Independent Charities of America ▲ Stephen and Lori Markowitz Darrin Massena Tom and Carolee Mathers ▲▲ Craig McKibben and Sarah Merner ▲▲ Sharon Meehan Marcus and Pat Meier Hilary and Dan Mohr ▲▲ Anna and Matthew Moore ▲ Bob and Constance Moser John Mueller Carol Munro Susie Naficy William and Sally Neukom Janet Nickerson and Jay Moss Norberg Family Foundation ▲▲ Mr. Roger Nyhus ▲▲ Karen O’Brien and Jeff Hall Oregon Community Foundation Carol Ottenberg ▲ Valerie Payne ▲▲ Judy Pigott ▲▲ Pike Place Market David and Lindsay Price Darlene Pursley Patricia and Richard Radeke ▲ Brooks and Susie Ragen ▲▲ Anthony Repanich and Julie Florida Kathy and Chris Robertson ▲▲ Hugh Rubin and Sally Burkhart
Helen Runstein ▲ Cathy Sarkowsky ▲▲ Cleo Selandar Mary Sheehan Brad Shutzberg Charles P. Sitkin ▲▲ Louise SlonekerMaison Starbucks Matching Gifts Program Jane Stonecipher Benjamin and Andrea Streissguth ▲ Teutsch Partners, LLC ▲▲ Leigh Toner and Christopher Capossela Liza and Jay Turley Todd Vogel and Karen Hust ▲ Jean Walkinshaw ▲▲ Wallingford Community Council Colleen Walsh Ruth and Todd Warren ▲ Rolfe Watson Pam Weeks and Pamm Hanson ▲ Judith A. Whetzel ▲ Robert and Sara Wicklein Wittmann Cardinal Fund at The Seattle Foundation ▲ Steven and Mary Wood ▲▲ Barbara Wright and Dwight Gee ▲▲ Howard S. Wright III and Kate Janeway ▲▲ Ann P. Wyckoff ▲▲ Kathi Young Marcia Zech $500+
Denis Adair ▲ Joan Alworth and Peter Ackroyd Jan McPhee Anderson ▲ Joanne and Dean Anderson Joel and Sandy Aslanian Allison Augustyn and Mike Kollins Brad and Sally Bagshaw ▲▲ Bruce Bailey and Heidi Barrett ▲ Lucia Baratta and John Sessions Ted and Heather Barker ▲ Barking Dog Alehouse Peter Barlow Thomas Bayley William and Mary Black ▲▲ Blackrock Matching Gift Program Jeanne Ehrlichman Bluechel Bosa Development Washington Jeremy Bronson Susan Brotman Bullitt Foundation ▲ Kavita Cariapa Frederick and Virginia Chard Jamie Cheney
Columbia City Church of Hope Terry Cook Keelin Curran and Jack Brummet Karen Daubert and Jared Smith ▲▲ Eliza Davidson and Randolph Urmston ▲ Guy Davis and Cecilia Webber Daphne Dejanikus and Julian Simon ▲ Jenna Dietrich Barbara J. Dingfield ▲▲ Adam Dodge Lori Dugdale Vasiliki Dwyer Joe and Marsann Drew Easterday Peter S. Ehrlichman Erin Fairley and Bill Patz ▲▲ Sibyl Frankenburg and Steven Kessel Fremont Brewing Company Andrew Friedman Gary Fuller and Randy Everett Joseph and Terri Gaffney ▲ Vera Garibaldi and Harvey Gorsuch Julie Gerrard ▲▲ Google Inc. Matching Gift Program Gordian Development Brie Gyncild ▲ Susan Harmon and Richard Meyer Amanda Harris Jane Harvey and Charles Curtis Richard and Betty Hedreen ▲▲ Anne Helmholz ▲▲ Carol and Will Hodgman ▲ Lee Holcomb ▲ Terry Holme and Jeanne Iannucci ▲▲ Bill Horder ▲ Lewis Horowitz Nicole Ingrisano and Mary Leyden Pam and Jack Jolley Kimball Elementary PTSA Marianne and Wiley Kitchell Todd Kluger Phyllis Lamphere ▲▲ Landscape Agents ▲ Christopher and Alida Latham ▲▲ William Lawrence Robert Leach and Catherine Otto ▲▲ Greg and Corina Linden ▲ Lex Lindsey and Lynn Manley ▲▲ Phil and Karen Lloyd ▲▲ Louisa and Scott Malatos George and Beverly Martin ▲▲ Rick and Anne Matsen ▲▲ Sandy Melzer and Ellen Evans Beth and Samuel Miller Erin Miller
Tammy Morales and Harry Teicher NBBJ ▲ Nancy Neraas and Mike King ▲ Shannon Nichol Lisa and Peter Nitze Sheila Noonan and Peter Hartley Paulo and Elsa NunesUeno Laurie O’Brien Mary O’Brien Anthony Oliver Joy Ordal ▲ Andrea and Aaron Ostrovsky Mark Ostrow Mrs. Debra Page Mary-Bridget Pehl Hill Pierce Kathleen Pierce ▲▲ Pinnacle Gardens Foundation Andrew Price ▲▲ Joseph Puggelli Carolyn and Will Pugh Stephanie and Richard Rabang Prem and Laurie Radheshwar ▲ Patrick and Mary Ragen ▲ Merlin Rainwater ▲ Ann Ramsay-Jenkins ▲ Laxminarsimha Reddy Beth Reyes and Trisha Gilmore Andy Reynolds and Donna Stringer Jean Alvord Rhodes ▲▲
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Monthly Donors
Honor Gifts
Recognizing committed recurring donors.
Seattle Parks Foundation received gifts in honor of the following between January 1, 2015, and March 1, 2016.
Denis Adair Anonymous Paul Buchanan Jeff Hummel Diana Kincaid and Matthew Perkins Brice and Bridgette Maryman Shannon Nichol Page Pless Amit Ranade and Jennifer Faubion Shirley Savel Allison Seidel Catherine Thayer Public Support City of Seattle EPA King Conservation District Office of Economic Development Port of Seattle Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Seattle Department of Transportation Seattle Parks and Recreation University of Washington In-Kind Support John Bowden Central Co-op Hearing, Speech, and Deafness Center Hilliard’s Beer Linda Larson and Gerry Johnson Olson Kundig Carla and Don Lewis Pike Brewing Company Alison Stroll Urban Artworks Jonathan Wiedemann
Rosemary and George Agostini Judy Arnold Michael Berglund Dennis and Joyce Bleser Woody and Vanessa Brenton Sue Castonguay Bobbie Davis Jim Dennison Bob Ehrlichman Susan T. Fortney Sofie Freidman Friends of Yesler Swamp Volunteers Cheryl Gertsch David Charles Gertsch Monica Groves Alexander Hart Howard James Hentz Pat Higgins Donna and Fred Hoffer Nancy Iannucci Kichisaburo Ishimitsu Jim and Sarah Jacobson Luke Jane Kimes Parent of Kate Kingen Dalwyn Knight Lucas Knight Charles Koven Reid Krucky Ellen Look Vince Lyon Miles McClure Lois Meltzer Arthur Miller William Munro and Sydney the Dog Nickerson and Moss Anniversary David Notkin Oslo the Dog Margaret G. Parker Dan Parque Tobey Pierce Jody Ehrlichman Pineda Dr. R.T. Ravenholt Janet Schmidt Vinod Mahasukhlal Shah Janet Snapp Amara Doroshow Sweval Cathy Tuttle Krishna Venkatesh Douglas Walker Jim Weber Roberta Weeks Alexander Weiland Mary Jean Wheeler Christian D. Youtz
Board of Directors PRESIDENT
Q&A with New Members of the Team
Brad Kahn VICE PRESIDENT
Huong Vu SECRETARY
Jodi Green
Michelle Benetua, Duwamish Valley program manager
TREASURER
Robert Furlong, database manager
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Jerry Tone
What is your favorite park activity?
Ross Baker Bruce Blume Ken Bounds Allegra Calder Steve Clifford Howard Frumkin Brian Giddens Gerry Johnson Garrett Kephart Doris Koo Carla Lewis Carol Lewis Kyle McCoy John Nesholm Charles Nolan Paulo Nunes-Ueno Beth Purcell Doug Raff* Myra Tanita Chris Towne David Victor Charlie Wright
MB: Gardening, walking, watching my kids play on inventive and interesting playgrounds.
EX-OFFICIO
Britt Le, foundation coordinator
In which Seattle park have you spent the most time? MB: Marra Farm in South Park—working with kids from Concord Elementary for eight years on gardening and nutrition education, working my back muscles at various work parties, and enjoying many fall festivals, movie nights, and other amazing community and food-focused events. RF: I spent my youth cruising the Burke Gilman Trail. BL: I served two terms as an AmeriCorps member at EarthCorps, an environmental
restoration organization based out of Magnuson Park. I have many fond memories of doing early-morning group yoga in the parking lot. Imagine attempting to do sun salutations in work boots and with a coffee mug clutched tightly in one hand!
RF: Anything sports-related or sitting-on-a-blanket-related. BL: Hanging out in a hammock strung up between two perfect trees.
Why parks? MB: It’s where people of different backgrounds come together and share a communal resource.
It’s where everyone (we hope) can have a safe, healthy place to play, relax, and socialize. RF: Parks are free! Parks are for everyone! BL: I want to work to promote access, interest, and investment in spaces that belong to us all.
How do you help our partners? MB: I work primarily with South Park community members to keep momentum going on
the priority projects they identified in the South Park Green Space Vision Plan. This involves finding and connecting the project leads with opportunities for funding and finding ways to navigate opaque public processes. RF: I help our partners with their fundraising and constituent data. Data, data, data. BL: I’m here to keep our website updated with the most current project information and get the word out about our partners through our social media outlets.
Jesús Aguirre ADVISORY BOARD
Deirdre Black Barbee Crutcher* Barbara Feasey* Hope Garrett C. David Hughbanks Gretchen Hull Bob Ratliffe Scott Redman Chris Rogers Stu Rolfe Maggie Walker Steve Wood* * Founding board member
Staff Thatcher Bailey Michelle Benetua Betsey Curran Robert Furlong Shava Lawson Britt Le Erin Miller Sean Watts
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