Tips on Getting Involved
- Host or attend a community meeting in your neighborhood. Talk to your neighbors about your parks and get people interested and involved.
- Write a letter to the editor or Compass piece in the Anchorage Daily News
- Participate in online forums or blogs that engage the public on important community issues
- Write a letter to your Assembly person or State Legislators if you are concerned about specific parks
- Start an Adopt-a-Park group or join an existing one
- Get friends together to do a park clean up or other event
- Spend time in your neighborhood parks. Positive community use of parks discourages negative use of parks
- Join TrailWatch or become a Trail Ambassador
- Take a greenhouse tour and talk to the horticulturalists about volunteering (for information, please visit www.muni.org/parks)
- Take responsibility for a flower bed in your neighborhood
- Organize a community group to apply for an Anchorage Park Foundation Challenge Grant
- Apply for community grants (for example, REI)
- Check the Anchorage Park Foundation website often for news on projects and programs. Sign up for quarterly enewsletters to keep informed
- Become a “friend” of the Anchorage Park Foundation on Facebook
- Participate in the public process. Attend Parks and Recreation Commission meetings and Assembly meetings and use the public comment period to express your point of view
- Circulate petitions or support legislation and projects that will improve Anchorage parks
- Report graffiti in your park to Graffiti Busters at 343-4663 (343-GONE)
THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO ANCHORAGE PARKS!!