BPFP Affiliate Groups
Affiliate groups bring together concerned neighbors and park users who want to take responsibility for improving specific parks, community gardens, or public landscaping. Working in partnership with City staff when appropriate, citizen volunteers participate in a wide range of activities, from weeding, cleaning, and helping with ongoing maintenance to generating community participation in planning and implementing new park projects.
If you work with a group whose information needs updating, please contact us.
- Friends of Aquatic Park
- See more information about Dreamland for Kids playground.
- Aquatic Park EGRET
- EGRET’s volunteers tend native coastal plantings to improve the tidal wetlands for wildlife habitat and also lead walks of the bayshore park’s natural and cultural history. www.egretpark.org
- Berkeley Community Gardening Collective
- The Berkeley Community Gardening Collaborative brings together diverse members of the community around a common commitment to urban agriculture and access to healthy food for all residents of Berkeley.
- Berkeley Path Wanderers Association
- Dedicated to the creation, preservation and restoration of public paths, steps and walkways in Berkeley for the use and enjoyment of all. www.berkeleypaths.org
- Butterfly Gardeners Association
- The Butterfly Gardeners Association has spread its wings and grown into a nationwide organization. Visit their web site at www.butterflyspirit.org.
- Friends of César Chávez
- Friends of Dorothy Bolte
- East Bay Labyrinth Project
- The East Bay Labyrinth Project is a group of volunteers preparing to install a permanent 11-circuit stone labyrinth at the Berkeley Marina. www.eastbaylabyrinthproject.org
- Friends of Five Creeks
- Friends of Five Creeks is an all-volunteer, hands-on group that seeks to protect and restore the watersheds North Berkeley, Albany, Kensington, and south El Cerrito and Richmond (Schoolhouse, Codornices,Village, Marin, Middle, and Cerrito Creeks, including tributaries such as Blackberry Creek). www.fivecreeks.org
- Friends of Halcyon Commons
- Halcyon Commons is a community-designed and initiated park dedicated in the summer of 1996 in a South Berkeley neighborhood to the southwest of the Ashby-Telegraph intersection.
- HopPer Commons Association
- The HopPers Commons Association offers beautiful and peaceful meeting places in its three thriving community gardens for residents of Berkeley and the surrounding communities.
- Friends of Grove Park
- Friends of John Hinkel Park
- Friends of King Courts
- Friends of King Park
- Volunteer group striving to enhance King School Park on Hopkins Street in North Berkeley with a mural, Bay Friendly landscaping, increased play value and safety.
- Los Amigos de Codornices
- Ohlone Commons
- A grassroots team of neighbors and volunteer professionals collaborating to transform the Westbrae section of the Ohlone Greenway. The narrow pedestrian and bicycle thoroughfare is gradually becoming a linear neighborhood commons by providing opportunities for neighbors and visitors to socialize around the art installations and outdoor seating areas.
- Friends of Ohlone Park
- Pillars of Our Community
- Pillars of Our Community is continuing to collect to restore the Pillars at Ashby and College.
- Poetry Garden at Arts Magnet
- Friends of the Rose Garden
- Friends of San Pablo Park
- Friends of Shorebird Nature Center
- The Shorebird Park Nature Center is the home of the Berkeley Marina Experience programs which consist of the Adventure Playground, The Straw bale Visitors Center and classroom. We provide environmental education, docent training, The Berkeley Bay Festival and the International Shoreline clean-up.
- Friends of 63rd Street Mini-park
- Friends of Strawberry Creek
- The mission of Friends of Strawberry Creek is to restore, protect and improve Strawberry Creek from the Berkeley hills to the San Francisco Bay, bringing to Berkeley the pleasures of a healthy aquatic and riparian ecology benefiting both people and the natural environment. www.strawberrycreek.org
- Friends of Terrace View Park
- Terrace View Park is a small neighborhood park between Fairlawn and Queens Way in the Berkeley hills.
- Thousand Oaks Park Society
- Friends of Totland
- United Pool Council
- The United Pool Council is a group of public pool swimmers whose mission is to keep the neighborhood pools public, well maintained, and well used. We are committed to making the health and fitness benefits of swimming available to all Berkeley citizens, and lessons available to all youth regardless of income, skill or fitness level.
- University Avenue Gardeners
- The group is supporting a permanent native garden on University Avenue to be maintained by the City.
- Friends of Willard Park
- Young Artists Workspace
- The primary goal of YAWS is to provide the City’s children with a dynamic art center where they can increase their knowledge of various visual art techniques, develop an appreciation of art from many cultures, and have the chance to exhibit their own artwork. www.youngartistsworkspace.org
February 25th, 2010 Web Weaver
