Three BPFP member projects receive UCB Chancellor’s grants

Three Berkeley Partners for Parks partner groups will be taking big steps forward thanks to funding from the UC Berkeley’s Chancellor’s Community Partnership Fund. The fund provides about $250,000 a year in grants to nonprofits that partner with UC Berkeley faculty, staff, or student groups on projects in Berkeley.

In the most recent round, Friends of Ohlone Park (FOOP) received $5000 to work with the UC Botanical Garden to enhance the Ohlone Journey mural that covers BART’s vent building in Ohlone Park, adding a border of native plants, rocks, and art.

Ohlone Park Mural
Ohlone Park mural

Schoolhouse Creek Common received $5000 to work with the Berkeley Project’s student volunteers to repair and enhance the community-built and -maintained park, play area, and native plant garden at Curtis and Virginia, next to the Berkeley Adult School.

The Turtle Island Fountain Project received $5000 to work with the College of Environmental Design and Professor Walter Hood to revitalize the Civic Center Park fountain with a long-envisioned monument to Berkeley’s original indigenous communities.

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Dec. 4 Panel on Native American History and Wisdom

Four highly accomplished Ohlone cultural practitioners join with three of Berkeley’s most knowledgeable scholars and historians to discuss “Native Berkeley: Ancient Wisdom for Troubled Times,” 2 PM Sun., Dec. 4, 2016, at the North Berkeley Senior Center, MLK at Hearst. The event is sponsored by BPFP partner group Friends of Ohlone Park (FOOP). Continue reading “Dec. 4 Panel on Native American History and Wisdom”