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.
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.