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This year, we raised over $488,000 at our 15th Annual Hats Off Luncheon! 🎉🙌💸 THANK YOU to all of our generous sponsors who celebrated together in #CincyParks across the city on October 1st in Art Deco style. These dollars will help us support accessible programming, restoring hiking trails, replacing playgrounds, planting trees, and much much more in YOUR @CincyParks. Learn more about the Luncheon 🔗LINK IN BIO🔗
On Saturday, the West End community celebrated the official groundbreaking for the Ezzard Charles statue in Laurel Park! 🥊 This statue and plaza will honor the life and legacy of World Heavyweight Boxing Champion and favorite son of Cincinnati’s West End, and will be erected in 2022. Learn more 🔗LINK IN BIO🔗
All the entries in this years #CincyBarks Contest are fur-bulous! 🐶😂 Dont forget to enter your pup before the deadline on October 30th! More info 🔗LINK IN BIO🔗 📷🐕 @ralphie_the_cincy_norwich
Whoa! ✨ Have you seen the beautiful new fountain sculpture in the Ault Park Gardens? It joins other pieces in @cincyparks by artist Marjorie Pease Applegate. Learn more about the sculpture on our website! 🔗Link in bio🔗
Year-round, there are more ways to engage in @CincyParks than many people realize. From cultural events to fitness classes and hikes for people of all abilities, park programming is open to everyone. 🌳🧘‍♀️💃 Learn more from the @Enquirer about special programming that we host in YOUR #CincyParks! 🔗Link in bio🔗
#GirlPower! 🌳✨ Jennifer H. Spieser, Executive Director of Cincinnati Parks Foundation and Kara Kish, Director of @CincyParks are speaking at @MadTreeBrewing Companys Ascending Women Series. Their talk on October 19, 2 (6:00PM – 7:30PM) will explore the importance of urban greenspaces and urban canopy for cities, and what the parks are doing to positively impact the environment and community. Tickets are $15, includes one beer and will benefit the Foundation. 🍻 🔗Get tickets in bio🔗
Join us in Laurel Park for #EzzFest on October 9 from 10am-2pm! The West End’s arts, athletics, and music festival celebrates Ezzard Charles’ legacy and this year will feature the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Ezzard Charles statue. 🥊🎉
🍁 Its officially #Fall which means its time to plan all your pumpkin carvings, chilly hikes, and spooky fun! 🎃🍂 @CincyParks has TONS of activities for you and the whole family this season! Check out the list and sign up today (many activities fill FAST)! 🔗LINK IN BIO🔗
When you support the Cincinnati Parks Foundation you are helping to restore hiking trails, build new playgrounds, protect historic structures, and much more. 💚 Show that you #LOVECincyParks and make a donation today! 🔗Link in bio 🔗
We had a blast in Burnet Woods last week with @MadTreeBrewing, hiking and picking up litter! Thank you to all of the volunteers who came out. YOU can attend the last #MadTree Hike in the series on September 25 from 11am-1pm at Caldwell Nature Center. Sign up with @CincyParks 🔗LINK IN BIO🔗
Enter our #CincyBARKS contest now through October 30. Each year we crown an (unofficial) doggie mascot for @cincyparks! PLUS you could win a custom poster of your dog. 🐕 1. Follow @Cincyparksfoundation on Instagram or Facebook 🐩 2. Take a photo of your dog in an official Cincinnati Park 🐕‍🦺 3. Post your photo with the hashtags*: #CINCYBARKS #LOVECINCYPARKS *Set posts at Public View. Dogs must be leashed where required. ✨ Tip: try to get a photo where your dogs face is visible AND include iconic #CincyParks imagery in the background! 📸 @cooper.beans
🥊✨ On Saturday, October 9, 2021 at 10am, join in celebration of the official groundbreaking for the Ezzard Charles statue honoring his life and legacy. The statue and plaza is to be erected and dedicated in Laurel Park in 2022. 🌳🎉🎈🥳 Following the groundbreaking ceremony, join the fun of the 4th Annual Ezz Fest—the arts, athletics, and music festival that celebrates Ezzard Charles’ contributions to the West End’s rich history. 🔗 LINK IN BIO 🔗
🌳 We are joining our good friends at @MadTreeBrewing for a series of community hikes and litter cleanups in the month of September. Sign up online to join a hike and we’ll see you out in YOUR @CincyParks for a day of fun and volunteerism! 🔗LINK IN BIO🔗 🍻 Drinking alcohol is not permitted in the parks but you are invited to visit the @MadTreeTaproom after your hike!
Have you heard of @CincyParks #FallReLeaf Program? 🍂 It was created in 1988 to provide shade trees for Cincinnati homeowners. #CincyParks has since given away nearly 20,000 trees and Cincinnati Parks Foundation has invested more than $350,000 into the program since it began. 💸 Go register for your FREE tree before they run out: 🔗LINK IN BIO🔗 Thank you to @MadTreeBrewing and @Macys for joining us in supporting this program! #MadTreeBrewing #MacysGives
Were excited to once again receive a 4-star rating from @CharityNav! This rating means weve taken steps to have strong financial health and accountability. When you donate to the Cincinnati Parks Foundation, you can rest assured that your gift was made to an honorable organization. 🔗LINK IN BIO🔗
Do you spot the 🐸? The Explore Nature (EN) staff at the @CincyParks are SO GOOD at inspiring wonder about the natural world! We are proud to have given over $28,000 in #grants to the EN team so far in 2021 to support their summer camps and educational programming.
Weve made conservation a core pillar of our mission by helping to plant thousands of trees in #Cincinnati, and by supporting restoration efforts and invasive species removal within @Cincyparks. 🌳🌱 Check the LINK IN BIO to see just a few of our recent environmental accomplishments!
Rounding out our week focused on the Hats Off Luncheon, we want to say THANK YOU to our two amazing Hats Off Luncheon Honorary Co-Chairs Sheila Simmons and Ellen Sole. Ellen is a Founding member of The Womens Committee, was an active Parks docent, and served on the CPF for 5 years. Shelia led the Sponsorship Committee for the namesake event, is also a Womens Committee member, and has served on the CPF Board for the last two years. We asked them about their time volunteering for the benefit of #CincyParks. “The last two years have been a drain on everyone. Yet, going to the Cincinnati Parks and seeing the smiles, activities, and family outings you realize we are all human, caught up in something beyond our control. But here in Parks is a place that provides a bit of normalcy, fun, and becomes an extension of our outdoor home,” said Sole. “As a Board member for the Cincinnati Parks Foundation, I’ve had the pleasure of spending time with some amazing people, all of whom have a genuine desire to make our parks a beautiful place for everyone to enjoy. I call the parks my place of peace and are where I go give thanks for my blessings and clear my head when life gets a little overwhelming. Co-Chairing this year’s Hat’s Off Luncheon was the pinnacle of service for a cause that is near and dear to my heart and my mental health,” said Simmons.
The Hats Off Luncheon is our largest fundraising event benefitting the sprawling @cincyparks system. 💸😊 #CincyParks touch all 52 neighborhoods within the city — that’s more than 130 parks and greenspaces where children explore nature and families come together. 🧺🌳 A place where concerts are enjoyed, and picnics are relished — of course! Learn more about the event: 🔗LINK IN BIO🔗
Each year, the Cincinnati Parks Foundation presents the Phyllis W. Smale Award at the Hats Off Luncheon to recognize outstanding achievement, inspiring #leadership, exemplary service, and creative vision in many areas related to #horticulture and city beautification. This year we honor Mary Jo Bazeley for #volunteerism, passion, and positive influence in @CincyParks. See the rest of her interview in the Hats Off Luncheon Video Special airing October 1, 2021. The last day to buy your HOL ticket is September 10, so dont wait! 🔗LINK IN BIO🔗
👒✨NEW THIS YEAR: Hats Off Luncheon guests will enjoy live entertainment at select @cincyparks throughout the city! 🎷🎺🎻 This lineup is the bees knees and ticket sales end September 10, so order your Hats Off ticket today! #HatsOffCincy is October 1, 2021. 🔗Get tickets and learn more about the performers: LINK IN BIO🔗 🎶 Ault Park Picnic Shelter: Ed “Sax” Thomas 🎶 Burnet Woods Bandstand: New Liberty Dance Orchestra 🎶 Mt. Echo Pavilion: The Flying Cloud Academy of Vintage Dance 🎶 Mt. Storm Shelter: Kathy Wade 🎶 Schmidlapp Event Lawn at Smale Riverfront Park: The Cincinnati POPS
Imagine a world with no public parks. 🤔😭 No thanks! 😍 Thankfully #Cincinnati is blessed with over 130 public @cincyparks and greenspaces. You can #LOVEcincyparks by making a donation today to invest in these shared treasures. 🔗LINK IN BIO🔗
We believe that the best people to program their own neighborhood park is the community members who live around and play in those parks. This is why we created the CPAC Grant program to support programming by Cincinnati Parks Advisory Councils across the city. 💸 Check out the list of new awardees 🔗LINK IN BIO🔗
♿ No matter the disability, we are making sure everyone has access to the outdoors. Cincinnati Parks Foundation’s special partnership with @Luke5Adventures and @cincyparks is making it possible for those with disabilities to safely enjoy the benefits of being outdoors like never before! Our next Everybody in Mt. Airy hike is September 11. Learn more or sign up: 🔗LINK IN BIO🔗
Do you have the cutest dog in the world? SHOW US! 😍 Enter our #CincyBARKS contest now through October 30. Each year we crown an (unofficial) doggie mascot for @cincyparks! PLUS you could win a custom poster of your dog. 🐕 1. Follow @Cincyparksfoundation on Instagram or Facebook 🐩 2. Take a photo of your dog in an official Cincinnati Park 🐕‍🦺 3. Post your photo with the hashtags*: #CINCYBARKS #LOVECINCYPARKS *Set posts at Public View. Dogs must be leashed where required. ✨ Tip: try to get a photo where your dogs face is visible AND include iconic #CincyParks imagery in the background!

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