Two Programs to Help You Keep Your Neighborhood and Park Clean and Beautiful

 

Attractive and clean parks help create safe and healthy neighborhoods.

 

The Oakland Parks Coalition Park Stewardship program and the City of Oakland's Adopt-A-Spot both provide support to neighbors who are working to keep their parks and neighborhoods beautiful. To get the most help with your efforts to improve your neighborhood park, sign up for both!

 

If you sign up for the Park Stewardship program of the Oakland Parks Coalition, you can find out about other volunteers in your park and share ideas with other Park Stewards from around the City. The OPC will provide a "tool kit" of resources to assist you in organizing your neighborhood and can help you get information from city government or find the right person to talk to about a question or problem. The Park Stewardship program also provides a forum for bringing your concerns to the City. OPC will provide you with updates about actions the City of Oakland is planning or taking.

 

It's easy to participate, just complete the Stewardship Pledge and commit to the level of action you are comfortable with, whether it is to monitor the park and report problems, to pick up litter, or, to go a step further and organize community clean-up days and activities. We hope you will also commit to taking the OPC survey of your park in the fall of each year. Surveys are used to report the state of park maintenance to the City and help OPC advocate for park funding. Check out the Stewardship Pledge and sign-up today!

 

The other resource for neighborhood volunteers is the Adopt-A-Spot program of Keep Oakland Clean and Beautiful. This City of Oakland program can help you and your neighbors play an ongoing role in maintaining an area that needs a little extra attention. Pick a park and the City will loan you tools, gloves, and orange safety vests and will arrange for garbage pickup after clean-up events. You can also coordinate activities with city maintenance staff. The City can also connect you to groups or individuals looking for volunteer opportunities who may want to work in your park.

 

Adopt-A-Spot participants make a one-year commitment to regularly care for their park. This can include picking up trash, removing graffiti, removing weeds, or seasonal planting, watering, or pruning shrubs. Sign-up today to get the support you need to keep your neighborhood beautiful.

 

Be a partner with the Oakland Parks Coalition and the City of Oakland and have an active and ongoing role in cleaning, greening and maintaining your neighborhood, parks, and creeks.