The Parks Foundation mobilizes financial and sweat equity support to ensure a thriving and accessible parks system for a healthier, more liveable and sustainable today and tomorrow.
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Vital Parks Programs
The programs we support lead to well-being, personal enrichment, and life-long learning. We offer ways for you to put your stamp on elements of the park system’s 13,573 precious acres, including 270 parks and open spaces, golf courses, beaches, and miles of greenways, trails, and waterways.
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Events
Annual Tamiami Park Dance Contest
Annual Tamiami Park Dance Contest Tamiami Park July 13 Partnership: Miami-Dade Parks Summer Camp Miami-Parks summer camps programs will compete against each other in the annual Tamiami Park Dance Cont...
Annual Tamiami Park Dance Contest
District 11 – Commissioner Martinez
Publications
- Keep Kids on Track during after school hours with Miami-Dade Parks Fit2Play™
It’s 3 p.m. The school bell rings. Now what?
For a majority of the nation’s youth, the hours from the time school lets out to the moment families are reunited are becoming a period of loneliness and boredom. The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, points out that juvenile violence peaks in the after ... - The Value of Parks
The iconic components of most major cities are found in their parks. Central Park in New York, Chicago’s Millennium Park, Boston Manor Park in Boston and San Francisco’s Golden State Park, to name a few. What these cities knew early on was that not only do these parks transform their city’s skyline, but they also ...
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- Gibraltar Private Field Study Scholarship Program grants 180 Miami-Dade students a visit to the Deering Estate
Gibraltar Private Field Study Scholarship Program grants 180 Miami-Dade students a visit to the Deering Estate - ArtCare Conservation Lecture Series at the Deering Estate
The Deering Estate is proud to present the first program in a lecture series on Thursday, November 16th from 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. with partner ArtCare Miami. The lecture is presented by ArtCare Director Rustin Levenson who will discuss her book, “Seeing Through Paintings” (Yale University Press). The book describes using the materials and techniques ...
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