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Oakland
Parks Coalition, a volunteer organization in Oakland, California, recognizes the importance of public parks to the health
and well-being of urban dwellers and has worked since 2001 to promote stewardship as a means to improving the quality of Oakland's
parks.
Choose among three easy ways to help keep Oakland
parks healthy and beautiful:
1. Survey parks on Love Your Parks Day.
Click here for event details.
2. Become a park steward and take the Park Steward Pledge.
Click here
3. Join the Oakland Parks Coalition.
Click here
Urban parks contribute to the vitality of communities
in various ways:
♥ Helping youth to build physical, intellectual, emotional, and social strengths;
♥
Helping
residents improve their health by providing a place to enjoy fresh air and exercise;
♥ Helping to build community through working together and playing together;
♥ Lowering crime-when youth are off the street engaged in after school recreation programs crime
takes a holiday.