Oakland Parks Coalition

Lakeside Park offers amenities for all ages.

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

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SAVE THE DATES, VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES,
REPORTS, FUN THINGS TO DO!

Bancroft Median Spring Cleanup--A Keep Oakland Beautiful & OPC Event
Saturday, April 28, 8:30am-noon Register @ Verdese Carter Park, 98th Bancroft Avenue, Oakland
Come on down and help spruce up the Bancroft Median--litter pickup, pruning and spreading mulch. Bring water and gloves. Questions? Contact KOB.

Click here to view our 2011 annual report on park conditions.

Just in! Click here to see the OPC Annual Meeting Photo Montage

OPC Bancroft Median Workday a Huge Success.
Click here to see pix of 2011 cleanup.

Just in! Young stewards engineer and build flagstone path at their park. Click here to see photos.

Volunteer Opportunities
Would you like to help out with park or median beautification? Click here for some suggestions.