To commemorate 40 years of building community parks, SPARK School Park Program today announced a $10 million campaign to build 40 school parks in four years in the Greater Houston area, including 20 new and 20 “reSPARK’ed” parks.
Houston Endowment announced Aug. 22 an $8 million grant toward planting trees and enhancing green space in some of Houston's hottest neighborhoods. The grant is being provided to the Houston Parks Board and the nonprofit Trees for Houston.
Houston Endowment is boosting its efforts when it comes to reducing Houston’s “urban heat islands” — a term used to describe strips of concrete and cement with no trees in sight — with $8 million in funding to two local partners.
Houston Endowment gives $8 million to Houston Parks Board and Trees For Houston to increase access to great neighborhood parks and build tree canopy in areas where the urban “heat island” effect is most pronounced.
Supported by lead grants from Houston Endowment and Kinder Foundation, SPARK, the Houston-based nonprofit organization that transforms public school playgrounds into community parks for out-of-school time use, has successfully introduced 25 new parks and updated, or ‘re-SPARKed,’ five at campuses across 12 independent school districts and three charter schools since 2016.
Houston Endowment announced this week that it has awarded a $10 million grant to the Buffalo Bayou Partnership to accelerate three key projects of a master plan for the bayou’s east sector that will spread the green space wealth.