1. $7000 grant received! The FOOHP board is pleased to announce that the Park has received a $7,000 grant to replace the gates and fences on Orianna and Poplar Streets, to match the gate and fence on the 3rd Street side. We are thrilled, as this upgrade is sorely needed. We applied for $13,546, the amount of the estimate for the project, from the Penn Treaty Special Services District, a nonprofit set up to accept and distribute funds from SugarHouse Casino to some of the neighborhoods who will be most impacted by the casino, and were awarded $7,000.
2. Save the Date: June 12, 2010 (6-10pm) Fundraiser. To help raise more money to ensure we can complete the fencing project, we are having a fundraising party on Saturday, June 12, 2010 (from 6-10pm) at the Northern Liberties Community Center at 3rd & Fairmount. Please mark your calendar and save the date.
We also need your help! As many of you know, this annual event, envisioned and spearheaded in past years by Walt Gilpin, is an important money maker for the Park. This year, we are thrilled to have the help of those of you who signed up for our new Events & Fundraising Committee, to help plan this event (everyone who designated this committee as their first choice was assigned to the committee and should have already been contact by its Chair, Anne Waginger (awaginger@aol.com). If you have not, or want to volunteer to help plan the event/switch to this committee, please email FOOHP2010@gmail.com and awaginger@aol.com).
The raffle portion of the party is always very popular. We’re approaching local businesses for gift certificates and we’re counting on the artists and business people among you, whose unique offerings have helped make the raffle a huge success in the past. Please let Anne know if you can help with this.
3. Check out our new website. We’ve been slowly re-vamping our website over the last few months. If you haven’t had a chance, stop by to check it out. Monthly Board meeting minutes are now available for viewing on our “Downloadable Docs” page!
