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The Playground Initiative is a joint venture of the Neighborhood
Parks Council (NPC) and the San Francisco Recreation and Parks
Department (RPD). This initiative focuses specifically on upgrading the
26 playgrounds that were identified as "failing" in the 2008 NPC Playground Report Card(http://www.sfnpc.org/playgroundreportcard2008) ,
published in April of 2008. Although failed playgrounds still have
value as recreational play spaces, they require increased adult
supervision and maintenance attention because they are not as safe as
we would like them to be. Through community workdays and stewardship,
the Initiative works towards ensuring that children can play and
exercise safely outside, especially in lower-income neighborhoods where
parks are often the only outdoor play spaces.

This initiative
will help all neighborhoods, regardless of income; to promote healthy
exercise among children who are facing an epidemic of health problems
related to increased weight and decreased physical activity.

MISSION
The
Playground Initiative will either renovate selected playgrounds with
improved features or replace them entirely. The worst playgrounds will
be upgraded to a ‘useable and safe’ level over the course of the
Initiative.

The Playground Initiative will also build strong
partnerships with the community and the Recreation and Park Department
to ensure playgrounds are valued, protected, and improved to foster
safe places for children to play in their own neighborhood.

The Playfields
Stewardship Initiative is a partnership between the Neighborhood Parks
Council (NPC), City Fields Foundation (CFF), and the Recreation and
Parks Department (RPD) that aims to ensure community enjoyment of
newly-installed synthetic turf fields, and to maximize the life
expectancy of these fields. This is accomplished by organizing
sustainable park stewardship groups, which host park cleanups, meetings
about playfield concerns, and community-building events.

The Neighborhood Parks Council (NPC) seeks to create a “green” corridor, called the Blue Greenway(http://www.bluegreenway.org/) ,
for activity and discovery along the Southeast shore of San Francisco.
The trail, while connecting the existing parks from McCovey Park to
Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, will fulfill San Francisco’s
Southeastern portion of the larger, Association of Bay Area Government
(ABAG)-sponsored Bay Trail project. The trail will provide a
much-needed alternative transportation opportunity that is easily
accessible for exercise, recreation and enjoyment of art and open space
in the City’s park-poor Southeastern Corridor.