Prospect Park Association - Give to the Max 2024

Prospect Park Association needs your support!

Why Give? Help PPA provide support to community members who improve our neighborhood through projects and activities, such as:

* Traffic-calming measures so children can play safely near Pratt School (PPA’s Transportation Committee).

* Climate action and resilience plan successfully reducing fossil fuel use in our neighborhood (PPA’s Environment Committee).

* Successfully advocated for $350,000 in city funding to repair stairs, lighting, etc. inside the Witch’s Hat Tower so it can reopen to the public (Tower repairs are tentatively scheduled to be complete by April 2025). PPA collaborated with Ward 2 Council Member Robin Wonsley, BF50 Indigenous Health, & others. The City Council unanimously approved funding (PPA’s Tower Hill Park Committee).

* Jackson Family Days at Pratt School & community events in collaboration with Jackson Family members and Pratt PTO, funded by U of M’s Good Neighbor Fund, PPCLF, NCR City of Minneapolis, Pratt PTO, and PPA (PPA’s Jackson Family Project Committee).

* Re-established PPA’s Tower Hill Park Committee to advocate for the park and tower and plan public events at the Tower after it reopens in April 2025.

* Planted a new garden in front of the University Ave Post Office, funded by PPCLF (PPA’s Environment Committee).

* Held bi-monthly PPA meetings and co-sponsored community meetings to give neighbors a voice- worked with partners such as BF50 Indigenous Health, Ward 2 Council Member Robin Wonsley’s office, MPD’s 2 nd Precinct Inspector, local businesses, Crime Prevention and others.

* Collaborated with “Surly Gives A Damn” (SGAD) to fund a raised bed community donation garden in the Prospect Park neighborhood (funded by U of M Good Neighbor Fund through PPA).

* Educated renters about their rights and distributed voter registration information in collaboration with Ward 2.

* Keeping neighbors informed through public meetings and newsletters.

* Organized annual yard sale across the Prospect Park Neighborhood (PPA’s Environment Committee).

* Supported Prospect Park’s Ice Cream Social and Picnic, held June 2024.

Please also consider volunteering to serve on PPA’s Board or a Committee!

Founded in 1901, PPA’s mission is to promote, in a non-partisan, educational and cooperative manner, the health, safety and general welfare of the neighborhood and to promote the maintenance and improvement of the aesthetic, residential and physical qualities of the neighborhood environment. PPA is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. If you prefer to give by check, our mailing address is: PPA, PO Box 141095, Minneapolis, MN 55414.

Thank you! 

Lynn Von Korff, Treasurer, Prospect Park Association