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Friends of Patterson Park raises 246% of Amplify Austin Goal

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CONGRATULATIONS!  Because of your generous donations, Friends of Patterson Park raised $7,425 during Amplify Austin. Thank you so much for your tremendous support and generosity during Amplify Austin Day 2021! We set a modest goal and blew past it. 

It’s been a hard year for so many, and we’ve come to depend on our public parks like never before. Together, the Friends of Patterson Park can bring updates and new amenities to our 80 year old neighborhood park so that people from around East Austin and the city can get the most out of this treasured green space.  We are truly grateful for your support and can’t wait to gather in person to celebrate with our park community this fall.   

We could not have done this without each and every single one of you!   

APF Grant Funds New Backstop at Patterson Park

New Backstop for Baseball Field Funded by Austin Parks Foundation Grant

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We are thrilled to announce that Friends of Patterson park has received a $5,000 ACL Music Festival Grant from the Austin Parks Foundation to replace the baseball field backstop. The new backstop will have a clamshell to protect neighbors, walkers, and cars in the Genesis Parking lot.

This is part of the improvements to the park’s athletic facilities that our group began planning in spring 2019, addressing the next community priority in our neighborhood park plan. Other elements of this project are seating behind the backstop for players, family and friends, and new backboards, youth baskets and a shade structure at the basketball court. A grant for the remainder of the project is under review by the City of Austin’s Neighborhood Partnering Program this spring.

We are so grateful for the continued support of APF, as well as the friends, neighbors and business sponsors who supported our fundraising campaign during Amplify Austin in 2020. We will be using funds raised last year to pay for our match and complete the installation of the backstop. We couldn’t have done this without Nature’s Treasures, Franklin Barbecue, Mueller Foundation, Jade Construction, Cherrywood Coffeehouse, Erin Tassoulas Design + Build and Cherrywood Neighborhood Association.

  • Damaged backstop at Patterson Park, 2019.
  • Allied backstop drawing
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FOPP Raises $14,940 during Amplify Austin 2020

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A team of Friends of Patterson Park worked together during the 2020 Amplify Austin campaign, and raised a total of $7,470. We had 65+ individual donors and sponsorships from seven neighborhood businesses and organizations. To top it all off, the Austin Parks Foundation generously matched our total raised 100%, so that we bringing home $14,940 to put toward future park improvement projects and community building events! We are overwhelmed with joy and gratitude at the outpouring of support!

A huge thanks to our Amplify Patterson sponsors Nature’s Treasures, Franklin Barbecue, Mueller Foundation, Jade Construction, Cherrywood Coffeehouse, Erin Tassoulas Design + Build and Cherrywood Neighborhood Association for pledging $2,750 to our campaign. We couldn’t have done this without you!

FOPP raises $14,940 during Amplify Austin 2020

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Amplify Patterson Campaign is TODAY!

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WOW! Thanks to support from our neighbors and community sponsors, we have already raised over 90% of our $5,000 Amplify Patterson goal! Let’s see if we can make our stretch goal of $7,000 by 6 p.m., when  Amplify Austin Day wraps up.

Your tax-deductible gift to Friends of Patterson Park will have TWICE the impact thanks to Austin Parks Foundation, who will match all Amplify Austin donations.

This is our most ambitious Amplify goal ever, and will help us work on big projects like repairs and additions to our athletic facilities. We want Patterson Park to be an even more welcoming destination for our East Austin neighbors to play, enjoy the outdoors, and get healthy physical activity.

Thank you for your support and generosity throughout the year! If you haven’t donated yet, please give what you can at http://bit.ly/AmplifyPatterson2020

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​A HUGE thanks to our Amplify Patterson sponsors Nature’s Treasures, Franklin Barbecue, Mueller Foundation, Jade Construction, Cherrywood Coffeehouse, Erin Tassoulas Design + Build and Cherrywood Neighborhood Association for pledging $2,750 to our campaign. With your help, we can make it to $7,000!

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One Week to Amplify Patterson Park

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Amplify Austin starts in one week! This 24 hour fundraiser showers TLC on more than 700 amazing organizations working in Central Texas. Will you make a pledge to amplify our neighborhood park? You can help Friends of Patterson Park make it into an even more welcoming destination for East Austin neighbors to play, exercise, and enjoy the outdoors.

Our goals for this year are to repair and add to our athletic facilities, and to keep building community connections through social events at the park. How can you help us AMPLIFY PATTERSON?

  1. Donate now! Early donations have begun at https://www.amplifyatx.org/p2p/125447/friends-of-patterson-park.

  2. Give during Amplify Austin — from 6pm on March 5 to 6pm on March 6.

  3. Share the link with your friends and encourage them to match your donation!

We are so grateful for the support of businesses and organizations in our neighborhood!  Nature’s Treasures, Franklin Barbecue, Mueller Foundation, Jade Construction, Cherrywood Coffeehouse, and Erin Tassoulas Design + Build have already pledged to match individual donations. And on top of that, Austin Parks Foundation has offered a 100% match of our Amplify Austin Day fundraising! What that means is that every dollar you contribute will be matched 2:1. AMAZING!

Thanks for being a part of our park community.

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Make Your Impact During Amplify Patterson

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Friends of Patterson Park has been caring for our neighborhood park since 2002, and we have big plans for 2020! Our Amplify goal is to raise $5,000 so that we can continue making improvements to our park and supporting community events that bring neighbors together.

In 2019 we hosted eight community events, including a Pride Picnic, Easter Egg Hunt, and a celebration of that year’s playground expansion and park improvements. We also partnered with the Austin Parks Foundation on two volunteer work days to mulch our heritage oak trees and plant new trees.

Our goals for this year are to repair and add to our athletic facilities, and to keep strengthening community connections. This year, the Austin Parks Foundation has generously offered to a 100% match of the total funds we raise, so your support will go even further.  Schedule your Amplify Austin donation today!

Patterson Park Illustration by Caitlin B. Alexander

Illustration by Caitlin B. Alexander

Amplify Patterson Park

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Share your love for Patterson by donating to Friends of Patterson Park during Amplify Austin Day. We are raising 💰 for community events and park improvement projects. You can help us make park dreams a reality!

DONATE TO Amplify Patterson

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Amplify Austin is a community-wide day of online giving to our city’s nonprofit organizations. It starts February 28 at 6:00 p.m. and ends March 1 at 6:00 p.m. Join us for an ice cream party at the pavilion Friday 4–6p.m. to wrap up our campaign! 🍦

Your donations will be matched 100% by our generous neighborhood business sponsors, and the Austin Parks Foundation will provide an additional 25% match of the first $2500.

Amplify Patterson business sponsors

Tito’s Vodka will add $5 to every donation that uses #LoveTitos in the check out form to support our fiscal sponsor, the Austin Parks Foundation.

Patterson Pool party Aug18

Patterson Piranha Swim Team Raises Funds to Replace Trees

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The summer swim seasonat Patterson Pool was a lot of fun, and we are so grateful the pool opened after only a 2 day delay when a tree fell on the pool’s pump the day before it was scheduled to open and damaged it. A HUGE THANKS to the Patterson Piranha Swim Team families, who raised $700 to plant shade trees surrounding the pool to replace the four that have been lost in recent years. FoPP held an end-of-summer ice cream party on August 18, and many neighbors came out to enjoy our pool before it closed until 2019 and eat ice as much melty ice cream as they could. See you at the pool next summer!

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2018 End of Summer Pool Party. Photos by J. Potter-Miller/FoPP.

Baseball diamond imrovements at Patterson Park. Photo by J. Potter-Miller/FoPP.

September 6 Friends of Patterson Park Meeting

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Join Friends of Patterson Park for a discussion of current and proposed projects and refreshments. We’ve got a lot to talk about but will keep things moving quickly.

Thursday, Sept. 6 @ 8-9pm
Sour Duck, 1814 E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd

1) Welcome and introductions (5 mins.)

2) Update on Austin Parks Foundation Community Grant and next steps on playground project: Jennifer PM (10 mins.)

3) Update on Neighborhood Partnering Program grant application: Jennifer PM (5 mins.)

4) CherryWoodstock Music and Art Festival: Jeremy Klitzman, Organizer (10 mins.)

5) Tree and Butterfly Party (held in parallel to Oct. 27 Family Arbor and Monarch Appreciation Day at the Zilker Botanical Garden): Kathleen Mannello, Austin Parks Foundation (10 mins.)

6) Proposed improvements to baseball field: Seth Kessler, Cap City Cobras (10 mins.)

7) Proposed tree planting & shade sails with funds raised by Patterson swim team: Dusty Harshman, Patterson Piranhas (10 mins.)

New playground equipment. Source: Whirlix.

Patterson Park Playground is Expanding

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By Jennifer Potter-Miller
Originally published in the August 2018 issue of The Flea

Friends of Patterson Park (FoPP) received a $50,000 ACL Music Festival Community Grant from the Austin Parks Foundation in June, which will support the construction of new playground equipment and park seating—addressing playground improvements, the number-one goal in our Neighborhood Park Plan.

The project, a collaboration with Austin Department of Parks and Recreation, Urban Patchwork, and Landscape Structures, includes a circular monkey bar and two spinners. New benches will be placed under the park’s oak trees, and small boulders will be grouped to form natural play elements and extra seating. Matching funds raised by the neighboring community during Amplify Austin will be instrumental in executing the improvements. FoPP is tremendously grateful to all the neighbors and neighborhood businesses who have supported its fundraising!

FoPP’s grant application to the City of Austin’s Neighborhood Partnering Program is currently under consideration. This grant would allow for updating park furnishings and making trail improvements.

In June, Patterson Park held a screening of How to Train Your Dragon, part of the Movies in the Park series hosted by Austin Parks Foundation, Alamo Drafthouse, and other sponsors. More than 250 people enjoyed the charming animated movie and food trucks on the lawn. Upcoming events include an End of Summer Pool Party (Aug. 18), National Night Out (Oct. 2), It’s My Park Day (Nov. 3) and CherryWoodstock (Nov. 10).

FoPP plans to wrap up the installation of the playground addition at It’s My Park Day 2018, and would love the help of all park lovers! To get involved, follow FoPP on Facebook or email fopp.atx@gmail.com.

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