2015 Annual Report WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE

Minneapolis Parks Foundation 2015 Annual Report WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE

2015 Annual Report DIRECTORS’ LETTER

Dear Friends,

IN 1872, the noted landscape architect Horace Cleveland made Equity and innovation are community values the Parks his frst speech to the civic leaders of Minneapolis, laying out Foundation advanced in 2015 through our Next Generation a vision for the Twin Cities’ parks so compelling that the out- of Parks™ Lecture Series, which included inspiring conversa- lines are now indelibly drawn into our shared sense of place. tions with creative placemakers Gil Penalosa, founder of the From the Grand Rounds biking trails that make Minneap- 8-80 Cities movement; Roger Cummings of Juxtaposition Arts olis one of the world’s great cycling cities, to our walkable and Kristine Miller and Tom Fisher of the University of Chain of Lakes, to the natural gorges and gathering spaces of Minnesota College of Design; and landscape designer Kate Minnehaha Falls, the foundation for nearly everything that Orff, winner of the 2014 Buckminster Fuller Institute Chal- sets our park system apart was set in motion 140 years ago. lenge. Civic-minded discussions with these thought leaders At that moment in history, fewer than one in 10 people on remind us of the powerful role that parks play in building Ithe planet lived in a city—yet these prescient urban planners community health, economic vitality, and the sense of owner- and business leaders anticipated a future when that ratio ship and belonging that give residents roots. We share the would be reversed, and the parkways and green spaces they Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board’s founding vision for sketched would be more than mere amenities, but essential a future in which everyone in our city lives within walking to our civic life. distance of a safe and vibrant public park—a goal we support- ed in 2015 through the grants to neighborhood park projects A century later, the future they predicted is upon us. As our you see on these pages. built environment grows more urban and the pace of life picks up, Minneapolis’s thriving public parks provide a refuge from Just as we were given a gif by those who created our park screens and schedules, and wide-open spaces that invite 21.4 system 140 years ago, now it is our turn to give inspiration, million visits each year, welcoming people from every walk voice and resources to ensure our system of parks and public of life. Our parks provide the common ground that draws our realm serves the next century. We see our work at the Minne- communities together, and drives our quality of life. apolis Parks Foundation as part of a true public parks renais- sance, as we reconsider how shared spaces from sidewalks to This is why we are pleased to share the important progress greenways can also provide paths to opportunity for all of our the Minneapolis Parks Foundation made in 2015, committing residents. Your confdence in our work and your generous to a new strategic plan that will focus our philanthropic in- support is making it possible. Thank you! vestment and private sector resources over the next fve years. The Parks Foundation embraces this once-in-a-generation op- Sincerely, portunity to establish a continuous public riverfront along the Mississippi River. We are proud to be the lead philanthropic partner behind the RiverFirst Initiative, launching a capital campaign to leverage private support for two high-priority projects—Water Works and the 26th Ave N Trail Link & Pier.

Though the chance to rediscover the Mississippi is certainly compelling, this $15 million campaign is also driven by the Parks Foundation’s mission to ensure that every improvement of the Minneapolis parks system is made with a spirit that values equitable access for all of our city’s residents, and an innovative approach to everything from community engagement to implementation and sustainability. Tom Evers Sarah Harris Executive Director Board Chair

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TURNING ON THE FUN: Kids in Near North Minneapolis wanted play bubblers included among wading pool improvements at Bethune Park, but the extra pool features weren’t in the budget.

PHOTOS: © MINNEAPOLIS PARK & RECREATION BOARD & RECREATION PHOTOS: © MINNEAPOLIS PARK Your contributions to the Minneapolis Parks Foundation made it possible to provide for fun new water features now making a big splash at Bethune Park.

DIVING IN: In 2015, the Parks Foundation made a grant to support the Minneapolis Swims effort to turn the Phillips Aquatics Center into a state-of-the art competitive swimming and diving facility with a robust learn-to-swim program. Located in the heart of Phillips—within walking distance of 50 K-12 schools—the new Aquatic Center will serve our city’s most racially and ethnically diverse neighborhood by reopening and revitalizing a community pool that’s been closed since 2008. PHOTO: © MINNEAPOLIS SWIMS

INVESTING IN NEIGHBORHOOD PRIDE: Leveraging private support for the public good is part of our mission at the Minneapolis Parks Foundation, which received a $100,000 donation for the future Northeast Recreation Center from long-time parks supporter Barbara Lupient.

“We can’t thank Barbara Lupient and the Lupient Family enough for their generous support of Northeast Park,” says Tom Evers, Executive Director of the Parks Foundation. “Their pride in the neighborhood where Mr. Lupient grew up and the family’s commitment to its long-term vitality is a model for philanthropic investment in our city’s parks.”

3 EQUITY AND INNOVATION In 2015, the Minneapolis Parks Foundation brought expertise and new community engagement strategies to advance a world-class park system

Safe, pedestrian-friendly streets, smart public transit, and responsive public offcials are all part of the mix when it comes to making Minneapolis more vibrant, but creative placemaker Gil Penalosa believes there’s one essential ingredient that can bind communities like no other. “The measure of a great Scity,” he says, “is how it treats its most vulnerable residents, the young, the old, the disabled and the poor— and this is seen in the availability of parks and other public spaces for everyone to use. An internationally recognized thought leader on the power of well-designed public spaces, Penalosa, the CEO and Founder of 8 80 Cities, visited Minneapolis in 2015 as the closing speaker of the Next Generation of Parks™ Lecture Series. It’s Building a model of rainwater reuse strate- just one of the programs the Minneapolis gies at Water Works is one of the projects Parks Foundation employs to advance Research Assistants in Practice Jonathan equity and innovation within the city’s Fillmore and Christopher Tallman took on world-class parks system. in 2015. (Not pictured: Kelly Watters)

“We want to keep advancing forward- thinking ideas that challenge us to think of-its kind effort differently about our city, not just in terms launched in 2015 of design and access, but also in terms to bring design of expanding our imagination about how expertise and we accomplish these goals together,” public sector know- says Tom Evers, executive director of how to making the the Minneapolis Parks Foundation. “As RiverFirst Initiative and a community, Minneapolis is great at a reality. MPF tapped the 26th Ave coming up with really big and bold award-winning N Trail Link & Pier. ideas. At the Parks Foundation, landscape architect “These are key Minneapolis we see ourselves serving and urban designer riverfront park initiatives that hold as a bridge that can move Bruce Chamberlain (left) to the power to transform, forever, the those plans from vision take on the inaugural two-year city’s embrace of its river corridor,” to implementation.” appointment, which will focus says Chamberlain, the immediate Another resource in that primarily on the design and past-Assistant Superintendent for strategy is the new Minneapolis implementation of RiverFirst Planning with the Minneapolis Park and Parks Fellow program, a frst- Initiatives including Water Works Recreation Board.

“I’ve learned that you need more than just the momentum of the community at large, you also need relationships on the ground level that can help align lots of groups toward the same goal.” —2015 Research Assistant Han Do

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the momentum of the community at large, you also need relationships on the ground level that can help align lots of groups toward the same goal. I’ve been very impressed by the Parks Foundation’s strong desire to make sure the parks are equitable and serve every community.”

Public spaces can only realize their full creative potential when every community is part of the process, says environmental designer Samuel Ero-Phillips: “Having Kate Orff kicked off the Next Generation city planning happen to you feels very of Parks™ Lecture Series in April 2015 different.” That’s why the Minneapolis with a discussion about urban design and Parks Foundation, with support from the climate dynamics. Minnesota Twins Community Fund, also initiated a new partnership with Ero- To support that work, the Minneapolis Phillips’ Environmental Design Studio Parks Foundation also continued its apprentices at Juxtaposition Arts to commitment to the Research Assistants create community engagement events in Practice program, an innovative around aligning future riverfront parks MPF joined forces with community part- partnership with the University of with north Minneapolis neighborhoods. ners, including The Loppet Foundation’s Minnesota Department of Landscape Anthony Taylor, to lead Gil Penalosa on Architecture that invites promising “As an architect, I’ve been very a cycling study of North Minneapolis’s graduate students to gain practical interested in fnding ways of connecting relationship to the Mississippi River. design skills while bringing a fresh communities of color to design, and perspective to public sector planning. making sure that design decisions start kayaks to look at that beautiful skyline, “Understanding the process of how refecting the needs of communities that and see the river in a way they may never park systems come together has been have been underserved traditionally,” have experienced it before. That’s a very valuable for my own training,” says Ero-Phillips says. “Instead of showing huge game-changer when you can teach 2015 Research Assistant Han Do. “I’ve people slideshows and drawings, we people not just what parks have been, but learned that you need more than just want to bring them out on the river in what they can be in the future.” ■

“Instead of showing people slideshows and drawings, we want to bring them out on the river in kayaks to look at that beautiful skyline, and see the river in a way they may never have experienced it before.” —Samuel Ero-Phillips, Environmental Design Studio Instructor, Juxtaposition Arts

5 A once-in-a-generation THE ROOTS OF opportunity to reconnect all of Minneapolis with RIVERFIRST the Mississippi River

Glimpsing St. Anthony Falls for the frst time from the deck of a steam boat, the history books claim milling pioneer Cadwallader Washburn let out a gasp. More than 150 years later, Minneapolis parks visitors can still experience the natural wonder that took his breath away. GThe heart-pounding roar of those 50-foot falls—the only major waterfalls for the entire length of the Mississippi—carried with it all the natural power it took to turn Minneapolis into the nation’s milling capital for more than a generation, transforming the region’s economic landscape in the process. “None of this would have been possible without the river,” says Ken Powell, CEO of General Mills, the global corporation built from the legacy of Washburn’s original Minneapolis Milling Co. “The river enabled opportunities to take our state, our people and our businesses to entirely new realms.”

The Mississippi River still has the power to transform the city—this time with a bold vision for parks called RiverFirst that will reclaim 11 miles of once-industrial riverfront and redefne how every community connects to its raw power and natural beauty. As General Mills marks its 150th anniversary in 2016, the company that began on the west side of the falls reinvested in those roots, with a $3 million capital contribution toward the RiverFirst Campaign. Their generous “birthday gift” is the lead corporate gift to a $15 million capital campaign aimed at putting the river’s natural resources to work for the next generation. The visionary project will reconnect North and Northeast Minneapolis communities to the river through the 26th Ave N Trail Link & Pier, recreate A sacred site to native peoples and a signifcant source of Minnesota’s Hall’s Island as a year-round park, and economic power, St. Anthony Falls has long been viewed as the centerpiece reimagine the soul of the city through Water of the city’s natural assets. MPF is helping to fulfll a 140-year vision, held by Works, a destination park that will provide a landscape designer Horace Cleveland and other parks visionaries, to create new gateway to the Mississippi River. a continuous riverfront park for all of Minneapolis.

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Water Works, a new destination park, will reveal and reactivate historic features from Minneapolis’s West River Trail Extension hard-working riverfront, reimagining the gatehouse that once powered the mill district. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY MINNESOTA ©

RiverFirst will connect 11 miles of once-industrial riverfront with the Grand Rounds and redefne how North and Northeast Minneapolis neighborhoods experience the Mississippi River.

“You have it in your power to convert its banks into the most attractive and most conspicuous ornament of the city, one that is entirely unique… a continuous park….of such picturesque character as no art could create and no other city can possess.” —Horace Cleveland RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY © 7 Rediscovering rivers is a 21st century urban planning trend embraced by cities from Chicago and Boston to Barcelona and London. But as Minneapolis parks historian David Smith points out, connecting every corner of the city through a continuous riverfront parks system was always part of the grand scheme outlined by landscape architect Horace Cleveland, who advised the Minneapolis Park Board during the formative years that the Mississippi River must be “placed in a setting worthy of so priceless a jewel.”

“Cleveland had been involved in early park movements in Boston, New York and Chicago, and he saw how diffcult it was to acquire land and create parks in developed cities. He saw that when those opportunities were gone, they really were gone forever,” says Smith. “That original vision has helped Minneapolis do a remarkable job of preserving and creating recreational spaces and to take advantage of historic opportunities when they come. Those early leaders were passionate about parks for their own sake and what parks can do to raise up the opportunities and aspirations for a community. I think that’s a legacy you can still see today.” ■

The future 26th Ave N Trail Link & Pier will have a big impact on North Minneapolis, creating new river views from a street level lighted pier (above), and convert- ing a portion of an existing rail bridge to connect park users and bike commuters from new North and Northeast Minneapolis greenways to Downtown. Once the terminus of the Grand Rounds, a realigned Ole Olson Park (cover) will complete the circle.

“We are delighted that General Mills’ $3 million contribution to this vital project will be joined by charitable contributions from a wide array of supporters and funders representing Minnesota’s private and public sectors, who share in the belief that this riverfront is one of our community’s greatest natural assets.” —Kim Nelson, Senior Vice President, External Relations, General Mills; and President, General Mills Foundation

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Horace Cleveland Circle Recognizing the signifcant contribution of donors who have made cumulative general operating support gifts of The following individuals, families, foundations and $50,000 or more. corporations gave generously to support the Minneapolis Sue Bennett Parks Foundation in 2015, through direct donations, cap- Julia Dayton Mary McCarthy and Brian Zelickson ital campaign pledges, and support for the Foundation’s Elizabeth Redleaf annual event. Your contributions make it possible for us Paul and Mary Reyelts Angus and Margaret Wurtele to help fulfll a 140-year vision to establish a continuous Next Generation Circle public Mississippi Riverfront and secure a world-class † Recognizing generous donors who have made a three- park system within walking distance of every resident of year commitment of $30,000 or more for operating support. Minneapolis. Thank you! RiverFirst Capital Campaign *A RiverFirst Capital contribution is included in this gift.

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STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES AND CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

For the Years Ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 2015 2014 Temporarily Unrestricted Total Total Restricted Support and Revenue Contributions $277,194 $414,060 $691,254 $792,245 RiverFirst Program Support 620,988 — 620,988 — Special Event Income (Net of Expenses 46,356 — 46,356 24,790 of $24,304 in 2015 and $13,727 in 2014) Government Grants 73,760 — 73,760 891 Miscellaneous Income 16,777 — 16,777 39 Net Assets Released from Restrictions: 372,783 (372,783) — Total Support and Revenue 1,407,858 41,277 1,449,135 817,965 Expense Program Services 511,837 — 511,837 408,389 Support Services: Management and General 160,374 — 160,374 81,260 Fundraising 143,763 — 143,763 75,099 Total Support Services 304,137 — 304,137 156,359 Total Expense 815,974 — 815,974 564,748 Change in Net Assets 591,884 41,277 633,161 253,217 Net Assets – Beginning of Year 338,700 344,917 683,617 430,400 Net Assets – End of Year $930,584 $386,194 $1,316,778 $683,617 11 Presorted U.S. Postage 4800 Minnehaha Avenue South ■ Minneapolis, MN 55417 PAID Permit No. 32078

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Board of Directors Tom Fisher, Secretary Thomas Pohlad Staff Christine Moir Director, Metropolitan President/COO, Carousel Annual Fund & Events Stuart Ackerberg, Jennifer Downham Design Center – Motor Group Manager Secretary Chief Development Offcer University of Minnesota – CEO, The Ackerberg Connie Remele* Minneapolis Parks Fellow College of Design Tom Evers Group Community Leader Bruce Chamberlain Executive Director Dayna Frank Mark Addicks* Paul Reyelts* 2015-2016 Research EVP/Co-Owner, Matt Karl Retired CMO, Retired CFO Assistants in Practice First Avenue Business & Administration General Mills Valspar Corp. Han Do Manager Joseph Gibbons Jonathan Fillmore Daniel Avchen* R.T. Rybak Senior Vice President – Janette Law Christopher Tallman Executive Director of CEO, The Minneapolis Wealth Management, Director of Kelly Watters Strategic Growth, Foundation Boyd, Bencini, Gibbons Communications & HGA Architects & & Associates – Merrill Tene Wells* Strategic Partnerships Engineers Lynch Global Wealth Principal Sue Bennett Management Tene Wells Consulting Community Leader Shawntera Hardy Frank Wilkinson Dorothy Bridges, Deputy Chief of Staff, Community Leader Treasurer State of Minnesota Riff Yeager Senior Vice President, Sarah Harris, Chair Partner, ERM Federal Reserve Bank of Managing Director, Minneapolis University of Minnesota Ex Offcio Foundation – Real Estate Robert Bruininks Meg Forney Advisors President Emeritus, Chair, Planning Committee, University of Minnesota Elizabeth Hawn Minneapolis Park Board of John Crosby Community Leader Commissioners Community Leader Steve King Jayne Miller Caren Dewar Chairman, Superintendent, Executive Director, Landscape Structures, Inc. Minneapolis Park & Urban Land Institute Recreation Board Mary McCarthy* Minnesota Minneapolis Ranked Community Leader Liz Wielinski* * Sarah Duniway President, Minneapolis Tom Paul Best Parks 2016 Managing Partner, Park & Recreation Retired CCO, *by The Trust for Public Land