2019 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY BRIDGING PEOPLE AND PARKS THANK YOU The Board would like to thank you for your commitment to the Golden Gate National Parks, whether you’re a friend, member, PARKSCONSERVANCY.ORG volunteer, or donor. And we’d like to thank Greg Moore for over 30 years of inspiring others to love these parklands. GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY BOARD OF TRUSTEES OFFICERS Jessica Galloway BOARD ASSOCIATES Robert Morris, Managing Director, Nurse Practitioner Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (retired) Colin Lind (Chair) Frank Almeda, Ph.D., Senior Curator, San Francisco Free Clinic Managing Partner Department of Botany, California Regina Liang Muehlhauser, President, San Francisco Blum Capital Partners (retired) Academy of Sciences Bank of America California (retired) Sausalito Linda Howell Fritz Arko, President and General Donald W. Murphy, Founder, Civic Leader The Andes Institute Randi Fisher (Vice Chair) Manager, Pier 39 (retired) San Francisco Pisces Foundation Michael R. Barr, Partner, Pillsbury Jacob E. Perea, Ph.D., Professor San Francisco Patsy Ishiyama Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Dean Emeritus, San Francisco Civic Leader State University Lynn Mellen Wendell (Vice Chair) Leslie Browne, Partner, SSL Law Firm San Francisco Mark W. Perry, Strategic Advisor Civic Leader Mark W. Buell, Civic Leader San Francisco Sujay Jaswa and General Partner, New Enterprise Founder & Managing Partner Virgil Caselli, Commercial Associates (retired) Staci Slaughter (Vice Chair) WndrCo LLC Property Ventures Executive Vice President, Rob Price, Co-Chairman & Creative San Francisco Milton Chen, Ph.D., Senior Fellow Director, Eleven, Inc. Communications & Senior and Executive Director Emeritus, Advisor to the CEO Dan Kingsley Toby Rosenblatt, Former Chair, 16 The George Lucas Educational Managing Partner Board of Directors, Presidio Trust San Francisco Giants Foundation 12 San Francisco SKS Investments Alexander H. Schilling, Chairman, David Courtney, General Partner San Francisco Union Square Investment Company 18 20 23 Gordon Ritter (Treasurer) & Chief Operating Officer, 13 24 15 Founder and General Partner Martha Kropf Helen Schwab, Civic Leader 14 21 Crosslink Capital 17 Emergence Capital Partners Civic Leader 22 Carlota del Portillo, Dean, City Alan Seelenfreund, Chairman, San Francisco San Francisco 19 McKesson Corporation (retired) 25 College of San Francisco (retired) Larry Low (Secretary) John Murray Phelps Dewey, President, Chronicle West Shell III, Co-Founder, CEO & Chief Legal Officer CEO, Paypro Corporation Publishing Company, Book Division Chairman, Conversa Health San Francisco Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (retired) Rich Silverstein, Co-Chairman San Francisco Melanie P. Peña 2 Paula F. Downey, President & Creative Director, Goodby 1 Civic Leader 8 and CEO, CSAA Insurance Group Silverstein & Partners 6 9 TRUSTEES Mill Valley 4 3 5 Odette Alcazaren-Keeley Millard Drexler, Chairman, J. Crew Cathy Simon, Principal, Perkins+Will John Pritzker Director, Maynard 200 at Maynard Founding Partner & Director Gianni Fassio, Owner, Palio D’Asti Michael Willis, Principal, Michael Institute for Journalism Education Willis Architects 7 10 11 Geolo Capital (retired) Burlingame San Francisco Robert Fisher, Chairman, Board of Sharon Y. Woo, Civic Leader John C. Atwater Directors, Gap, Inc. Jake Schatz Rosemary Young, Former Chair, Co-Chairman & Chief Executive Executive Vice President & General John Gamble, Managing Partner, Peninsula Community Foundation Officer, Prime Group Counsel, Electronic Arts Inc. Allen Matkins Leck Gamble San Francisco San Francisco Mallory & Natsis LLP (retired) Janice Barger Jessica Verrilli David Grubb, Chairman Emeritus, Civic Leader General Partner at GV and Founding Swinerton, Inc. San Francisco Partner at #ANGELS Walter J. Haas, Chairman, Darren Bechtel San Francisco Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund Founder & Managing Director Nuria Santamaria Wolfe Sally Hambrecht, Civic Leader Brick & Mortar Ventures Chief Marketing Office and San Francisco Charlene Harvey, Civic Leader Co-founder, Encantos Media Studios Martha Ehmann Conte Los Angeles S. Dale Hess, Executive Vice Civic Leader President, San Francisco Grace Won San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau Civic Leader (retired) Shane Douglas San Francisco , Founder, Manager Kit Hinrichs Studio Hinrichs Product Partnerships BOARD LIAISONS YouTube Phil Marineau, Partner, Amanda Hoenigman San Francisco LNK Partners Civic Leader Betsy Eisenhardt Liaison to the Parks Conservancy Amy McCombs, Lee Hills Chair of Free Press Studies, Missouri Civic Leader Leaders Circle School of Journalism San Francisco San Francisco Nion McEvoy, Chairman and Rodney Fong Julie Parish PARKS CONSERVANCY BOARD CEO, Chronicle Books LLC COVER PHOTO: “As a newer board member, I’m honored President & CEO Landscape Designer 1. Patsy Ishiyama 6. Larry Low 11. John Pritzker 16. John Murray 21. Gordon Ritter NOT PICTURED San Francisco Liaison to the Parks Conservancy Conservancy staff celebrated the fifth anniversary of the trailblazing Roving Ranger 2. Jessica Galloway 7. Staci Slaughter 12. Sujay Jaswa 17. Martha Conte 22. Amanda Hoenigman Darren Bechtel to help bridge the Conservancy to its next Chamber of Commerce Leaders Circle (Emeritus) San Francisco San Francisco in 2018. The mobile trailhead has greeted 3. Melanie Peña 8. Randi Fisher 13. Martha Kropf 18. Julie Parish 23. Shane Douglas Jessica Verrilli chapter: Making our parks even more nearly 50,000 people in the community and 4. Lynn Wendell 9. Betsy Eisenhardt 14. Nuria Santamaria Wolfe 19. Odette Alcazaren-Keeley 24. Jake Schatz John Atwater welcoming, accessible, and relevant to traveled enough miles to drive across the United States—three times over! 5. Colin Lind 10. Grace Won 15. Janice Barger 20. Dan Kingsley 25. Linda Howell Rodney Fong young people of all backgrounds.” — Melanie Peña FROM PARK BUILDERS TO PARK ACTIVATORS BRIDGING: PARK HISTORY MEETS FUTURE In our Golden Gate National Parks, bridges are focal points and starting points. They soar above us, forcing us to stop and look no matter how many times we’ve seen them before. Then they connect us to new adventures. In 2018 and 2019, bridging took on special meaning as the Conservancy entered a new era of leadership. We’re thrilled to welcome President & CEO Chris Lehnertz, as Greg Moore becomes CEO Emeritus and transitions to a new role as Special Advisor. This is a moment to celebrate our accomplishments and park trans- formations, many within sight of the Golden Gate Bridge. At the same time, we look to the future and all the possi- bilities Chris brings. With her commit- ment to inclusion, we enter a new phase of activating our parklands for people from every part of the Bay Area. At both ends of the bridge our parks await, filled with promise for some- thing fresh, something fun. We’re so happy you’re on this journey too. PARKS FOR ALL: CRISSY FIELD WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MAKE SPACE ‘FOR ALL’? WONDER “Crissy Field represents everything our democracy can be when we make a commitment to openness, opportunity, and inclusion.” -Cathy Cha, President, Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund Nearly 20 years ago, working with our partners, that would connect people to their natural the community, and the Evelyn and Walter surroundings—and to each other.” Haas, Jr. Fund, we helped transform Crissy In 2018, Crissy Field hosted 32 young people for Field from a concrete parking lot into a beloved a moving naturalization ceremony. The park San Francisco park. Today, Crissy Field is a also hosted a StoryWalk featuring Dave Eggers’ stunning and truly democratic open space immigration-themed “Her Right Foot” and the with more than 1 million visitors annually. Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Big Blue Whale art “In many ways, the reality of Crissy Field has project, focused on ocean pollution. surpassed our dreams,” said Ira Hirschfield, Those 2018 moments were made possible with President Emeritus, Evelyn and Walter Haas, the promise of change 20 years ago. And they’ll Jr. Fund. “We wanted Crissy Field to be a bridge continue into the future at Crissy Field. Interactions with the blue whale art exhibit in five months at Crissy Field. They learned every 9 minutes, 300,000 pounds of plastic (the size of a blue whale) gets dumped in the ocean. More at parksconservancy.org/bluewhale Katherine Toy, Executive Vice President, Partnerships and Programs for the Conservancy, left, with Cathy Cha and Ira Hirschfield of the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. “The naturalization ceremony and the StoryWalk leading almost to the front door of the Crissy Field Center highlight our commitment to youth, a key mission of the Conservancy’s ‘For All’ programs,” Toy said. Read more and see video of the StoryWalk at parksconservancy.org/crissyforall PARKS FOR ALL: CONNECTING PEOPLE TO PARKS HOW MARQUIS BECAME A PARK CHAMPION “You tap out to tap in. You see the ships in the background, and you hear the waves crash and then recede. Time, it freezes. Love and beauty, that’s what I feel.” -Marquis Engle, Program Director, Up on Top At the Up on Top after-school and summer The Conservancy and our partners continually program in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neigh- create bridges for people to discover national borhood, leaders talk about “planting a seed” of parks. In the fall of 2018, we offered shuttles to inspiration for their youth. For Marquis Engle, Crissy Field Day, a celebration of the beloved the seed planted with the Conservancy has park’s past and future. Our Roving Ranger infor- blossomed into a full-blown love of the parks. mation truck is cruising into its fifth year. And in conjunction with the San Francisco Public Marquis, the Program Director at Up on Top, saw Library’s Summer Stride program, we offered nine the ocean for the first time at a Muir Beach meeting free shuttle trips from libraries to parks in 2018. of the Mo’MAGIC collective of nonprofits and youth- serving organizations. Since then, Conservancy Marquis needed only one connection to fall in shuttles have taken Up on Top youth to Muir love with parks. And the Conservancy is working Woods, the Golden Gate Bridge, and beyond. to create thousands more every year.