Catalyst Community Festivals:
Free Community Events in Your Park!
Meet and Experience the Catalyst
Program in Your Neighborhood!
Overview
Catalyst is a program of which works in the community to make the park an interactive place
for the community. The program is a signature effort of Partnerships for Parks, a joint program
of City Parks Foundation and NYC Parks. The Catalyst Program combines the community
engagement and capacity building tools of Partnerships for Parks, the programming of City
Parks Foundation, and capital investments by NYC Parks to revitalize neighborhood parks.
Catalyst has been successful in revitalizing parks and catalyzing park leadership in more than
13 park communities since its inception in 1997. Catalyst works with local partners together to
achieve long-term change in historically under-served parks while strengthening communities’
political and social capital through intensive capacity-building, leadership development, and
community visioning.
Catalyst Community Festivals
The Catalyst Community Festival will be a fun day for the community to find out about the
different ways residents and organizations can “be the Catalyst” of change in their own
community. There will be information about arts & crafts, puppet shows, planting projects
interactive games, sports and learning activities, community resources, and interesting videos
and workshops.
Programs represented will include Partnerships for Parks programs in Outreach, Technical
Assistance, Volunteer Program, and Catalyst as well as the City Parks Foundation Programs of
Arts, Sports, and Education, and NYC Parks special programs.
Catalyst Community Festivals: Free Community Events in Your Park!
The festivals will take place on Saturdays, between 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. as follows:
May 16th, 2015
Thomas Jefferson Park, East Harlem, NY
2180 First Avenue (at 112th St)
June 27th, 2015
Kaiser Park, Brooklyn, NY
Neptune Avenue between W28th Street & W29th Street
July 25th, 2015
Faber Park, Staten Island, NY
Faber Street and Richmond Terrace
In 2015, the Catalyst Program will begin to work in a new set of park communities which
are Faber Park in the North Shore of Staten Island, Kaiser Park in the Coney Island area of
Brooklyn, and East Harlem parks in Manhattan. We are hosting Catalyst Community Festivals
at each park site in order to introduce the program and all of the resources from Partnerships
for Parks, City Parks Foundation and NYC Parks that are available to the community members
and local organizations.
Contact Us
Melissa Garcia, Catalyst Program Director
[email protected]
Carlos Martinez, Catalyst Program Manager
[email protected]
Eric Wyche, Community Specialist, East Harlem
[email protected]
Jesse Such, Community Specialist, Faber Park
[email protected]
Ted Enoch, Community Specialist, Kaiser Park
[email protected]