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2016 was a year of remarkable change and growth at the Fairmount Park Conservancy, as the organization took steps to deepen our commitment and service to communities across Philadelphia. IN 2016, FAIRMOUNT PARK WAS OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF AMERICA’S GREAT PUBLIC SPACES BY THE AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION.
The onset of the new Mayoral administration included the appointment of Conservancy Executive Director Kathryn Ott Lovell as Parks & Recreation Commissioner, and the launch of a national search that concluded with the naming of Rick Magder as Executive Director. This smooth transition positions the Conservancy to advance our important work at the intersection of parks and communities. We are pleased to share this look back at the previous year’s work in service to Philadelphia’s parks, historic properties and communities.
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We love Philadelphia’s parks because they do so much for us. We encounter wild nature in parks, which is more diverse in a place like Philadelphia than we realize and see day to day. Parks are where we meet people of all faiths, incomes, ages and histories too. We cement our relationships with our kids in parks and parks keep us centered in the midst of our complex lives. They also make our neighborhoods stronger, which in turn has the power to revitalize the economy of the whole city. Yet, we forget how vulnerable parks can be and that they need our attention, gifts, time and energy. We assume they will always be there and that the city has the resources to protect, maintain and improve them. Their future, like other civic assets, is guaranteed only by our commitment to them as a whole community. The Fairmount Park Conservancy works to make sure that we never lose sight of this fact. We make our parks better every day across the entire city. We have to, because Fairmount Park is citywide, from the Delaware River to Cobbs Creek, and from Fort Mifflin to the Pennypack Creek. The Conservancy improves Philadelphia’s parks in three respects. First, we get people involved with them in innovative ways. Parks are transformative when people use them and we have a range of strategies, many recognized nationally, that get people to move through, relax, exercise and participate in their parks. Second, we restore our parks, investing in major improvements to athletic fields, natural lands, historic buildings, and playgrounds. And third, we promote stewardship, catalyzing thousands of people wanting to give back. We do this in tandem with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation in one of the nation’s most vital public-private partnerships. Our goal is simple. Make the parks of Philadelphia as good as they can be, so that our city and every person in it can be too. Be a park champion with us.
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Since 2004, the Conservancy has been working to connect residents to their closest green spaces–and to each other–by fostering a spirit of volunteerism, stewardship, and collective ownership of the city’s 140 neighborhood parks. The primary driver of this work is our growing Neighborhood Park Stewardship Program, which draws thousands of volunteers to seasonal service days each year, provides hundreds of tools and financial resources to these parks in support of service days and community events, and builds capacity and encourages skillsharing among citizen volunteers through the growing Park Friends Network. The program, managed in partnership with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, gives us an on-the-ground, citywide reach, allowing the Conservancy to help cultivate the next generation of park leaders through grassroots-level community engagement that responds directly to local needs.
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In 2016, a record number of 115 groups registered with our Park Friends Network, and 750 volunteers joined us for meetings, skill-sharing conferences, park tours and communications training events. In the spring and fall, 3,983 volunteers generously committed 14,795 volunteer hours to help clean and green our parks during Love Your Park Service Days, and the Conservancy supported special events at 57 parks. Through our fledging Corporate Stewardship Program, we provided leadership and tools for 190 corporate volunteers who committed 570 hours of volunteer work throughout the year. The Neighborhood Park Stewardship Program and Love Your Park are funded by the Chubb Charitable Foundation, Novacare Rehabilitation, Bank of America, PECO, Albert Lofgren-Antoinette Farrar Seymour Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation, and the Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation.
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The Conservancy works to conserve thousands of acres of parks, watersheds, and trails, grow our critical urban tree canopy, and restore and
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revitalize more than 40 historic properties under our care. Covering more than 10,200 acres, Philadelphia’s park system provides habitat for hundreds of creatures, trees, and native plants and includes some of our nation’s most important historic buildings and monuments. Protecting these natural and physical assets is essential to preserving our city’s unique story.
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In 2016, our Natural Lands team worked hand-in-hand with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation to open up park gateways and edges, complete extensive trail work, and re-establish plant diversity at a variety of sites, including Randolph Creek, the Mount Pleasant meadow and woodland edge, Concourse Lake, the MLK Drive meadow, The Horticulture Center’s Lansdowne Glenn, Greenland Nursery, Verree Road wetland, Tacony Creek floodplain and old field, Haddington Woods, and the Cobbs Creek recreational trail. We also completed a demonstration project on the Trolley Trail at Belmont Plateau in West Fairmount Park, removing trees and brush to create a new trail segment, and constructed a foot bridge milled from downed trees within the park to allow safe crossing over a small tributary.
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Since 2012, we have worked to increase the urban tree canopy through the TreePhilly initiative, in partnership with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation. Together, we educate local property owners, businesses and neighborhood residents on the importance of the urban tree canopy and give away thousands of trees each year. In 2016, with the support of TD Bank, TreePhilly added 3,339 new trees throughout Philadelphia.
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Each year, our Historic Preservation team restores dozens of important structures on city parkland and brings historic park buildings back to life with long-term leases to civic organizations and businesses, which in turn support further restoration efforts. In 2016, our team of conservators led more than 20 significant restorations to historic park properties, including those at the Wissahickon Environmental Center, The Woodlands Cemetery, the Belmont Stables in West Fairmount Park, Bartram’s Garden, and Historic Rittenhousetown. We trained 14 interns and apprentices from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia University, and Temple University who learned critical conservation methodologies and expanded our field capacity. We were awarded a 2016 Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia Grand Jury Award for improvements at the Wissahickon Environmental Center, and also received recognition from the Alliance for our role in restoring the Hamilton Mansion cryptoporticus and North Terrace at The Woodlands.
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The Conservancy activates Philadelphia’s parks, bringing innovative programs and new amenities to all corners of the city and drawing residents
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THE OVAL Each summer since 2013, the Conservancy and Philadelphia Parks & Recreation have transformed Eakins Oval into The Oval, Presented by PNC, an eight-acre pop-up park at the northwestern edge of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway that offers programming and activities for people of all ages. Over its six-week season last summer, The Oval offered a selection of free programming, Wednesday through Sunday, focused on healthy lifestyles and arts and cultural activities and brought over 40,000 visitors to the city’s popular "Park on the Parkway." S TE WA R DS H I P
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PARKS ON TAP Together with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and FCM Hospitality, we launched Parks on Tap, a traveling community beer garden that celebrates city parks by bringing people together to enjoy them in a relaxed, fun and interactive way and encourages people to discover, use, and support open park space. In its inaugural season, Parks on Tap welcomed over 30,000 people to 14 different locations in Philadelphia’s park system, generating $90,000 in new revenue that is now being reinvested in the city’s parks.
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The Conservancy continued to build a partnership with 18 historic houses that populate East and West Fairmount Park. Our team helped organize Rooms in Bloom, an April event that brought site-inspired floral designs featuring local garden clubs and florists to many of the historic houses. In the summer, children from the Spells Writing Lab visited the houses and created puppet theater inspired by the history on display at the houses. In December, the historic houses in Fairmount Park were decorated for the holidays, and, with this year’s A Very Philly Christmas, hosted special programming for music lovers, food devotees, families, and adjacent residents, all of which contributed to a 41% increase in visitation to the park’s historic houses during the holiday season.
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MEADOW MANSIONS In fall 2016, in partnership with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and Audubon Pennsylvania, we commissioned 12 artists to create birdhouses for the Meadow Mansions exhibition at Mount Pleasant Mansion as part of the DesignPhiladelphia festival. These beautiful structures raised awareness of the importance of meadow habitat in public parks and are being installed throughout Fairmount Park. S TE WA R DS H I P
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In 2016, the Conservancy’s Membership program expanded to 731 members, and we hosted 71 unique member events, including 19 guided hikes, 14 trail runs, 14 yoga classes, and 10 kayak trips. In May, 120 runners participated in the Broad Street Run as champions for the Conservancy, raising a combined $60,000 for trail work at Belmont Plateau. In October, we hosted the fifth annual GLOW in the Park "friendraiser" event, bringing 433 Conservancy members to the long-dormant Palazzo on the Parkway for a night of music, food and drink, and a one-of-a-kind light show designed by the experiential art shop Klip Collective.
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The Conservancy invests in communities through a range of capital park projects, creative placemaking strategies, and capacity-
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in specific neighborhoods over a span of years, we are able to make a difference in how the community experiences a park and, ultimately, in the strength of the neighborhood itself.
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In late 2015, the Fairmount Park Conservancy was honored to be selected as one of six organizations across the country to participate in ArtPlace America’s Community Development Investments program. This initiative has allowed the Conservancy to integrate arts and culture strategies into our core mission delivery and harness the power of artists and cultural organizations to enrich our work in the park system and neighboring communities. In summer 2016, we worked with Public Workshop to design, build and program an interactive platform at The Oval called the Fairmount Park Launch. The project created a home base to distribute our new Fairmount Park map, a meeting place for guided bike tours of Fairmount Park, and a visual exhibition of historic Fairmount Park photographs and renderings to acquaint people with the extraordinary legacy of the park.
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CIVIC COMMONS In late 2014, the Conservancy was selected by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the William Penn Foundation as the convener for Reimagining the Civic Commons, a collaborative initiative that began in Philadelphia as a way to connect the city’s leading public space operators and five planned new civic spaces (the Reading Viaduct, Bartram’s Mile, Lovett Library and Park, Discovery Center in East Fairmount Park and our own Centennial Commons in the Centennial District of West Fairmount Park). The initiative includes an Innovation Fund that has allowed us to test new strategies for public space interventions and build connections among communities surrounding the five Philadelphia Civic Commons sites. As of fall 2016, Reimagining the Civic Commons has gone national.
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The Conservancy continued to convene the East Fairmount Park Coalition, a group of 98 individuals representing 50 local organizations working to position East Fairmount Park as a major cultural, historical, natural, and recreational asset for the adjacent neighborhoods and the Philadelphia region. In September, we supported the 5th Annual Boxers’ Trail 5K on Strawberry Mansion Day, bringing 233 runners and walkers out to the restored trails made famous by Joe Frazier and still used today by local boxers, runners and hikers. Also in September, we celebrated the relighting of Boathouse Row with a festival that attracted an audience of over 3,000 to this beloved section of Fairmount Park. In concert with community leaders in Strawberry Mansion, we are advancing work on the Mander to the River project, a set of improvements to create a sense of place and connection among the neighborhood's assets.
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In 2016, as part of the Civic Commons initiative, the Conservancy continued to advance through the design phase of Centennial Commons, our next major capital project that will bring an innovative new recreation space to the Centennial District of West Fairmount Park. In spring 2017 we will break ground on the first phase of the project, the Neighborhood Edge along Parkside Avenue, to be followed by the construction of the Youth Area play space in 2018. Centennial Commons’ Neighborhood Edge will serve as a "front porch," welcoming neighborhood residents and visitors into the park. Developed after an extensive community engagement process, the Neighborhood Edge will incorporate new native plantings and enhanced traffic calming features, making Parkside Avenue safer to cross. Integrated stormwater management elements will also provide environmental benefits, wildlife habitats, and ecological learning opportunities.
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The Conservancy is deeply grateful to the following individual, corporate and foundation supporters who contributed gifts of $100 or more during the fiscal
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Every gift to the Conservancy is greatly appreciated and we wish to extend a sincere thank you to the many other donors who give generously to support our work. The Fairmount Park Conservancy would also like to
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Peter Kelly
Elizabeth Solomon
Jane Margraff Kieser Min-Young Kim and Michael Lampson Linda and William Koons Evelyn Kritchevsky Lydia and John Krzeminski Howard and Gail Kunreuther Charitable Fund of the Jewish Communal Fund Dr. Bette Landman Judith and Morton Langsfeld Kathleen and Thomas Leonard
Lynne and Steven Delanty Spencer Michael and Janet Sperling Dean H. Springman Louanne Stratton Michelle Taglialatela Elizabeth Ten Have Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Tyler Dr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Vernon Ed Wagner Linda H. Weaver
Gary H. Levin
Sandra W. Weckesser, Esq.*
Eleanor Lloyd Samuel P. Mandell Foundation Lynn and Joseph* M. Manko
Ethel Wetherill Mary F. Wiley Signe Wilkinson and Jon Landau
Sandra Martin Gerald McHugh and Maureen Tate Elizabeth P. McLean Karen and John McMeekin
Wissahickon Charter School Thomas and Loretta Witt Catherine Worrall Minturn T. Wright, III
Ella S. Mecray Elizabeth Mednick
Thomas Wyatt
William L. Wilson S TE WA R DS H I P
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Conservancy Members
2 0 1 6 R E P O R T TO T H E C O M M U N I T Y
2016 Centennial Celebration Honorees
Historic Preservation
Motiv Sports
Joan Roberts
The 1772 Foundation, Inc.
William Penn Foundation
Harriet Rubenstein and Martin Brigham
Carter R. Leidy, Jr.*
Elizabeth and Eugene Gasiewski
Judge Teresa Sarmina
Gladyne K. Mitchell
Angela Geiger
Adam Shapiro and Terryl Decker
Philadelphia Cultural Fund
Matching Gifts
Eric Gibson and Jeannie Pearce
Joseph Shapiro
Mr.* and Mrs. Philip Price, Jr.
Apple Inc.
For Civic Leadership
Drs. Joel and Linda Griska
Marcia C. Shearer
Lyle and Janet Rosenberger
Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Mayor James Kenney
Glen Foerd on the Delaware
Lisa Simon
Elizabeth Vogdes and Charles Cantor
Exelon Foundation
Sidney Goldstein
Harris Sokoloff
Ellen and Howard Goodwin
Michael and Jacqueline Strigel
2016 John K. Binswanger Park Champion
Bonnie and Lon Greenberg
William E. Toffey and Kathryn Krantz
Madeline and Rodney Griffin
Colleen Walsh
Sharon and Oleh Haluszka
Joanne and Raymond Welsh
Brendan Harney
Margaret Whittaker
Adrienne Y. Hart
Amy and Bernard Wilson
Membership $100-$249
Kathryn Hayes
Sherley Young
Anonymous (2)
Jane Golden and Tony Heriza
Carol Beam
Hans Hesselein
Jane N. Beatty
Dr. Arthur Holst
Michael and Cookie Belman
Ronald L. Kaiserman
Evelyn and Steve Bennett
Jay and Donna Karfunkle
Lawrence and Julie Berger
Martha and Robert Kennedy
Betsy A. Bowden
Kathryn Kovacs
John Briggs
Evelyn Kritchevsky
Dorothy J. Burton
Helen Lam
Joseph A. Caesar
Brian Lucas
Comcast Corporation
Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Carmalt
Filomena and Joseph Marshall
Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation
Jennifer and Robert Celata
Sarah McCabe
Drexel University
Jenny Chen
Barbara McDermott
EcoMedia - A CBS Company
Albert Ciardi
Brendan McGrath
Friends of Sedgley Woods
Mr. and Mrs. Patricia Cobleigh
James and Mimi McKenzie
Germantown Academy
Gene and Charles Dilks
MGA Partners Architects
Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest
L. Stuart Ditzen and Denise Cowie
Maygail and Austin Nagle
Mr. and Mrs. Davis Dure
Membership $250+ Martin DiFrancesco Graham and Katharine Finney Friends of Penn Treaty Park Friends of Sedgley Woods Ann and David Lane Gary H. Levin Lindy Property Management Co. Penn Treaty Museum Pullman SST, Inc. Cathy and William G. Sharrar, MD Bayard T. Story, PhD
Johannah Fine
Richman Charitable Trust
Mark P. Flood
Theodore Robb
Pamela and Peter Freyd Jerrold and Beth Frezel
Special Projects & Programs Almo Corporation ArtPlace America
The Philadelphia Foundation
For Corporate Leadership
GlaxoSmithKline IBM International Foundation
Tribute Gifts
Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies
Nicholas DeBenedictis
Joan Reilly and Michael DiBerardinis Janet and John Haas
Lockheed Martin Employees' Political Action Committee
In memory of Patricia Kind Cindy* and John Affleck Joseph and Lynn Manko The Patricia Kind Family Foundation
Macquarie Group Foundation The Merck Foundation
2016 Centennial Celebration— Centre Square Sponsors
In honor of Jerome and Amanda Clauser American Board of Internal Medicine Noah Clauser Randi Tonik Gail Wollerton
TE Connectivity Matching Gift Program
Saint-Gobain Corporation
In honor of John Binswanger David and Dorothy Binswanger Janet Binswanger
William Penn Foundation
In honor of Joseph M. Manko Lois and Mitchell Burack
Thomson Reuters Tiff Advisory Services Vanguard Matching Gift Program
2016 Centennial Celebration— Franklin Square Sponsors Aqua America Binswanger Dranoff Properties
Sponsors
Carol Eicher*
Park Stewardship & Love Your Park
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Bank of America
Jones Lang La Salle
The Chubb Corporation
Liberty Property Trust
In honor of Archbishop Ryan Cross Country and Coach Ed Ulmer Scott Lash
NovaCare Rehabilitation
Macro Consultants
PECO
Pennoni Associates
In memory of Roxy Diamond Susan Miller
The OVAL
2016 Centennial Celebration— Logan Square Sponsors
Commonwealth Charter Academy
Chemtura
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
In honor of Ground Reconsidered The Lighting Practice
Greater Media Philadelphia
The Chubb Corporation
Nildred and John Nawa
Holderness School
Park Towne Place
A bequeath of Phoebe Rosenberry
Comcast
Sharon Corbin and Ed Spector
Sara Nerken
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
PNC Bank
Cozen O'Connor
Donald Cresswell and Nancy Nitzberg
Bonnie and Eliot Nierman
Fox Rothschild LLP
Warby Parker
Thomas and Virginia Dalfo
Erin O'Connor
Albert J. Lofgren and Antoinette Farrar Seymour Donor-Advised Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation
Unleashed by Petco
Franklin Square Partners
Whole Foods Market
Angelarosa DiDonato
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin O'Hara
The Philadelphia Foundation
John* and Patti Gattuso
Janice and Tom Duffin
Valerie D. Pearce
Philadelphia Freedoms
Jerry and Debbie Epstein
Catherine Reilly
Saint-Gobain Corporation
Peter and Ellen Evans
Penny Rezet and Eric Feingold
William Penn Foundation
The Barra Foundation Bryn Mawr Racing Company
In memory of Ernie Eskin Myra Eskin, Matt Eskin and Rachel Eskin Fisher
Organizations Anonymous Arden Theatre Co. CMGRP, Inc.
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The Goldenberg Group
TreePhilly
The Maguire Foundation
TD Bank
CONSE RVATION
Leslie Anne Miller, Esq. and Richard Worley
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McCormick Taylor, Inc.
2 0 1 6 R E P O R T TO T H E C O M M U N I T Y
NovaCare Rehabiliation
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Philadelphia Phillies
KieranTimberlake
Robert A.M. Stern Architects LLP
Laurel Hill Cemetery
Sun Capital
Monroe Energy
TD Bank
Studio Bryan Hanes
Turner Construction Company
Financial Report, FY 2016 The Conservancy is pleased to present the financial results for the year ending June 30, 2016. This was the first full fiscal year after our merger with the Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust, and the combined organization has strengthened our mission of preserving and enhancing the park system’s lands and properties through diverse funding and programming. The Conservancy continues to administer a number of multi-year grants, which has led to an increase
2015 GLOW in the Park—Park Champion
in temporarily restricted revenue and related expenses, and we have continued our grant and contract funded work
Wells Fargo
Jeanette Arthur, Realtor, Berkshire Hathaway
in the areas of park stewardship, capital projects, land restoration, and programming. Finally, with an increase in the
William Penn Foundation
Max* and Elyse Berger
Urban Engineers, Inc.
2016 Centennial Celebration— Washington Square Sponsors Max* and Elyse Berger Bittenbender Construction, LP
Clemens Construction Company, Inc. J2 Design Partnership Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc.
number and scale of our projects and activities, we have raised funds to build organizational capacity to ensure the continued success of our programs. The ratio of program services to total expenses, as compared to fundraising and administrative expenses, was 84%, which represents our dedication to ensuring that our funding continues to support our programs and projects.
The Chubb Corporation
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES
Citizens Bank
FOR YEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2016 AND 2015
Clemens Construction Company, Inc. Community Counselling Service Co, LLC
Drexel University Ensemble Investments, LLC Foster + Partners Penny and Robert Fox
Permanently Restricted
2016 Total
2015 Total
Support & Revenues Foundation grants
$224,216
$5,603,575
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$5,827,791
$11,645,548
Please note that the Conservancy endeavors to maintain complete and accurate records. If you notice an error or omission please contact the Development Department at 215-988-9334.
Corporate grants
$11,878
$763,842
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$775,720
$490,116
Scott Conking* and Thomas Wall Cushman & Wakefield
Temporarily Restricted
* Current members of Fairmount Park Conservancy Board of Directors
Unrestricted
Contributions
$343,209
$87,300
-
$430,509
$317,491
Government contracts
$919,210
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-
$919,210
$437,973
Contracts
$671,033
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-
$671,033
$543,862
Rents
$193,289
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$193,289
$184,774
The Glenmede Trust Company
Special events, net of expenses of $176,508
$331,338
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-
$331,338
$369,681
Independence Blue Cross
Investment income
$9,717
$82,348
-
$92,065
$80,696
Net assets released from restrictions: Satisfaction of program restrictions
$5,912,066
$(5,912,066)
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Total Revenue, Gains, & Other Support
$8,615,956
$624,999
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$9,240,955
$14,070,141
KieranTimberlake Jane F. and Leonard I. Korman L.F. Driscoll Company Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP Monroe Energy, LLC
Expenses
PECO
Program Services
$7,198,649
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-
$7,198,649
$2,257,798
Philadelphia Energy Solutions
Administrative
$910,665
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$910,665
$393,011
PNC Bank
Fundraising
$467,660
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$467,660
$327,199
Total Expenses
$8,576,974
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$8,576,974
$2,978,007 $11,092,134*
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP 2015 GLOW in the Park—Friend of the Conservancy
Change in Net Assets
$38,982
$624,999
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$663,981
Accenture LLP
Net Assets— Beginning of Period
$1,360,728
$13,566,125
$100,000
$15,026,853
Net Assets—End Of Period
$1,399,710
$14,191,124
$100,000
$15,690,834
Carol and Horace Barsh Community Counselling Service Co, LLC Carol Eicher*
* The numbers related to year ending June 30, 2015 are from combined financials of the Fairmount Park Conservancy and the Fairmount Park Historic Preservation Trust over the year of our merger, and also include two large multi-year grants. S TE WA R DS H I P
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Conservancy Staff Rick Magder Executive Director Tim Clair Senior Director of Operations & Planning Jamie Gauthier Senior Director of Public Partnerships Meg Holscher Senior Director of Development Jennifer Mahar Senior Director of Civic Initiatives Ellen Ryan Senior Director of Strategy & Planning Lucy Strackhouse Senior Director of Preservation & Property Management Kelly Altrichter Conservation Technician Andrew Clark Finance Manager Chris Dougherty Project Manager Erin Engelstad Park Stewardship Manager Andrea Exo Conservation Technician Sara Hirschler Marketing & Membership Manager Nyla Holland Intern Extraordinaire
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Kim Jordan Development Coordinator Nicole Matchette Architectural Conservator Tom McPoyle Architectural Conservator Ed Miller Historic House Coordinator
Credits Designer Andee Mazzocco, WBD Contributors Meg Holscher Kim Jordan
Elizabeth Moselle Associate Director of Business Development
Rick Magder
Erin Nardini Special Events Coordinator
Ellen Ryan
Adela Park Special Projects Coordinator
Cover and Primary Photographer
Ines Reyes Administrative Coordinator Luke Rhodes Project Coordinator Kevin Roche Impact & Grants Manager Joe Soprani Operations & Finance Coordinator
Kevin Roche
Albert Yee
Additional Photography pages 1-3: R. Kennedy for Visit Philadelphia® pages 14-15: Darryl Moran for TreePhilly pages 16-17: Ryan Collerd pages 34-35: Steve Weinik
Andrew Staples Conservation Technician
pages 38-39: Studio Bryan Hanes
Jay Stephenson Architectural Conservator
inside back cover: Andee Mazzocco
Nick Tenaglia Conservation Technician
Park Champion Icon
pages 40-41: Jennifer Francesco
J2 Design
Ray Tschoepe Director of Conservation Lindsey Walker Park Stewardship Coordinator
Support for the creation of this report was provided by ArtPlace America.
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