BPFP Partner Groups

BPFP partner groups bring together neighbors and park users who want to take responsibility for improving specific parks, community gardens, or public landscaping or open spaces. Working in partnership with City staff when appropriate, citizen volunteers participate in a wide range of activities, from weeding, cleaning, and helping with ongoing maintenance to generating community participation in planning and implementing new projects.

In the list below, click underlined names to see the group’s web site. If you work with a group whose information needs updating, please contact us.

  • Albany Hill, Friends of: Providing stewardship for Albany Hill and educating the community about the biodiversity and historical and cultural significance of the hill.
  • Aquatic Park EGRET: EGRET volunteers tend native coastal plantings to improve the tidal wetlands for wildlife habitat and also lead walks of the bayshore park’s natural and cultural history. [This group is in hibernation as of 2018]
  • Berkeley Path Wanderers Association: Dedicated to the creation, preservation and restoration of public paths, steps and walkways in Berkeley for the use and enjoyment of all.
  • Berkeley Rose Garden, Friends of
  • Berkeley Waterfront Community Coalition: We seek to seek to build community and develop projects raising awareness of the history and vital roles of the many users of the Berkeley waterfront- sailors, boat owners, kayakers, swimmers, dog walkers, families, school groups, fishers, sunset, and bird watchers, and more.
  • Community for Cultural Civic Center
  • CHIA: For almost 27 years, CHIA volunteers have created and maintained the vibrant California native plant landscape on both sides of the Ohlone Greenway/old Santa Fe Right of Way in the Westbrae Natural and Cultural History Corridor. Here, neighbors and volunteers have created community gardens, signs, and varied art that provide healthy habitat and commemorate the history of the area, creating beauty and a remarkable sense of place for what could have been a blighted area where noisy BART trains come aboveground.
  • Citizens for the Off Leash Area
  • Dorothy Bolte Park, Friends of
  • EastBay Labyrinth Project
  • El Cerrito Community Garden Network
  • Five Creeks, Friends of: Friends of Five Creeks is an all-volunteer, hands-on group that seeks to protect and restore creeks, watersheds, and urban nature in North Berkeley, Albany, Kensington, and south El Cerrito and Richmond (Schoolhouse, Codornices, Village, Marin, Middle, and Cerrito Creeks, including tributaries such as Blackberry Creek).
  • Hillside Natural Area, Friends of: Protecting El Cerrito’s native meadows, oak woodlands, and riparian habitats, while also helping to reduce fire risk and building community.
  • Halcyon Commons Neighbors: Halcyon Commons is a community-designed and initiated park dedicated in the summer of 1996 in a South Berkeley neighborhood to the southwest of the Ashby-Telegraph intersection.
  • Hillside Club Front Garden: Information on the native-plant garden near the entrance to the historic club is here.
  • Intersections Project
  • Kensington Pathkeepers
  • King Courts
  • King Park, Friends of: Volunteer group striving to enhance King School Park on Hopkins Street in North Berkeley with a mural, Bay Friendly landscaping, increased play value, and safety.
  • Linn Memorial Fund
  • Ohlone Park, Friends of (FOOP)
  • Pacific Oaks Community Garden: Volunteers working to create a demonstration garden and edible schoolyard on open space near El Cerrito’s Community Center and Cerrito Vista Park, donating a portion of produce to needy local families.
  • Santa Fe ROW, Friends of: The goal of Friends of the Berkeley Santa Fe ROW is to foster the realization of a multi-use public greenway along the Santa Fe Right of Way (SF ROW) in South Berkeley.
  • San Pablo Park, Friends of
  • Schoolhouse Creek Common: Schoolhouse Creek Common is located at the Berkeley Adult School whose creation was supported by the Berkeley Unified School District and its neighbors. The park has a play area for young children, benches and picnic tables. Schoolhouse Creek Common has become an integral part of the Adult School, from classes that include the study of native California plants to a place to eat lunch or study.
  • Shorebird Nature Center, Friends of: The Shorebird Park Nature Center is the home of the Berkeley Marina Experience programs which consist of the Adventure Playground, The Straw bale Visitors Center and classroom. We provide environmental education, docent training, The Berkeley Bay Festival and the International Shoreline clean-up.
  • Take to the Hills: The goal of the Take To The Hills group is to improve access to the open areas of the Berkeley Hills. Their first project replaced and upgraded the eroded pathway and steps that go up from the top of Dwight Way on UC land behind the Clark Kerr Campus.
  • Tending the Ancient Shoreline Hill (TASH): Volunteer group working to remove invasives and encourage diverse native plants and habitat on Albany Hill.
  • Terrace View Park, Friends of: Terrace View Park is a small neighborhood park between Fairlawn and Queens Way in the Berkeley hills.
  • Thousand Oaks Neighborhood Association (TONA) 
  • Westbrae Commons, Friends of
  • Willard Park, Friends of: Friends of Willard Park works toward a fun, safe, clean, multi-use recreation space for its dense, dynamic neighborhood by organizing volunteers, raising funds, and providing a forum for planning park improvements.