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The Parker Foundation Marks 50 Years of Giving Leadership in San Diego

The Parker Foundation Marks 50 Years of Giving Leadership in San Diego

by Forever Balboa Park | Oct 5, 2021 | Partners, Community, Park History, Organization News

For decades, The Parker Foundation has worked under the radar to make tens of millions of dollars in impactful grants to a wide diversity of nonprofits throughout San Diego County, from arts organizations to homeless providers. October marks the Foundation’s 50-year...
Volunteer Profile: Dr. Jonathan Siegel

Volunteer Profile: Dr. Jonathan Siegel

by Forever Balboa Park | Apr 27, 2021 | Volunteers, Park History, Visitor Experience

Over the past year, we’ve all had to adapt to new ways of doing things while discovering new ways of experiencing Balboa Park. One of the constants throughout all of this has been the dedication of the Conservancy’s Visitors Center volunteers and Park Ambassadors. We...
20 Questions to Test Your Balboa Park Knowledge

20 Questions to Test Your Balboa Park Knowledge

by Forever Balboa Park | Apr 16, 2020 | Gardens, Visitor Experience, Park History, Horticulture

What’s your rank? Summer Intern or Park Ranger? Think you know Balboa Park? Test your park knowledge with our insider- approved Stuck-At-Home, Whaddya-Know-About-Balboa Park Quarantine Quiz. Score yourself with the answer key below. City Park, which later was...
Community Conversation Explores Cultural Landscape Report and Next Steps

Community Conversation Explores Cultural Landscape Report and Next Steps

by Forever Balboa Park | Jul 5, 2018 | Partners, Community, Park History, Studies and Reports

Last month, the Balboa Park Conservancy marked the 150-year anniversary of Balboa Park’s founding by convening a special community workshop to explore the remarkable history of the park’s early development. Balboa Park stakeholders, from both within and outside the...
Balboa Park: 150 Years in the Making

Balboa Park: 150 Years in the Making

by Forever Balboa Park | Feb 27, 2018 | Park History, Studies and Reports

Recently Balboa Park celebrated the centennial of the 1915 Panama California Exposition and how its impact on the Central Mesa continues to define the park’s distinctive character today. The park itself, however, was actually founded almost 50 years prior to the epic...
Samuel Parsons Jr. — First Master Landscape Plan for a New Park

Samuel Parsons Jr. — First Master Landscape Plan for a New Park

by Forever Balboa Park | Feb 27, 2018 | Park History, Studies and Reports

Throughout 2018, to help mark the park’s 150-year anniversary, we will feature a prominent figure in Balboa Park’s history, highlighting his or her unique role in the park’s early development.* While the names of Kate Sessions, George Marston, and Alonzo Horton are...
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