Mission Statement
The mission of Friends of Grant Park is to preserve natural areas of the park, enhance unique features of the park, encourage use of the park, and to provide a mechanism for private contributions to supplement public funding of Grant Park.
We appreciate any and all donations! Donations through The Park People, our fiscal agent, can be made online here: https://parkpeoplemke.org/friends-groups/donate-friends-groups/, and scroll down to choose Friends of Grant Park.
On your cell phone, access PayPal here:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PARJN3UXTUACC
If donating by check, make payable to the Park People of Milwaukee County with the memo line identifying Friends of Grant park (birdfeeder or trees or whatever), and send to:
The Park People of Milwaukee County Inc.
Falk Park Pavilion
2013 W. Rawson Ave.
Oak Creek, WI 53154
The Park People is a 501(c)(3) organization.
Join us for our monthly meetings!
The Friends of Grant Park have monthly meetings on the second Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM, meeting in person at the Grant Park Golf Course Clubhouse, 100 E. Hawthorne Ave., South Milwaukee. Park security issues are always first on the agenda.
Our 2024 Board of Directors:
- Pam Uhrig, Chair
- Debby Pizur, Vice Chair
- Lynn Crawford/Debby Pizur, Co-Secretaries
- Lynn Crawford, Treasurer
- Mary Fortier and Jody Johnson, Members at Large
To contact the Friends of Grant Park:
friendsofgrantpark@gmail.com
and on Facebook at Friends of Grant Park
Don’t get lost!
Trying to navigate the Seven Bridges area? Click on the link below to access a map of the Seven Bridges ravine and northern end of Grant Park.
7 bridges map 2004 (10 bridges)
Friends Group Receives Award
The Park People, an umbrella organization encouraging citizen stewardship of Milwaukee County Parks has awarded their 2013 Volunteer Group of the Year award to the Friends of Grant Park. The volunteer group, formed in 2006, has worked to improve Grant Park through its Weed-Out! programs each spring and fall; replaced carpeting in the golf course clubhouse; installed security cameras to monitor vandalism at the beach and has installed several rain gardens. A slope restoration project necessitated by a washout due to the severe storms in 2011 in the Seven Bridges ravine was installed June 8th, 2012. The Friends of Grant Park received the award May 30, 2014 at the Greenfield Park Pavilion.
I would like to be involved in the FOGP. Please advise! Thanks
Since the lagoon is located in the Oak Creek Parkway, and not within Grant Park’s borders, the Friends of Grant Park do not host a WeedOut at that location. I am not aware that the Friends of the Mill Pond are involved in the WeedOut program. Regarding “Restore the Lagoon” fundraising, I believe that is an independent ad hoc group and I can’t speak for their donation program.
Amanda, we took a volunteer group to the Mill Pond about 3 weeks ago to cut down the teasel there. There is a great deal of invasive material growing there, but we note that with some of the materials growing on the pond edge, the goose population (and its resulting waste) has become more manageable than the previous mowed edge.
Is there a way to order the 2023 friends of grand Park calendar online?
Unfortunately, no. We are unable to accommodate online orders. We will have calendars available very soon at 4 local businesses in South Milwaukee, and will post various other purchase options once the vendors have calendars in stock. A reminder that calendar sales are limited to cash and personal checks only.