Strategic Plan 2025 – 2030

Our Mission:

We partner with community to champion thriving and equitable parks and public spaces.

Our Why:

Our vision is that people feel welcomed and invested in our parks and public spaces, leading to healthy, sustainable, and equitable communities.

Our Strategic Priorities:

Our 2030 Objectives:

Mobilizing Community Changemakers

Ensure 100% of SPF Partners receive the tools and resources they need to improve grassroots projects
Strengthen SPF’s South King County Presence
Strengthen grassroots leadership capacity through training, peer learning, professional development, and networking opportunities amongst our fiscal sponsees

Growing Urban Resilience

Advance tree equity and nature-based infrastructure efforts in priority communities so that underserved communities are engaged. 25% of project leaders reflect prioritized communities.
Lead a citywide effort to transform schoolyards and hardscape parks into vibrant, publicly accessible green spaces that advance equity, climate resilience, and community wellbeing.

Fostering Inclusive Communities

Acquire, protect and preserve land to expand public space assets throughout the region, addressing urban heat island effects and tree canopy.
Integrate universal/inclusive design principles as a standard across all SPF supported public space projects.
Advance equitable and community informed public space design and activation

Advocacy and Impact

SPF is recognized as a trusted civic partner and systems-change leader for a green and equitable Seattle and King County
Secure long-term, effective public funding in parks and public spaces that is deployed equitably and addresses our city’s greatest climate challenges.
Seattle and King County lead by example as a global green city/region through equitable and climate-forward parks and public space policies.
Develop rigorous data collection and analysis to support the impact of SPF’s work and the role parks and public spaces play in the health of the region. Share that data as it is available.

Catalyzing Resources and Organizational Sustainability

Catalyzing Resources and Organizational Sustainability:
Raise and deploy $10M to support grassroots public space leaders, organizational capacity, and a community-directed granting program across Seattle and King County.
Raise and deploy $25M in public and private funding to catalyze the launch and growth of at least 50 community-led park and public space projects, prioritizing equity and climate resilience.
Advance equity and belonging across all areas of the organization – staff, board, partners, and supporters.

Why This Work Matters:

The climate is changing, our urban population is growing, and the demand for plentiful and accessible public spaces is increasing. Connections to parks and their many benefits are not equitably distributed, leaving many communities in our region underserved and excluded.

Seattle’s history of redlining and other discriminatory practices has created a landscape of great inequity that is evident in the increasing challenges facing our region. Our commitment is to prioritize our offerings to communities that continue to be impacted as we work towards thriving and equitable parks and public spaces.

We Believe Community is Strongest Together:

We will actively identify and address implicit bias and structural racism within our organization and community.

We will use restorative practices that emphasize the importance of positive relationships as central to community building.

We will acknowledge historical and present harm done, and ask others to do the same.

We will focus, when possible, on restoring and repairing relationships in community.