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About Greater Metro Parks Foundation

GMPF partners with, and is housed at, Metro Parks Tacoma headquarters on South 19th Street.

Greater Metro Parks Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes support to enhance parks and recreation programs and capital projects for Tacoma neighborhoods.

A partner organization to Metro Parks Tacoma since 1991, the Greater Metro Parks Foundation nurtures community engagement, volunteerism, and philanthropy.

Mission

Inviting you to build a healthier, more vibrant community by investing in people and parks.

Vision

Our community transformed... all lives enriched... through greater parks.

Click here to learn more about the Greater Metro Parks Foundation Strategic Plan.

Priorities

GMPF works in tandem with Metro Parks Tacoma to raise funds, awareness, and community support for a wide range of projects and programs. Click here to learn more about our priorities.

From the Ground Up

What began with a renovation at McCarver Park and a new play and spray ground at Wright Park became so much more through the power of partnership.

Click to learn more about this inspiring community effort.

GMPF has cultivated rich and lasting educational partnerships using the model of our “From the Ground Up” program – a true reflection of the basic tenet of the “double bottom line” – doing well while doing good.
Click to learn more.

The STAR Center serves as a hub for Metro Parks’ adaptive and specialized recreation programs as well as a shared resource with the neighboring Gray Middle School and the Boys & Girls Club Topping HOPE Center.
Click to discover the STAR Center.
The value of all our parks and facilities is not only measured by what is contained in them or what you can do there, but by the impact it has on the well-being of our community, economy and environment.
Click to read about the impact of parks.