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05.06.09 Photograph A National Park Or Federal Land And Win Big
The National Park Foundation Launches 2009 Share the Experience Photo Contest, and Encourages Amateur Photographers and Nature Lovers to Submit Photos of Great Park Moments
04.22.09 National Park Foundation Teaches Local Kids To Plant Natives As Part Of First Bloom Program Supported By ARAMARK
04.20.09 What Can You Do To Celebrate Earth Week?
National Park Foundation Offers Top 5 Things You Can Do During Earth Week And National Park Week

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The National Parks: America’s Best Idea

The National Park Foundation is proud to be a major funder of the new Ken Burns documentary series, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The film chronicles a century of giving that created and endowed this uniquely American innovation. Learn more »

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Who We Help

The Flight 93 National Memorial, one of America’s newest national parks, is a sacred ground where we remember the events of September 11, 2001. Learn more.

Who Helps Us

ARAMARK, a professional services organization and leading concessionaire of parks, resorts and hospitality services, has helped secure a $1 million grant through the Yawkey Foundation to the National Park Foundation as the initial and lead sponsor of First Bloom.

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For more than 100 years, private philanthropy has been helping to improve, preserve, and protect Americas National Parks.

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Rina Swentzell A Native American artist and scholar helps envision our national lands—through the eyes of native people

The Next 100 Years To celebrate nearly a century of America’s public parklands, the National Park Foundation convened hundreds of thought leaders to prepare for challenges in the years ahead

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