A Fiscal Year End Update on The Greenway and Greenway Conservancy
With the recent completion of our FY15 audit and the publication of our Annual Report, we wanted to update two overview blog posts we wrote last year. The first of those blog posts outlined the public-private model that governs The Greenway. We discussed the Conservancy’s history, how the private sector has shouldered a greater funding […]
Greenway Conservancy 201
In a blog post 2 months ago, we gave an overview of the public-private partnership that has produced the beautiful, vibrant Greenway. We explained how the dedicated non-profit model for The Greenway is different in Massachusetts, how the private sector has embraced a greater funding responsibility for the public park than originally anticipated, and how […]
What’s the Deal with The Greenway Anyway?
The Greenway is operated differently from almost all other parks in the Commonwealth. The Greenway is entirely maintained, programmed, and improved not by government but by a non-profit—the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy. Elsewhere in the country, the conservancy model is common for signature parks, such as the Friends of the High Line in New York […]