What We Do
The Coalition founded the WWRP grant program in 1989 to address the need to preserve more land for outdoor recreation and wildlife habitat.
A state agency reviews, ranks, and distributes the grants through a competitive process that guarantees that only the best new park, habitat and farm projects are funded.
The Coalition lobbies the Governor and the Legislature, which sets the funding level and approves the final list of projects.
Since the program’s inception, the Coalition has advocated for state funding for WWRP grants, raising over $620 million for 1016 neighborhood parks and ball fields, biking and walking trails, local beaches, boat launches, wildlife, habitat, state parks and working farms. Local and federal matching funds bring the total over $1 billion.
