After a year of service as our Interim Executive Director, Rebecca Brightly is handing off executive duties and advancing to a new opportunities. Rebecca is succeeded by Brady Romberg.
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We have some exciting news to share: we've begun the search for a new Executive Director.
As your interim ED, I've been very grateful to serve the community in a time of need. Over the past eight months the staff and board have put in loads of effort to streamline and improve our operations. Now it's time to pass the torch.
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After three years as executive director, Cordelia Hollingsworth informed the board that they would be stepping down from their position to pursue other career opportunities. We are grateful to Cordelia as they led the organization during a time of immense change and transition.
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Parkour Visions recently shared the design for Seattle’s first parkour park. Green-lit by the City of Seattle, this community-driven design is a huge win! For years, we’ve dreamed of a central gathering area for PNW parkour practitioners. We can now move forward with a park that will also provide a great playspace for our neighbors of all ages and abilities.
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We are one step closer to Seattle’s first parkour park! The City of Seattle has provided “conditional approval” for our community-driven design—that’s government-speak for a green light. Click to read more and see the designs.
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Portland Parks Foundation recognized the incredible benefit PKV and parkour bring to our community and provided a $2,000 grant for scholarships for Portland families. This grant helps ensure cost is not a barrier to lifelong healthy movement.
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Finally! PKV shirts and hoodies are back, and you can get them here. For our 15th anniversary, we've updated our vintage "arrow swarm" design. It comes in 9 different styles and a ton of great colors for youth and adults.
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We received incredible support from new and returning community members and surpassed our goal! Thanks to a small group of matching donors, the grand total of our 2022 end-of-year campaign was $30,182!
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In September, we asked you to email the Seattle city council and urge them to fund the $7.7 million redevelopment of Garfield Super Block. Your efforts were successful! GSB was included in the budget, though it’s not yet fully funded. Read on to learn what’s next.
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Garfield Super Block, future home of Seattle’s first parkour park, is roughly one year away from breaking ground on the park renovation. They’ve raised half of the money they need for construction. To get to the finish line, they need our support.
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After nine months of hard work, we’ve served our promised amount of 400 youth in partnerships with eight different organizations, six of which were cultivated specifically through the efforts of this grant. In total, we ran 22 workshops and nine series of classes varying between 4–12 weeks in length over the duration of the grant.
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Parkour Visions has been trying for years to get a parkour park built in Seattle. Last summer, we connected with the Garfield Super Block Coalition and other organizations to help advance the GSB redevelopment project and support our mutual goal: creating more inclusive, all-ages community play spaces.
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Are you or your teen looking for a way to spend time playing outdoors and giving back to your community? Join us as a volunteer Summer Camp Assistant!
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We’ve just released our Annual Report for 2021. Inside, you can find detailed information on our impact and financials, as well as some of our favorite photos from last year. Below is a letter from our executive director, Cordelia Hollingsworth.
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After receiving the Youth and Amateur Sports Grant (YASG), Dan Dye joined the PKV team to began to look at ways to use the YASG to connect with low-income and communities of color in Seattle. Check out some of the organizations we’ve collaborated with!
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Last month, we wrapped up our Movement For All fundraising campaign. We set a community challenge to raise $10k by December 31, matching another $10k raised by a small pool of donors.
And guess what? You totally smashed that challenge! In total, we raised over $23,000!
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Exciting news! In September, King County Parks awarded Parkour Visions a $38,000 Youth and Amateur Sports Grant (YASG). This award will fund free parkour classes and events in Seattle, especially for low-income and youth of color.
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We’ve redesigned, rebranded, and released all of our content for free! Covid almost tanked us, but the community has provided incredible enthusiasm and financial support. Because of your support, all of our videos and other content are now freely accessible.
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When I look back at the year 2020, what stands out the most to me is the importance of community. Read on to find out what we accomplished last year, and what we look forward to in 2021.
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We're excited to announce that we are working with Forge Parkour to open a new Parkour Visions branch in Portland!
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