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La salud del entorno que nos rodea depende de que cada miamense ponga de su parte. El Informe Our Miami de 2014 lo dejó claro, mostrando cómo nuestra inversión en soluciones de transporte, espacios públicos y recursos naturales, entre otras muchas áreas, afecta a nuestra calidad de vida y al bienestar del paisaje urbano que nos rodea. Nuestro objetivo aquí en The Miami Foundation es construir un gran Miami... Read More

El apoyo a los parques y a los espacios públicos renovados en el Gran Miami es cada vez mayor. En todo el condado, los residentes aprecian más que nunca cómo estos lugares contribuyen al bienestar de su comunidad. Prueba de este movimiento son las más de 330 propuestas y 50 finalistas del Desafío del Espacio Público 2015 de la Fundación Miami. Desde esculturas con asientos a la sombra y energía solar hasta ... Read More

Basta una rápida búsqueda en Twitter de #bike305 para darse cuenta de la floreciente escena ciclista local que ha arraigado en Miami. A medida que se disparaba el número de entusiastas del ciclismo, Malone Matson quiso poner de su parte para fomentar la creciente tendencia. Malone obtuvo una subvención Public Space Challenge de la Miami Foundation para colocar estaciones de reparación de bicicletas en ... Read More

This Sunday in Northeast Miami-Dade, residents of the La Paloma neighborhood will put on their carnival masks and costumes, join drummers and dancers, and create their very own Caribbean festival. There’s a harvest to celebrate, including abundant cucumbers and kale from their own front lawns. Last year, La Paloma won a Public Space Challenge grant from The Miami Foundation to … Read More

If you’re thinking of applying to this year’s Public Space Challenge, or want to refine your idea before submission, we have a host of events to help you get the information you need. Here’s a rundown of the 2015 Challenge, which is open March 4th through April 5th for ideas that create, improve and activate Miami-Dade’s parks, plazas, libraries, community … Read More

The Public Space Challenge turns three this year.  Over the last month of events leading to today’s launch, I’ve watched the mounting community-wide excitement.  It’s a testament to how Greater Miami took this idea and ran with it. In 2013, we set out to create a unique platform for funding new and enhanced public spaces.  Both the 2012 and 2014 … Read More

The Miami Foundation released the 2014 Our Miami Report last October to fuel community solutions, foster collaborations and advance efforts improving Miami-Dade County residents’ quality of life.  Charisse Grant, senior vice president for programs,shared earlier about the countless passionate people in our community working diligently on issues highlighted in the Report.  We developed a way to recognize individuals, groups and … Read More

This idea was literally born on a balcony. Years ago, Alex Macias would sit outside his apartment overlooking Bayfront Park, and think about how to make those 32 waterfront acres a real, honest to goodness, daily, can’t miss destination for the people of Miami. For Macias, who grew up going to the Kendall Hot Wheels, addicted to its Monday skate … Read More

This month, our fellow Miamians are providing three more ways to enjoy our public spaces. You can grab your roller skates for a fun night in Downtown, visit a 1.2 mile loop of community gardens or enjoy the lights as they illuminate what supporters hope will ultimately be a 10 mile linear park along US 1. Each of these projects … Read More

There is much for Miami to be confident about: our vibrant culture, strength in diversity, an expanding, globally focused economy. It’s time we added philanthropy to that list.  Give Miami Day 2014 raised $5.2 million for 520 local nonprofits in the most active day of giving in Southeast U.S. history. But it did something else for our community – in … Read More