Amigos De Los Rios

“A copy of form 990 is provided to the board of directors at a regular board meeting for review.”

“The president reviews the conflict of interest statements annually.”

“The compensation of the president is approved by the board with the annual budget. Compensation of executives at similar organizations is used to determine compensation.”

“The governing documents and annual financial statements are available to the general public upon request at the organization office.”

“Our mission is to create a regional emerald necklace of sustainable open spaces along urban rivers corridors that connects the mountains to the sea -protecting the environment and public health while strengthening community life for the benefit of current and future generations. We are committed to designing quality public environments that revitalize urban neighborhoods within economically disadvantaged southern california communities. We believe that creating parks and trails and improving the built environment of the city is the best form of preventive health for urban residents: access to recreation is a key factor in protecting the public health.”

“At any given time we have multiple park implementation projects in process. Currently, we have a major greenway in development along the san gabriel river, a trail along the rio hondo, several multi joint use school projects, multiple municipal and county park retrofits, tree planting initiatives, and a state of the art preventive health wellness center. One of the highlights of the 2013 year was the completion and opening of two emerald necklace tot parks and nature trails, these parks are part of a three year -six parks project for first 5 la on a series of parks and trails for 0 to 5 year old children in disadvantaged areas of the county. Each one of these projects is inspired by deep community involvement in developing meaningful public spaces. The remaining four tot park and nature trail implementations are underway and scheduled to open within the next year;ahead of the scheduled project end date. Projects recently completed and/or currently underway include: 1) two projects with the state through the strategic growth council, california natural resources agency to improve and expand the emerald necklace regional park network, 2) emerald necklace multi-benefit parks & greenway project san gabriel river, 3) cal trans environmental enhancement & mitigation program, 4) los angeles county regional park and open space district prop a projects, 5) la plaza de cultural y artes/ la plaza-city founder trail implementation between main and spring streets in los angeles, 6) usgvmwd feasibility study, 7) wildspaces 2013-14 san gabriel mountains national recreation area, 8) an emerald necklace feasibility project with the state rivers and mountains conservancy, 9) working on the creation of joint use parks in the city of el monte with funds from the california community foundation, 10) emerald necklace weekly stewardship volunteer events- working with community organizations and local corporations to maintain the parks of the emerald necklace while educating local youth on native plant care and environmental issues with our sponsors rei, ralphs grocery and southern california edison.”