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 "emerald necklace" multi objective greenway in development along the san gabriel, rio hondo and lower los angeles river. Highlights of 2016 include the start of our green infrastructure/urban forestry projects. Projects include transformation of a former elementary school in el monte into the seymour family wellness center. We continued our work at university of southern california on a state of the art wellness center park and trail and we focused on tree planting and improving urban forest canopy at underserved schools and parks of east county. . In 2016, the construction on the wellness center park and fitness trail at the historic university of southern california/los angeles county hospital was underway. It will be used by doctors as a prescription for patients who suffer from chronic illnesses related to lack of exercise. This is the first of three phases of work to be completed at the wellness center site. Phase two and three will be completed in 2016. Projects recently completed and/or currently underway include: 1) tree planting at school campuses along the san gabriel river, rio hondo and throughout cities of the emerald necklace region-east county los angeles, 2) emerald necklace multi-benefit parks & greenway project san gabriel river, 3) los angeles county regional park and open space district prop a projects, 4) habitat restoration at peck water conservation park, 5) prop a altadena monument project, 6) wildspaces 2016 san gabriel mountains national monument community collaborative planning initiative, 7) 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, union bank, southern california edison and southern california gas company, 8) the wellness center at the historic university of southern california/ los angeles county hospital funded by california state parks department and los angeles county regional park and open space district, 9) california department of forestry and fire (cal fire) tree planting, 10)california natural resources agency environmental enhancement & mitigation program.”