Friends of Northwest Park

06/15/2026

Behind the scenes shots of Kirk loading up the picnic tables and getting them stained and ready for this weekend. Also a couple of shots of the new security lights. The Friends are getting it done!

06/15/2026

What a busy weekend! With your giving and angels like Kirk Kolodner, we were able to add 2 more picnic tables (for a total of 5), sand and stain them and add 2 more security lights at the park (also for a total of 5).

We are also only $6800 away from paving the parking lot! Tell all your friends and neighbors! We are making good change right here but we need your change (and dollars!). We are so close!

Thank you all! Here’s the link!

Northwest Park in Baltimore needs your help! Please donate to our campaign, the neighborhood would be grateful!

06/11/2026

As many of you heard, last weekend was filled with vandalism of the old gym, destruction of picnic tables, and trash and graffiti everywhere.

But what’s great about our group is we always come back better than ever.

We replaced and reinforced the front door of the old gym and painted it.

We installed new motion sensing lights around some of the most trafficked areas.

We painted over all the graffiti, including a wall (that I have personally requested the city to paint 5 times).

We bought 3 new solid wood picnic tables and stained them.

We planted another beautiful garden of 36 native plants along West Rogers Ave.

This was all possible by volunteering and YOUR donations to our $50k campaign! The more you give, the more we can do!

We will keep fighting to keep Northwest Park beautiful!

Click the link and donate today!
https://givebutter.com/northwestpark

05/03/2026

The Friends of NW Park have been busy! We have had several weekend cleanups, clearing out debris along the parking lot in preparation to improve the area along the hillside. 💪😀

Also we have cleaned out the drainage ditches to add beautiful plantings along West Rogers and along the trail. 🌻🌾🪏

Several dead trees have been cut down along the front of the park along West Rogers and Enslow, adding beauty and improving safety. 🪾🪚

Our fundraiser has raised nearly $9000 dollars so far! Fantastic start, but we need your help to get to our 50k goal in order to pave the main areas of the parking lot, purchase plantings and continue to improve and beautify the park. Please tap the link to give anything you can! $1, $5, $20, $100…every donation helps! 🫶🏼🙌🏻🤜🏼💲

https://givebutter.com/northwestpark

Thank you so much for your support! -FONWP

02/21/2026

The park recently encountered vandals, trash dumping and plowing that left piles of trash, destruction of the buildings and the driveway. The FONWP came to the rescue this morning, cleaning up debris, trash and doing the best we could to shovel asphalt and fill in holes along the driveway.

We need your support more than ever to improve the park. Every dollar you can donate and every hour you can volunteer counts to improve our wonderful park, include repairing the driveway and parking lot. We can do this!

Tap/Click here to give: https://givebutter.com/northwestpark

Tap/Click here to learn more and volunteer: https://www.fonwp.org/

02/14/2026

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! We want to show our ❤️ today to all the wonderful folks who donated to our campaign launched in January! Thank you so much to everyone who has donated, we have raised over $5000 so far, 10 percent of our goal! 🥰

With the ❄️ and ice, the parking lot is going to be completely obliterated after the lot gets plowed. There was also an incident with a trailer left that has left a massive hole in the middle of the long driveway. 😔

Please share this campaign and donate if you haven't already, every penny (ok every nickel since we don't have pennies anymore!) will go towards fixing the parking lot and making our park a destination for everyone. Click below to donate and share to all your friends! Have a wonderful weekend!

Northwest Park in Baltimore needs your help! Please donate to our campaign, the neighborhood would be grateful!

01/17/2026

Big News!!! Friends of Northwest Park is launching a $50,000 campaign to finally fix the parking lot and upgrade our park! We are kicking off Phase I tonight and need your help! Tap the link here to donate. Thank you! https://givebutter.com/northwestpark 🦋🐾🌲⚽️⚾️🛝🪁🥅🚴

01/09/2026

We want to thank Councilman Isaac Yitzy Schleifer's office and especially Mora Perl for all the tremendous help to get a security light turned on at Northwest Park. Since the light has been turned on a month ago, the amount of late night nefarious activities has decreased tremendously. We appreciate the partnership and look forward to all the great things to come at Northwest Park! 💡🌳

01/02/2024

Hi everyone - happy New Year! Thanks to all who have supported Friends of Northwest Park and participated in our events over the past year. The Farmer's Market is going strong every Sunday - please come on down and enjoy bountiful produce, local food items and crafts. Please visit fonwp.org for more info.

04/12/2021

Hi! While the order was for 41 trees including 11 Carolina Silverbells that we did not receive and some substitutions were made to the order, we managed to plant 30 trees at the Rogers Avenue area and near the Enslow baseball field.

It was a productive day with its share of drama. An auger called a Dingo turned over on the slopes next to the baseball field. No one was hurt and the City Forestry folks were able to send a logging truck with a crane to right the Dingo. The Division Street Landscaping crew who was doing the augering pitched in to help dig holes for the remaining trees on the slope.

Ted Martello, Fred Chalfant, Matthew Rescott, and Charles Murphy were on hand from Tree Baltimore and City Forestry to drop off the trees, lead Treekeeper training sessions and supervise the planting. They had one training session each for two groups of volunteers and the trees were their practice.

Ellen O'Brien and Jill Yesko -- Mt. Washington Treekeeper alumni -- were also on hand to lend a hand and advice. Wendy Olsson, Jeff Call and Dana Valery came by to help out as well. The Treekeeper trainees included Lisa Kopf, Stafford Oliver, Sam Zeidman and others from all over the City (from South Baltimore to North Harford Road).

Thanks to everyone who was able to come out and support the effort. If you were there and I missed you, please let me know.

A special thanks to Ellen O'Brien for her initiative and help in planning (Miss Utility, Division Street Landscaping, and Tool Bank tools pickup and drop off to name some of the activities) and pulling this off. Thanks also to her son, Patrick, who pitched in for both sessions.

If you missed coming out on Saturday to plant the trees, we will need help with watering and caring for the trees that were planted. We will be watching the trees closely to help them through the Cicada surge and a hot summer. If you can help with any of these activities let me know.