Taking Action With Us

 Discounted native plant prices for members.  Claim your listing as a professional member with benefits.  Volunteer for community service.  Donate to support our work in parks & resources conservation. 

Community Service Credits & Certificates - Become A Volunteer

Your don't need to be an expert, just spend time observing, monitoring, and completing our online form. Also let us know of any deadlines.

• Review A Park -  Receive 4 hours of community service for 4 hours of time well spent. You'll be out in the field taking notes and photos of a Long Island based park or natural area.  The data collected will be used to update Long Island Parks. 
• Review A Park Resource -  Receive 4 hours of community service for 4 hours of time well spent.  You'll be reviewing a Park Resource either by website review or talking to them (for those who don't have websites).   Remember to consider the entire website when reviewing.
•  UPCOMING -  We will need volunteers for the upcoming growing season, contact us with your interest. 

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Discounted Native Plant Prices - Become A Member - Benefits

Quality Parks maintains a Long Island native plant nursery and we also do field testing to determine what native plants are better suited to changing climate conditions, deer browsing, and drought conditions. ​ Match our native plants sales with a generous donation, so that we can expand our reach to local markets and other venues where we also sell tick bite prevention products.

Donors support us in our vision to transition lawns to more diverse natural landscapes.  Support natural solutions to climate change.

Donors support our advocacy efforts to stop penalizing folks from converting lawns to natural landscapes.

• receive a  newsletter with timely inside  information and involvement opportunities
• also save with a 25% discount from our native plant nursery, including  additional discounts in natural landscape consulting services
• access to our private base for immediate as-it-happens date on:
  • State of our LI Parks and Park Resources (what's doing great and needs analysis)
  • What's Doing (inner workings of Quality Parks, from meetings to tasks) 
  • Calendar (where members can post events and coordinate with comments)

Claim Your Listing - Become A Professional Member -  Benefits

• In addition to the membership benefits, we provide a customized newsletter, and:
  
  • Basic Members - one logo, tagline, speciality, and contact information
    
  • Basic Plus Members adds in more categories and Submit About Us form
    
  • Enhanced Members - add in Submit Corrections, photos, social media, and more. 
    

Bee Friendly Native Plant Nursery

Become A Member

By mail: make check payable to Quality Parks, and mail to: Quality Parks, 322 East Broadway; Port Jefferson, NY 11777

Support Parks & Park Resources Conservation - Become a Donor - Benefits

Quality Parks provides vetted information about the State of Long Island Parks & Park Resources, with an overarching question of how we use  needs analysis to further investigate and advocate for improved stewardship.   We also draw attention to the many park resources on Long Island doing environmental good.

How do we collect our data? Volunteer community scientists provide reviews of local parks and park resource website. Volunteers come from all walks of life, and can be based on or off Long Island.  We encourage their involvement and provide them with community service credits.

The problem for us is that they are volunteers, and we also have the additional cost of reviewing and maintaining our knowledge base.
We're seeking in kind matches.  Volunteers provide 4 hours of community service for each review, valued at $30/hour according to online sources. We are requesting a match of $120 per student to help cover out costs. ​

Please Show Your Support & Donate

As a donor, you receive a customized newsletter focused on ongoing achievements. With  no staff, we rely on self-employed persons to perform services as non-employees when funds come in. Quality Parks is a  fully recognized 501(c)(3) charity since 2000.  We provide a train-the-trainer atmosphere, striving to improve abilities in land, water, and marine conservation stewardship.

Quality Parks is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity, based in Port Jefferson. 
​Your financial contributions support  improved stewardship of Long Island parks and park resources. ​