America’s Best Idea
The National Park Foundation is proud to be a core partner and funder of the new Ken Burns documentary series, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
The film chronicles a century of giving that created national parks from southern Florida to the frozen tundra of Alaska, from the rocky coast of Maine to the volcanic Hawaiian islands. The 12-hour, six-part documentary series traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Told through the stories of the people who helped create them and save them from destruction, it is both a biography of compelling characters and of the American landscape.
Learn more at PBS.org.
America’s Best Idea Grant Program
Inspired by the film “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” the National Park Foundation has established the “America’s Best Idea Grants” program to connect underserved audiences to the national parks through digital storytelling and stewardship. The first phase of the innovative program was completed in early fall 2009, and helped build new connections between 35 national parks and their surrounding communities. Learn more about their stories here.
Long-time NPF partner and corporate supporter, Unilever, recently announced a $500,000 commitment to sponsor the next phase of the program. Read
more about their support here.
