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Making an impact

Working together to positively impact our San Diego and Southern California community, we advocate for the expansion of parks and greenspaces which enhance community quality of life, health, wellness and education.

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The Alliance

Key Stakeholders
The Board of Directors and Advisory Board work together with our members to shape the implementation of the mission by evaluating programs, guiding the research agenda, assisting with fundraising and marketing efforts, providing guidance on community impact and educational activities, and helping set the overall strategic direction for our efforts.

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Directors

Joy Lyndes
Executive Director

Joy is a community advocate with a background in creating parks and greenspaces THAT promote community health and well-being. She founded The Alliance in 2013 in alignment with the belief that human health is irrevocably tied to nature and when we build healthy environments we build healthy communities.

Prior to The Alliance she founded Coastal SAGE Landscape Architecture and SAGE Landscape Architecture & Environmental. Business achievements include receiving the Wells Fargo Copper Cactus Award for Business Growth 2 years in a row, President's Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Arizona Chapter; and invitations to speak at national ASLA conference on the topics of Serving Native American Communities and Greenways as Economic Drivers. Her long career leading design teams, coalescing communities, directing innovation in design and teaching students has led her to this milestone juncture – where she translates three decades of professional experience into the singular focus of building healthy places for communities.

Connecting people with parks - engaging communities to create healthy greenspaces - building environments that improve everyday life are the most prominent ways Joy uses her creativity to prepare communities for a healthier future. By combining her talents as an innovator, educator, naturalist and artist, Joy hopes to create a world where both nature and human health are abundant. She lives to help communities become wiser by working together to find new and creative ways to push good ideas into action.

Advisory Board
We are fortunate to be in the process of forming an active advisory board whose members will play a critical role in strategic planning and philanthropy. Stay tuned for updates.

Community Collaborators

Southern California is honored with abundant community health, parks, environmental and education institutions and partners. A few of the potential community collaborators are listed below.
  • USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences Institute for NonProfit Education and Research 
    www.sandiego.edu/soles/centers-and-research/nonprofit
  • Civic San Diego
  • Center for Creative Land Recycling www.cclr.org/
  • San Diego Non Profits www.sandiegononprofits.org
  • San Diego Community College District*
  • The New School for Architecture & Design
  • Walkable San Diego
  • San Diego Water Authority
  • CA State Parks Forward
  • Cool California
  • Land Use / Real Estate Specialist
  • Playful City USA

  • San Diego River Parks Foundation
  • Tourism and Visitor’s Bureau
  • BEEP San Diego
  • Rails to Trails Conservancy
  • The REI Foundation
  • Council on Foundations
  • I Love a Clean San Diego
  • LandPaths*
  • CA Conservation Corps The San Diego Center*
  • National Audubon Society
  • The Greenway Foundation
  • Wildlands Restoration Volunteers
  • WILDCOAST
  • Volunteers for Outdoor California

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For information on individual and business membership opportunities, contact us today.

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