The Greenway Foundation is a Denver-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has led efforts, since 1974, to reclaim the South Platte River and its tributaries from a virtual cesspool to a place of environmental and recreational pride.

Allow us to introduce ourselves.

Since 1974, The Greenway Foundation has led efforts to:

• Reclaim the South Platte River and its tributaries from a virtual cesspool to a place of environmental and recreational pride
• Construct more than 100 miles of hiking and biking trails
• Create 20+ parks and natural areas
• Design and build numerous whitewater boat chutes
• Vastly improve the health of the South Platte River Watershed and its habitats
• Provide environmental education to more than 80,000 school children
  
• Employ more than 100 teenagers in youth employment programs
• Host numerous community events, and annual volunteer river clean up days
• Help create over $100 million of green improvement to the South Platte River and its tributaries, facilitating over 10 billion in residential and commercial development throughout the Denver Metro area.

Mission Statement:

The Greenway Foundation (TGF) advances a sustainable water future, focusing primarily on Colorado and the western United States. TGF protects and revitalizes watersheds, promotes water stewardship, champions environmental education, stimulates innovative policies and practices while also celebrating the historic, recreational, and environmental roles involving water that flows through our communities. Since its inception, TGF has and continues to transcend cultural, political, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries, focusing on opportunities and initiatives that bind our communities together, the most vital of which is water.​

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Board of Directors

KIP STASTNY, Chairman
Property Management

BAR CHADWICK, Vice Chairman
City Planner/Project Coordinator,
City and County of Denver

BRENT APPLEBAUM, Secretary
Principal, Creativity Challenge Community (C3)

JON BRIDGES
Administrator, City of Englewood

SARAH DOMINICK
Senior Associate, Hazen and Sawyer

LARRY ELROD
Quantum Corp

FABBY HILLYARD
Government Relations

JOHN MORAN
C.P.A.

KATIE NAVIN, Ex-officio
Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education
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LESLEY ROPER
Parks & Open Space Consultant

PAULA SANDOVAL
Business Owner

PETE WEST
Xcel Energy, Retired

JEFF SHOEMAKER, Ex-officio
Executive Director