A PARK FOR YOUR CITY
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
The R. A. Bloch Cancer Foundation, Inc. is interested in providing funds for the development of parks dedicated to cancer survivors in metropolitan areas with populations of 1,000,000 or more.
The following are components required for consideration:
A community willing to accept a grant from the Foundation of up to a maximum of $900,000, plus $100,000 to establish a fund for perpetual maintenance. In addition to these amounts, the Foundation will donate the sculpture “Cancer…there’s hope”, the Road to Recovery and Positive Mental Attitude Walk plaques.
The responsibility for the construction and a guarantee of perpetual maintenance must be assumed by the community.
All potential locations will be reviewed and the best will be selected. In order to properly analyze potential locations, the submittal package should include:
- A map of the city with potential sites marked
- Population counts
- Photographs of each site and surrounding environment (aerial photo if possible)
- Pertinent demographic information about each site
- Sites should be approximately 1 1/2 acres and not more than two acres.
- Traffic counts on intersecting streets.
- Any other information deemed appropriate including data on unusual site conditions.
Each Park is appropriately designed to be unique and to blend in with the local environment. The community is to have plans for the approved site prepared which will be subject to approval by the Foundation. Construction should be completed within one year.
Payment schedule: $300,000 on signing of contracts, delivery of plaques and sculpture, $300,000 on beginning of construction, $300,000 on completion and $100,000 for perpetual maintenance at dedication.
After submission, a member of the Bloch Parks Committee will visit the community and inspect candidate sites. A commitment will be made quickly.
More questions? Call Vangie Rich at 816-854-4371 or vrich@hrblock.com
My two sisters and I were on vacation in Palm Springs . We visited the Survivors Park there.We shed tears of joy, hope and gratitude for such a place as this.I am a Chemo Nurse, one sister is a throut Cancer Survivor,and the third sister is a Nurse who has worked many years with Cancer.When I returned to work I presented photos of the park and sculpture. Is it ok to post them on the ward for the patients to appreciate?
I am a 5 year breast cancer survivor. While visiting Rancho Mirage recently my husband and I spotted the cancer survivor park and stopped to vist it. I was so taken by the park and the enjoyment, encouragement and peace it provided. I would very much like to pursue the possibility of a park in our hometown of Pittsburgh, PA, but don’t know where to begin. Can you provide any information as to what realistically a park would cost to build, if the the property was donated? Also, Pittsburgh has a metropolitan population (Allegheny County) of approximately 1.2 million people. Would this qualify? Any information you could provide would be most helpful in my effort to see this dream come to fruition. Thank you so much for making these parks possible. They go a long way to reinforce hope for those battling cancer.