The Madison Parks Foundation announced that it has received gifts totaling more than $500,000, which will be gifted to the city of Madison Parks Division. This gift will fund the construction and provide maintenance for a water sprayground at the Jeff Erlanger Accessible Playground at Rennebohm Park. Construction is expected to begin in the spring of 2024.
This gift builds upon the Foundation’s Accessible and Inclusive Parks and Playgrounds initiative, which has provided funding to add five accessible playgrounds across the community that include the Frautschi Family Accessible Playground at Warner Park, Jenni and Kyle Foundation Playground at Brittingham Park, Elver Accessible Playground, the Jeff Erlanger Accessible Playground and Splash Park at Rennebohm Park, and in 2025 an accessible playground at Reindahl Park.
These playgrounds offer more than 100,000 Madison households access to a fully accessible playground within a two-mile radius of their home and offer children of all abilities the opportunity to play together.
Madison Parks Foundation’s vision is to make parks accessible and welcome for all to enjoy Madison’s over 280 public parks and greenspaces. This means addressing physical, cognitive, and socioeconomic obstacles that keep people from reaching and enjoying parks.
Key donors to these accessible playground and parks projects include the Oscar Rennebohm Foundation, W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, Pleasant Rowland Foundation, Jenni and Kyle Foundation, Steve Stricker American Family Insurance Foundation, Evjue Foundation, Madison Community Foundation, Festival Foods, and many community members.
