Donate-a-Bench - Los Angeles Parks Foundation

NOTICE: The Los Angeles Parks Foundation is suspending its Donate-a-Bench Program until 2024.

We are no longer accepting applications for the Donate-a-Bench Program. We appreciate your understanding and encourage you to support our mission through our other programs: Adopt A Park, Park Forests and Friends of the Parks.

Please stay tuned to our website for updates on our next steps for 2024.

Thank you for supporting your local parks.

— Bench Donation —	— Plaque —
Donation Level: $6,000.00 USD	Donation Level: $3,000.00 USD

This option allows the installation of a beautiful new 6-foot “recycled materials” (synthetic wood) bench in the city park location of your choosing. A limited number of steel benches may be available upon request. Along with the bench, a customized bronze plaque is included as part of this option.	This option allows the installation of a customized bronze plaque on any existing city park bench of your choosing. Benches that already have plaques are not eligible. We do not maintain a full list or catalogue of available benches, but can make recommendations upon request.

The location of your bench must be inside a Los Angeles city park—this excludes county parks, state parks, MCRA parks, among others. To verify if your preferred location is a Los Angeles city park, please visit the Department of Recreation & Parks website: https://www.laparks.org/

Dedication Plaque Details:

In recognition of your gift, a dedication plaque with your personalized inscription will be mounted on your bench. Our standard dedication plaque measures 3” x 12” and can accommodate up to 211 characters (3 lines) of text, about 65-69 characters per line. Our logo will appear on the fourth line. We kindly request no birth or death dates be listed on the plaques.

Bench Program Terms & Conditions:

From the date of installation, maintenance of your plaque is limited to 10 years, and may be replaced only once if it has been damaged or vandalized. Upon expiration of the 10-year period, you have the option to renew your donation. The plaque will remain in place even if you choose not to renew, but maintenance is not indefinitely guaranteed.
New benches can no longer be installed on trails, canyons, bluffs, beaches, or any remote location where installation or long-term maintenance will be extremely challenging.
New benches must be compliant with federal law as delineated in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This means the bench must be adjacent to an existing path or walkway that provides clear access to the bench for people of varying abilities.
Upon installation, all benches and plaques become property of the City of Los Angeles, and are maintained by the Department of Recreation & Parks. Neither the donor, nor the Los Angeles Parks Foundation, has any claim to ownership of either the bench or the plaque.
We cannot guarantee how long the approval process or installation process will take, and there are likely other applications in the queue ahead of yours. Please be patient and expect the whole process, start to finish, will take several months.