The groups behind the citys largest parks are lending their much smaller city cousins a lot of green thumbs.

The parks department said eight conservancies, such as the Central Parks Conservancy, Friends of the Highline and the Prospect Park Alliance, have met or exceeded their combined $15 million commitments to the citys Community Parks Initiative, which launched in 2014 to provide funding and resources to improve smaller parks in the city.

Kate Spellman, a senior adviser for the parks department, said in addition to providing extra funding, the nonprofits have provided landscape experts and training that will benefit all the open-space locations in the five boroughs.

Theyre not just going in and completing an improvement and disappearing. Theyre improving with our staff so they are teaching, she said.

State Sen. Daniel Squadron, who proposed the initiative, predicted that this partnership will grow.

Our system of parks is strengthened by its conservancies, he said in a statement.

Some of the improvements made by the conservancies since 2015:

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NYC park conservancies make progress with Community Parks Initiative - amNY