Each year, Green-Wood offers over 270 historic tours, concerts, art exhibits, and celebrations, covering its core themes of art, history, and nature, and that are open to the public. Partnerships have been forged with acclaimed arts and programming organizations from around New York City, such as the Bard Graduate Center Gallery, Rooftop Films, The Moth, Creative Time, and Pioneer Works, with the goal to create and share works that respond to the unique themes that a Cemetery presents. Green-Wood's free Memorial Day concert welcomes over 4,500 attendees every year.

Green-Wood is partnering with Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science to launch a first-of-its-kind research initiative to find practical solutions so that urban landscapes can become more resilient when faced with global warming. With its collection of over 800 trees, Green-Wood has been recognized with advancement to Level III Arboretum accreditation by ArbNet. Green-Wood's expansive grounds are home to a vast variety of birds, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and insects. The public is welcome to take part in tours, programs , and birding explorations that feature Green-Wood's flora and fauna .

Since 2006, education tours have been offered to area schools and in 2018 over 4,000 students experienced American History through the lives of our more than 570,000 permanent residents. This thematic, standards-based educational programming reaches Pre-K through 12-grade students from New York City public and private schools.

Green-Wood's commitment to conserving its historic monuments continues, with a dedicated team of restoration specialists on staff to preserve mausoleums, headstones, and other structures. In addition, through the Bridge to Craft Careers program, presented in partnership with World Monuments Fund, Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow, and the International Masonry Institute, young adults are trained in the basics of stone restoration. This program, whereby students and crew have restored several monuments, also opens up the possibility of union construction work to a traditionally underserved population. Green-Wood is also one of the host sites of the Careers in Technical Education Externship program offered by the New York City Department of Education, where high school students , trained at Green-Wood, are then sent to a cemetery in need to help in restoration projects.

The Archives and Collections web portal, collections.green-wood.com, has made available portions of Green-Wood's holdings to hundreds of virtual visitors. This portal provides access to finding aids for architectural drawings, as well as over 2,500 items from Green-Wood's Fine Art and Historical Collections. College and graduate school interns and volunteers have helped organize the cemetery's Archival records. In addition, Green-Wood's fee-based research service, Greenealogy, assists genealogists and those with family buried in the cemetery in discovering what our archives, dating back to 1838, can teach about family history.