Neighborhood Forest Inc

We want to give every child the priceless and joyful experience of planting and watching trees grow.

And, in the process, beautify our neighborhoods, remove carbon from the atmosphere, and help instill in the hearts of our little ones a sense of magic, wonder, and love for our planet.

In addition to planting trees through the hands of children, we provide custom educational content (planting instructions, species information, interactive media, children's books, board games, and more) to enrich the planting experience with STEM-based learning about the science and importance of trees, urban reforestation, and environmental stewardship.

We are growing a movement to engage our youth in climate action and community beautification.

Neighborhood Forest is one of the largest and fastest-growing tree-planting initiatives in North America that is:

🌳 Volunteer driven
🌲 Coordinated on an annual basis every spring – 14 years and running
🌳 Focused on urban and residential beautification
🌲 Involving hundreds of thousands (soon to be millions) of children and families

How did we do this?

1) Through exceptional team members and teamwork
2) By engaging and enrolling over 1,500 Neighborhood Forest Coordinator volunteers at schools, libraries, and youth groups across North America
3) By engaging and enrolling hundreds of thousands of volunteer parents, children, and families in the act of planting their very own tree
4) By investing in continuous and iterative software development, automation, and scaling infrastructure to support this growing effort
5) By forging critical partnerships with industry leaders such as UPS, Lakewinds Co-op, Deluxe, Winnebago, US Bank, and several others.
6) By attracting individual donors and philanthropists to our mission and cause
7) By garnering grassroots support from the families, institutions, and communities that we serve

These time-tested and experience-refined strategies are allowing Neighborhood Forest to grow rapidly across North America.

Join us!

First and foremost, Neighborhood Forest has an exceptional and diverse team of staff, advisors, and board members that is growing, flourishing, and allowing us to achieve our goals and aspirations.

Check out our wonderful team here: https://www.neighborhoodforest.org/about/our-team

Secondly, we have an incredible and growing network of dedicated Coordinator volunteers at 1,500+ schools, libraries, and youth groups. Through their efforts, we are able to reach countless families, parents, and children.

Thirdly, we have a growing network of over 100,000 volunteers that make our program possible. Through word of mouth and internet searches, our program is spreading rapidly.

Finally, we have critical partnerships with individuals and companies like UPS, Deluxe, Winnebago, Lakewinds Co-op, US Bank, and many others that are instrumental in helping make our program a reality.

Together, with industry, philanthropy, non-profit, education, and government, Neighborhood Forest is a multi-faceted collaborative effort made possible by the goodness and generosity of so many people, organizations, and institutions.

Since 2010, Neighborhood Forest has mobilized over 2,000 schools, libraries, and youth groups, engaged over 500,000 volunteers, and has given over 197,000 children in all 50 states (plus Canada and Mexico) the opportunity to plant their very own tree.

We are growing at a rapid rate and are on track to reach 1 million children in the next few years.

Our dream is to reach every child in North America and eventually the world.