TreePeople

TreePeople’s Urban Forestry Regional Initiative is a program of targeted community engagement to inspire and empower local residents to take charge of their environment through urban forestry. “Citizen Foresters" are recruited, trained and supported to lead multiple planting or tree care events in their neighborhoods. With Keck Foundation support, the program is training 125 volunteer leaders and more than 2,500 volunteers to conduct over 100 planting and care events during the two-year project. Not only will Los Angeles’ urban neighborhoods become more livable, but community leaders emerge in the process, and in turn drive neighborhood improvements. Since 2007, TreePeople has targeted three areas of high environmental need: the Northeast San Fernando Valley, select areas of South Los Angeles and the Harbor/Gateway Region.