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Causes: Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Environment, Environmental Education, Forest Conservation, Land Resources Conservation
Mission: The Park People's mission is to work with communities to plant trees and improve parks for a healthy, resilient future.
Results: Since 1969, we have engaged our community in completing more than 50 capital improvement projects in parks and planting more than 65,000 trees that provide over $60 million in community benefits. Home of park improvement projects and the Denver Digs Trees, Mile High Tree Champions, Community Forester, TreeForce, and Park Legacy programs.
Target demographics: all Denverites, particularly community members living in low-canopy neighborhoods
Geographic areas served: Denver
Programs: We improve parks by raising funds for park projects, like the reconstruction of the Cranmer Park Sundial & Plaza, and we support the urban forest through our programs: Denver Digs Trees, Mile High Tree Champions, TreeForce, Community Forester, and the Park Legacy program.