Are You Like Cynthia?
Do you want to bring greening to your community or are you already working on a citizen-led greenspace project? Baltimore City offers many resources and programs to help you do more, as do our many partner organizations and allies . . .
Baltimore City
Baltimore Green Network
The Baltimore Green Network is a City-led effort to use sustainable, innovative, and cost-effective practices for stabilizing and holding land for redevelopment, and reusing vacant land to green neighborhoods, reduce stormwater runoff, grow food, and create community spaces that mitigate the negative impacts of vacant properties and set the stage for growing Baltimore.
Tree Baltimore
Baltimore city’s program for coordinating all tree plantings by city agencies, non‑profit organizations, neighborhoods, and community associations.
Partners + Allies
Baltimore Green Space partners with communities to preserve and support community gardens, forest patches, pocket parks, and other open spaces managed by city residents
Parks & People Foundation supports greening projects in dozens of neighborhoods throughout Baltimore and offers grant funds, technical resources and educational opportunities to help residents transform their communities from within.
Baltimore Tree Trust works to restore Baltimore’s tree canopy by collaborating with the city’s TreeBaltimore program, nonprofit partners, private landowners, city residents, and businesses.
Deep Blue is an innovative partnership between Blue Water Baltimore, the Neighborhood Design Center, the City and local neighborhoods to identify and implement greening projects on public and private land that advance community priorities in Greater Highlandtown, Greater Mondawmin, Oliver, Cherry Hill, and Belair-Edison.
Baltimore Orchard Project strengthens communities through planting and cultivating orchards, teaching neighbors to be long-term stewards, and sharing the harvest.
The 6th Branch harnesses the leadership of military veterans to execute aggressive community service initiatives in Baltimore City, including Operation Oliver, the Bethel St. Playscape, the Oliver Community Farm, and the rebuilding of Ambrose Kennedy Park in Johnston Square.
Neighborhood Design Center provides access to free design services in underserved communities in Baltimore City, working in collaboration with neighborhood groups, government agencies and fellow nonprofits to support locally driven initiatives for neighborhoods pursuing improved quality of life within their built environments.
Baltimore Green Works seeks to increase awareness about how local residents can make the Baltimore region cleaner and environmentally safer for all who live and work here.
Details Deconstruction is a social enterprise of Humanim that employs people with barriers to employment for deconstruction and reclamation of blighted and abandoned properties in Baltimore City.
Greater Baltimore Wilderness Coalition is an alliance of public agencies, non-governmental organizations, professional associations, and conservation groups devoted to conserving a connected green infrastructure network in central Maryland.
(Photo by Taylor Evans/New Lens.)