Setting Targets and Continuing to Grow

TreesCharlotte Mission
TreesCharlotte is a public/private nonprofit collaboration to grow, diversify and steward the city’s iconic urban forest. Trained volunteers and science-based programs teach residents about the value of trees and how to plant and care for them.
TreesCharlotte Vision
TreesCharlotte’s vision is 50 percent canopy coverage, city-wide acceptance of responsibility to plant and care for trees and sustained funding to continue the mission generation to generation.
TreesCharlotte Methodology
- Promoting benefits of trees: increasing healthy air, saving electricity, mitigating storm water runoff and creating visual beauty and shade
- Building and preserving tree canopy throughout the community with special attention to underserved areas
- Engaging diverse neighborhoods to join the effort
- Developing “ownership”
- Providing group bonding experiences
- Educational opportunities for children and adults about trees
- Collaborating with other organizations to build tree awareness
- Strong, mutually beneficial partnership with the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
- Providing research focused on trees
- Financial accountability