TreesLouisville

Louisville is one of the fastest-warming cities in the nation, and much of that is due to the loss of our trees. A strong, healthy urban forest isn’t just about beauty ... it means cleaner air, cooler streets, healthier families, and stronger neighborhoods.

This Give For Good Louisville, your gift will support The Canopy Center, a new community and operations hub that will strengthen our ability to plant and care for trees, train volunteers, educate residents, and expand our work in the Louisville neighborhoods that need trees most.

The Canopy Center is More Than a Building

TreesLouisville has outgrown its current space. We no longer have enough room for the people, trees, equipment, training, and partnerships needed to meet growing community demand.

The Canopy Center will transform a vacant warehouse at 700 E. Kentucky Street in Shelby Park into a permanent home for the year-round work of growing and caring for Louisville’s urban forest.

Without this building, our limited space will increasingly restrict our ability to fulfill our mission and meet the growing demand for our programs and services. The Canopy Center will give TreesLouisville the foundation needed to serve more neighborhoods, care for more trees, and engage more people in this work.

We know it can be hard to see the bigger picture when there are so many important needs in our community. Trees take time to grow, and some of their greatest benefits may not be fully realized for ten years or more.

But when you support TreesLouisville, you are doing more than helping the canopy grow. You are investing in the health, comfort, and resilience of future generations. You are helping create neighborhoods with more shade, cooler streets, less stormwater runoff, cleaner air, and fewer heat-related health risks.

The trees we plant and care for today are a promise to the people who will live beneath them tomorrow.

Our Mission is to improve the health and quality of life of Louisville's current and future generations through a robust, equitable, and diverse tree canopy.

Our Vision is to create a greener, healthier, and more equitable Louisville where every community thrives under the shade of a flourishing urban canopy.