Canopy

Join us for a tree walk in Mountain View's Cuesta Park this Saturday, November 2! Enjoy the fall foliage with friends and family as arborist Katherine Naegele introduces us to the variety of tree species in the park 🌳 Register at https://lnkd.in/g9wSZmFF

San Mateo area folks - Are you passionate about trees, urban gardening and climate justice? To learn how important our tree canopy is to a warming climate, San Mateo County Libraries will partner with the urban forestry advocates Canopy to host tree walks, bilingual gardening workshops, listening sessions, as well as climate justice presentations at several libraries. Canopy is a local non-profit whose mission is to grow the urban tree canopy in the Mid-Peninsula for the benefit of all. I am SO excited about this Sustainable California Libraries project! 🌲 ✊ 💙 #SustainableCALibraries San Mateo County Libraries California State Library #CaliforniaLibraries https://lnkd.in/gfNM7HAh

Envision yourself in a Green Career! Join Canopy starting tonight, October 16, for a 4-part virtual speaker series featuring a diverse group of professionals in the environmental sector. Geared toward Bay Area high school students and young adults interested in environmental careers, you will hear from a range of panelists as they talk about their work in fields such as policy, community advocacy, conservation, and urban forestry. Learn more and register at https://lnkd.in/emjnNvE4

Thank you The Almanac for covering our expanding work in Belle Haven! “Canopy sees trees as not just an aesthetic boon to neighborhoods, but as a public health investment. This is especially true in historically under-resourced communities throughout the Peninsula, where trees are often scarce.” https://lnkd.in/gz7Tu7ds

As trees support one another, so must community forestry nonprofits. Canopy is proud to stand next to Tree San Diego as they celebrate their 10-year anniversary! Congratulations Elektra F. and the Tree San Diego team for planting 10,000 trees in service to their communities!

"Each tree planted is a step towards a healthier, more vibrant future for Belle Haven, and we’re excited to continue this journey together.” - Jean-Paul Renaud, Executive Director Canopy wishes to thank InMenlo for featuring our All Five and Belle Haven Community Planting! Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gBAyusGD

🌳Join our team as the Education Intern! This role will support Canopy’s Education Team, particularly the Adult Education Coordinator and K-12 Environmental Educator. By the end of the internship, our Education Intern will have gained experience in program preparation, design, and implementation, as well as classroom management and adult engagement strategies. https://lnkd.in/g9N-ksqC

This fall, Canopy has been invited to send two Teen Urban Foresters (TUFs) and three staff members to represent us at the Partners in Community Forestry Conference in Chicago! Urban forestry leaders from across the country will hear directly from TUFs and Canopy staff about our powerful model for equity-centered, community-based youth leadership development. The team will also have the opportunity to connect with and learn from other leaders in community forestry, bringing the best ideas and solutions for sustainable urban greening back to their community. Canopy launched a Miles on a Mission campaign to help our TUFs and staff travel to Chicago. Through this campaign, you can donate your United Airlines MileagePlus miles and make it possible for these five environmental justice leaders to attend the conference! If you’re able to support, please donate by October 11, 2024. https://lnkd.in/gUb5UKVp

Thank you to the 32 volunteers, 15 Teen Urban Foresters, and Canopy staff who helped plant 20 trees at our East Palo Alto Neighborhood Planting on September 14th. It filled our hearts to see so many people come together on a Saturday morning to take action for our local urban forest. What a beautiful way to kick off the new planting season! Check out this great group photo from the planting by DJ Stamper, Treasured Visions. DJ captured the essence of the planting wonderfully, snapping photos of smiling faces, teamwork, and community connection. These 20 trees are just the start of our new planting season. It takes many hands to steward our urban forests, so we hope you will join us at an upcoming tree planting or tree care event. Learn about and sign up for our upcoming events at canopy.org/events

Dear friends, Today marks my one-year anniversary since joining Canopy as its Executive Director. It has been a transformative year, learning from a talented team that works every day to plant trees and inspire diverse communities to champion and care for their urban forest. It’s been an emotional year, listening and learning from people about the work Canopy has accomplished so far, and the work that lies ahead. And it’s been an inspiring year, as we dream of Canopy's next chapter.  Canopy is more than just an organization; it is a community movement made up of the very people we aim to power – working in partnership towards a more equitable, sustainable, and rewarding green future.  Together, we can write the next chapter for Canopy - one where we create invested communities through planting more trees, greening more neighborhoods, listening and engaging more people, being present in more schools, and providing meaningful job skills that uplift individuals and their communities. In the coming year, Canopy will take a look at our mission, vision and strategic plan with a new lens so that we can align with the realities of the communities we work in and the changed climate we live in. We believe that everyone who wants a tree deserves the right to have one. Everyone who wants to plant a tree deserves the right to plant one. Everyone who wants to eat fresh, healthy fruit from a tree deserves the right to that joy. And everyone waiting for the bus or walking down the street deserves to do so under the shade of a healthy tree.        This past year, we’ve encouraged our team to find joy in our work and lean on each other in difficult times. As I’ve shared with the Canopy team, this is emotional, and it is personal. We all have a reason for being here.  For me, the journey to this work began growing up in the University Lakes Mobile Home Park, in an unincorporated neighborhood of Miami where no one has ever taken the time to even give it a name. Much like some of the communities Canopy works in, there was constant flooding and few trees to protect us from the sun and the heat. And as I think back to my late mother, who would wait for the bus under the scorching Miami sun to take her to her job at the Varadero Supermarket, I hope I’ve made her proud in the path she inspired me to pursue. We’re committed because it’s personal. Now, we are resolved to push forward and do more. I invite you all to join us in this movement and help us write this next chapter. Together, we can create a better future for this generation and the ones to come. Together, we can ensure that everyone has the right to greener, healthier lives. In community,  JP Renaud Executive Director