$128 raised by 5 donors
General William J. Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs, established the signature landscape of Colorado Springs in 1871: its tree-lined medians on Wahsatch, Nevada, Cascade and Wood Avenues that serve as the northern gateways into our historic downtown. This arboreal landscape was in danger of vanishing when over 100 dead or declining trees had to be removed in 2016.
To help preserve General William Palmer’s vision of a Garden City, North End Woodlands, Inc.’s mission is to replant trees on the historic medians of the Old North End Neighborhood annually and to create a Sustainability Fund for their future care.
A partnership was forged in which the North End Woodlands raised money to purchase new trees, and our city staff foresters helped to install and care for them.
Hundreds of trees have since been planted on the four historic medians, including these species: American Linden, Northern Oak, Catalpa, Hackberry, Rowan Oak, White Oak, and a variety of conifers. We have partially restored the tree canopy on the medians, thanks to donations of money and labor from individuals, youth organizations, businesses, hospitals, and churches. We have also received munificent grants from philanthropic organizations.
However, the necessary replanting needs have not been fully met. Your donation will help guarantee that we can continue to plant trees.
The Nancy Brooks Ekberg Sustainability Fund (managed by the Pikes Peak Community Foundation) has also been established with the goal of raising $250,000; the interest accrued will provide for the purchase, planting and maintenance of our city’s median trees for the generations to come. To date, a total of $71,000 has been raised toward this goal. Your donation helps ensure that our median trees are cared for in perpetuity.
To honor the trees that sheltered Colorado Springs for more than 100 years, to dream generously for generations 100 years from now, and to preserve General William Palmer’s vision of a Garden City, North End Woodlands, Inc.’s mission is to replant trees on the historic medians of the Old North End Neighborhood annually and to create a Sustainability Fund for their future care.
- Total Amount Fundraised $197K
- Trees Planted 275
- Raised for the Nancy Brooks Ekberg Sustainability Fund $71K
- Received in grant awards $102K
2024 - NEW, Inc. continues to raise money to reforest our neighborhood’s tree canopy and to fully vest the Nancy Brooks Ekberg Sustainability Fund. In partnership with the city foresters, 20 more trees are planted on April 9th.
2023 - We planted hundreds of trees in the Old North End Neighborhood since 2017, and gifted a grove of conifers to the Bonny Neighborhood
2022 - We created the Nancy Brooks Ekberg Sustainability Fund at the Pikes Peak Community Foundation with a goal of raising $250,000 to care for ONEN’s median trees in perpetuity
2022 - We advocate for more funding for the City Forestry Division’s budget, spoke at City Council budget hearings, and were successful in convincing the City to increase Forestry’s budget
2021 - We became a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
2019 - We received the Award for Civic Rehabilitation of a Historic Landscape (in partnership with the C.S. Forestry Division) from the Historic Preservation Alliance of Colorado Springs
2019 - We received the Columbine Award for Innovation from Colorado Parks and Recreation
2018 - Colorado Spring’s City Council proclaimed May 18 as North End Woodlands Project Day
2017 - We completed our first planting of 27 trees on Arbor Day
2017 - We formed a public/private partnership with City Forestry and a Memorandum of Understanding formalized our commitments to the restoration of the tree canopy
2017 - We hired a landscape architect, Brett Jackson, to choose diverse, drought- resistant, cold-hardy tree species and plan their placement on the medians
2016 - Old North End neighbors established North End Woodlands to respond to the cutting down of over one hundred sickly, century-old trees on our four historic medians
Organization name
North End Woodlands, Inc.
other names
Urban Woodlands of Colorado Springs, Inc.
2016
Tax id (EIN)
87-2504818
Category
Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Environment, Public & Societal Benefit
Organization Size
Small Organization
Address
2316 N WAHSATCH BOX 347Colorado Springs, CO, US