OUR IMPACT

$197K

Total
Amount
Fundraised

~275

Trees
Planted

$71K 

Raised for the
Nancy Brooks Ekberg 
Sustainability Fund

$102K

Received in
grant awards

2024 

2023

2022

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2021

2019

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2018

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2016

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.

We planted hundreds of trees in the Old North End Neighborhood since 2017, and gifted a grove of conifers to the Bonny Neighborhood

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

We spoke at City Council budget hearings to advocate for more funding for the City Forestry Division’s budget and were successful in convincing the City to increase Forestry’s budget

We became a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization

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

We received the Columbine Award for Innovation from Colorado Parks and Recreation

Colorado Spring’s City Council proclaimed May 18 as North End Woodlands Project Day

We completed our first planting of 27 trees on Arbor Day

We formed a public/private partnership with City Forestry and a Memorandum of Understanding formalized our commitments to the restoration of the tree canopy

We hired a landscape architect, Brett Jackson, to choose diverse, drought- resistant, cold-hardy tree species and plan their placement on the medians

ONEN neighbors established North End Woodlands to respond to the cutting down of one hundred sickly, century-old trees on our four historic medians