Our Partners
Meet our Executive Oversight Team!
USDA Forest Service
The US Forest Service’s mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the Nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations. As the lead federal agency for the LA Urban Center, the US Forest Service’s role is to provide technical and financial assistance, research, and targeted outreach to increase community awareness on the importance of natural resource management in sustaining healthy and viable cities.
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City Plants
City Plants is a non-profit in partnership with the City of LA and the Department of Water and Power that envisions an LA where people in every neighborhood have equal access to trees and their benefits: clean air, energy efficiency, better health, cooling shade, and a friendlier, more vibrant neighborhood. To this end, City Plants provides free trees to LA residents, plants street trees in the City of LA, and educates and trains community members in maintaining and caring for their canopy. Overall, the program plants and distributes approximately 15,000 trees each year.
CAL FIRE
The mission of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s Urban Forestry Program is to lead the effort to advance the development of sustainable urban and community forests in California. Regional Urban Foresters provide expert urban forestry support to communities, non-profit groups and other municipal governments to create and maintain sustainable urban forests.
Los Angeles County Chief Sustainability Office
Guided by the OurCounty Sustainability Plan, the Chief Sustainability Office leads cross-departmental efforts to achieve a sustainable LA County that advances economic opportunity and climate resilience. It provides policy support and guidance to the Board of Supervisors, County departments, and regional partners to ensure a sustainable future for all County residents.
Dudek
Dudek is a 100% employee-owned environmental, planning, and engineering firm headquartered in Encinitas, California. Our 800+ multidisciplinary employees are planners, scientists, and engineers who help clients plan, design, and build projects that improve communities’ built and natural infrastructure. We offer clients more than 50 environmental, planning, and engineering services to support your goals and facilitate project success.
Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente exists to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente is recognized as one of America’s leading health care providers and nonprofit health plans. We currently serve members in 8 states and the District of Columbia.
Los Angeles City Planning
Los Angeles City Planning reviews project applications, processing entitlements, and approvals to ensure that future decisions about development are aligned with the City’s land use policies and proposed land use regulations. City Planning is also responsible for administering the Zoning Code, promoting urban design principles, and managing the City’s historic resources. From overseeing the long-range planning efforts to managing the environmental review of projects, City Planning’s work has a lasting impact on Los Angeles.
Nature for All
Nature for All works to build a base of support for ensuring that everyone in the Los Angeles area—no matter where they live—has access to the wide range of benefits that nature can provide. Nature For All advocates for policies and programs that will protect the mountains and rivers in our area, to conserve resources and be more climate-resilient, create more natural spaces such as parks and bike paths in our historically underserved neighborhoods, and connect people and public lands through more trails and other outdoor recreational opportunities, to improve public health.
North East Trees
North East Trees is a community-based, non-profit organization that helps heal environmental injustice through urban forestry, nature-based design-build, habitat restoration, and workforce development. We work in underinvested communities in Los Angeles County – particularly in Northeast, East and South Los Angeles – to build climate resiliency through stewardship, planting, design, and community engagement.
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources operates a statewide network of researchers and educators dedicated to the development and application of knowledge to address local agricultural, environmental and health issues. The network of local Cooperative Extension sites and research and extension centers is often the face of the university to residents who may never set foot on a UC campus. By working and living in communities across the state, UC ANR expands UC’s reach to ensure equal access to the UC system.
University of California, Davis
University of California, Davis was founded in 1908 to serve the state of California. We do and we always will. And today, the seed that was planted those years ago has grown into one of the world’s top universities. Our talented students are more likely to collaborate than compete. This friendly approach has led to an incredibly rich campus community that turns big ideas into real solutions.
University of California, Los Angeles’ Luskin Center for Innovation
University of California, Los Angeles’ Luskin Center for Innovation’s mission is to advance effective solutions to pressing environmental challenges through actionable research that engages UCLA scholars, policymakers, and communities. Our impact is intrinsically tied to our collaborations. By uniting UCLA scholars with civic partners, together we advance effective solutions to pressing environmental challenges.