Partner with Southside ReLeaf
At Southside ReLeaf, we believe lasting environmental change happens through collaboration. We work alongside residents, organizations, businesses, and institutions to create greener neighborhoods, improve public health, and advance environmental justice across Southside Richmond.
Partnering with Southside ReLeaf is an investment in community resilience, environmental equity, and sustainable urban futures. Our work remains firmly rooted in the community — and with your partnership, we can grow stronger, healthier, and more impactful.
Together, we can create vibrant public spaces that serve all community members today and for generations to come.
How We Make an Impact, Together
Community Partnerships
We collaborate with civic associations, schools, local businesses, and residents to bring neighborhood priorities to life. Community partners help lead projects like workdays, cleanups, small-scale tree plantings, and community garden builds, and often support outreach through fundraisers or tabling. These partnerships keep our work grounded in local relationships and community-driven solutions.
Corporate Partnerships
Corporate partners help expand our impact across Southside Richmond by investing in climate action and community health. Businesses may support our work through grants, sponsorships, volunteer service days, workplace giving, in-kind donations, or employee engagement initiatives. We prioritize partnerships rooted in shared values, long-term commitment, and meaningful community benefit.
Program Partnerships
We partner with nonprofits, academic institutions, and public agencies to advance larger initiatives that strengthen environmental equity. These collaborations may include co-designing programs, building coalitions, conducting research, supporting community science, or creating internship and workforce development opportunities that help grow the next generation of environmental leaders.
Our Guiding Principles for Partnership
Southside ReLeaf strives to improve the community as a whole, ensuring that our work benefits all residents. We are guided by shared values cultivated within our organization, prioritizing equity, respect, accessibility, and justice in every project and partnership we undertake. Contact us to discuss a partnership.
As an environmental justice organization, Southside ReLeaf prioritizes partnerships that advance:
Social justice
Community wealth
Neighborhood resilience
Equitable access to green space
Trust is one of our most valuable assets. We carefully evaluate all partnerships to ensure alignment with our mission and values.
We may decline partnerships with organizations whose activities:
Compromise the integrity of our work
Contribute directly to environmental harm or pollution
Undermine community interests
Focus primarily on greenwashing or short-term public image
We welcome opportunities to work with organizations and businesses of all sizes that are committed to equity, accountability, and long-term change.