Campaigns
Priority Campaigns
Support Climate Resilience Funding
The City’s Neighborhood Climate Resilience Funding directly supports frontline communities, green workforce development, energy efficiency, urban tree canopy efforts, and so much more. As environmental nonprofits face federal attacks and lose substantial funding, any cuts to the NCRF grant program put community projects at risk of not being funded.
Choose Clean Water Coalition
Southside ReLeaf is one of over 300 organizations that comprise the Choose Clean Water Coalition. Recently, the coalition sent letters to Senator Mark Warner and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin in support of policies that will protect clean water in Virginia and support continued restoration of the Chesapeake Bay. The letter to Administrator Zeldin urges the EPA to stop the weakening of water protections in the Chesapeake Bay. The letter to Senator Warner urges a reversal of proposed closures of key Department of the Interior offices that threaten to disrupt water quality monitoring.
Previous Campaigns
The Fight to Save Hickory Hill
In October 2021, Southside ReLeaf along with partner organizations led a planting of 100 trees at Hickory Hill Community Center, a historically significant community center and local park in a predominantly Black and Latino neighborhood. Just a year later, the city of Richmond proposed to pave over two acres of green space at the community center to build a burn tower for a fire training facility—bringing fires, smoke and more concrete to a renewed community park in a formerly redlined neighborhood. By summer 2023, the city reversed its decision to pave over the park thanks to activism and advocacy by neighbors and community groups.