The Nashville Tree Foundation

Founded in 1986, Nashville Tree foundation is Nashville's oldest nonprofit dedicated to planting and preserving Nashville's urban canopy. NTF plants trees on both public and private land, prioritizing areas where low tree canopy and low income intersect. All trees planted by NTF count towards the city's goal of planting 500,000 trees by the year 2050 (known as the root Nashville campaign). Following the devastating tornados in 1998 and 2020, NTF led efforts to restore the tree canopy in tornado-impacted communities through plantings and free tree distribution campaigns.