Our Values
SCIENCE-LED
We lead with a scientific approach, grounded in data-driven best practices and the expertise of our trained ecologists.
COMMUNITY
We commit to a collaborative, community-focused approach, one rooted in mutual, mission-based goals. We bring people together to steward Minnesota’s land and water.
PARTNERSHIPS
We build strong, community-based partnerships, from our staff and Board of Directors to volunteer groups, donors, municipalities, vendors, schools, and the State of Minnesota. Minnesota’s land and water are shared natural systems, and we rely on the support of individuals and groups to protect them.
EDUCATION
We educate communities of all ages through a hands-on approach to create passionate, informed environmental stewards.
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
We acknowledge that historic and present-day inequities have created systemic barriers of access to natural systems and green spaces for communities of color, Indigenous peoples, and lower-income communities. We intentionally incorporate diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEI-J) goals into both our communal work and internal organizational development, utilizing our environmental justice logic model to accountably guide our work. [Link coming soon]
Get Involved
Climate change is the greatest challenge, and greatest opportunity, of this decade. It is critically important that we act now to restore, adapt, and sustainably manage healthy, resilient ecosystems throughout Minnesota that will withstand the effects of climate change. But we can’t do this work alone.
Partner with us.
Support this work.
Together, we can work to achieve Great River Greening’s vision of healthy, climate change resilient ecosystems throughout Minnesota.