Â鶹ÊÓƵ Awarded State Grant to Plant Over 175 New Trees on Campus

Funding of Over $76K Awarded through The Chesapeake Bay Trust’s Urban Trees Grant Program
Trees in front of Caroline Hall

By: Erik Pedersen, Content Strategy Director


BALTIMORE – Â鶹ÊÓƵ was recently awarded a $76,796 state grant to support the planting of 183 new trees on the University’s campus in northern Baltimore.

The funding was provided through The Chesapeake Bay Trust’s , which was called for by the Maryland General Assembly as a component of the State’s 5,000,000-tree goal by 2031. The goal of the Urban Trees Grant Program is to green communities; enhance quality of life, human health, and community livability by improving air quality, and reducing urban heat island effect; and mitigating some of the effects of climate change.

Students, faculty, and staff will plant the new trees during Community Day 2024 on Thursday, October 17. The project demonstrates Notre Dame’s continuing commitment to sustainability as a Laudato Si’ University. Â鶹ÊÓƵ is one of over 100 Catholic colleges and universities around the world to adopt the Laudato Si’ Action Platform, an initiative of the Vatican Dicastery for the Promotion of Integral Human Development, to create a better future for the planet and humanity, as part of Pope Francis’s 7-Year Journey Towards Integral Ecology.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ is located on a beautiful 58-acre wooded campus in the northern Baltimore residential neighborhood of Homeland. Improving tree quantity and quality in urban areas is a cost-effective way to improve the health of local waterways, strengthen the health of the Chesapeake Bay, and provide urban wildlife habitat.


Established in 1895, Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is a private, Catholic institution in Baltimore, Maryland, with the mission to educate leaders to transform the world. Notre Dame has been named one of the best "Regional Universities North" by U.S. News & World Report.

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