Empower.
Collaborate.
Restore.
Our mission is to preserve and enrich.
Founded in 2022, Nurture Natives is a youth-led nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering youth through environmental initiatives that promote native biodiversity. Our programs, spanning the East Coast, educate thousands of young people on biodiversity, native species, and pollination. We host giveaways across Maryland and surrounding states, distributing free native seedlings, saplings, and shrubs. In collaboration with the University of Maryland Extension, our team published Nurture Natives: A Guide to Invasive Species and their Native Look-Alikes. Hundreds of Nurture Natives Guides are being distributed to nurseries across seven East Coast states. We are passionate about advocating for mental health and empowering youth, instilling in them the belief that they have an inimitable value and impact on their environment. Our programs inspire young people to connect with their environment, understand the species they share it with, and become environmental stewards. As Nurture Natives grows, our resolve remains resolute: to inspire, educate, and advocate for a future in which our youth and environment thrive.
