We love trees. We love planting them and watching them grow. We want to give every child this joy.
Neighborhood Forest was founded in 2010 by Vikas and Priya Narula. When Vikas was a college student in the early 1990s at Maharishi International University (Fairfield, Iowa), he was introduced to a free tree project started by David Kidd of Ohio. Vikas and his college friends adopted the program and gave away tens of thousands of trees to school children across southeast Iowa.
Shortly after graduating from college, Vikas moved to Minneapolis, met Priya, and they put down roots. Years later, when their first son was entering kindergarten, they decided to rekindle Vikas’ college love of giving trees to schoolchildren and started Neighborhood Forest.
What started with 4 schools in Minneapolis has grown to over 3,500 schools, libraries, and youth groups spanning all 50 states and 7 Canadian provinces. We have also successfully conducted pilots in Mexico, Haiti, and Ghana. Our goal is to reach every child in North America and, eventually, the world.
