what we do
This Garden Was a Parking Lot
Check out the latest video about Depave’s work highlighting recent projects and meaningful community partners involved. Created by Alex McCutcheon.
Since 2008, Depave has worked intentionally with communities to remove underutilized pavement, replacing it with living, permeable design.
Our Mission
Depave empowers disenfranchised communities to overcome social and environmental injustices and adapt to climate change through urban re-greening. Depave transforms over-paved places, creates resilient community greenspaces, promotes workforce development and education, and advocates for policy change to undo manifestations of systemic racism.
Our Vision
Depave envisions an empowered society living within sustainable cities, built on a foundation of justice, equity, diversity, practicing inclusion and actively undoing systemic discrimination, social and environmental injustice of every kind. Depave imagines a sustainable city as a place where people and wildlife coexist and prosper amidst clean air, clean water, robust urban forests, thriving local agriculture, and healthy communities.
Our Strategic Plan
Our current Strategic Plan, adopted June 2023, represents many hours of work put in from our Board and staff, grounded with input from our community partners. With support from Meyer Memorial Trust, Depave worked with Capacity Building Partnerships, LLC, who facilitated a community survey, Board-staff retreat, and bi-weekly meetings of a Strategic Planning Committee. This resulted in clearly articulated values and goals that guide our current work and reflect who we are and where we’re going as an organization.
