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KIB Ambassadors

What a Good Neighbor Looks Like in Indianapolis

Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: May 16, 2026
Categories: Adopt-A-Block, AES Indiana Project Greenspace, Busy Roads and Waterways, Clean Neighborhoods, Community Forestry, Custom Day of Service, Engaged Citizens, Great Indy Cleanup, Habitat Restoration, KIB Ambassadors, News & Features, Plogging, Tree Tenders, Trees and Native Habitats, Urban Naturalists, Volunteers, Youth Tree Team

The world can really feel heavy sometimes. The headlines, the noise, the feeling that things are getting harder to fix. We feel it too. But there’s another story running underneath all of that, and it’s been quietly unfolding in Indianapolis neighborhoods every weekend for 50 years. People planting trees they may never sit under. Neighbors […]

A Saturday of Cleanup, Tree Planting, and Restoration in Brookside Park

Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: March 30, 2026
Categories: Busy Roads and Waterways, Clean Neighborhoods, Community Forestry, Engaged Citizens, Great Indy Cleanup, Habitat Restoration, KIB Ambassadors, News & Features, Tree Tenders, Trees and Native Habitats

Brookside Park is one of those places that tells an incredible story about our city. It shows what a neighborhood values. It reflects how people gather, how they move through shared space, and whether a public place feels cared for. And on a recent Saturday morning, it showed something else: what it looks like when […]

GreenKeepers and Friends: Celebrating a Year of Impact

Posted by: Katie Waters
Posted: December 16, 2025
Categories: Adopt-A-Block, Engaged Citizens, KIB Ambassadors, Tree Tenders, Uncategorized, Volunteers

The GreenKeepers and Friends End of Year Celebration was a joyful and meaningful way to close out 2025. With a cozy hot chocolate bar and a competitive round of KIB Jeopardy, we gathered to celebrate the incredible work of our GreenKeepers, Adopt-A-Block Captains, Ambassadors, and Tree Tenders, the specialized volunteers who make our mission possible. […]

Volunteer Spotlight: Maithilee Das Lappin

Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: January 21, 2025
Categories: Adopt-A-Block, Clean Neighborhoods, Engaged Citizens, KIB Ambassadors, Tree Tenders, Volunteers

This month, we are thrilled to shine a light on an exceptional volunteer, KIB Board Member, Adopt-A-Block Captain, Tree Tender, and Ambassador, Maithilee Das Lappin. Maithilee has been a driving force in the KIB community since she moved to Indianapolis after graduating from Purdue in 2015. Always eager to make a difference, she quickly became […]

Celebrating a year of impact

Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: December 27, 2023
Categories: Adopt-A-Block, Clean Neighborhoods, Engaged Citizens, Great Indy Cleanup, KIB Ambassadors, Trees and Native Habitats, Uncategorized, Urban Naturalists, Volunteers

We’ve been making our city cleaner, greener, and friendlier since 1976. With the support of our volunteers, advocates and partners, we continue to accomplish extraordinary things together. This year was no exception! Just like ecosystems in nature, communities that are connected and support one another become stronger and more resilient. None of our work would […]