For the fourth year, the Trust for Public Land ranked DC highest on its ParkScore Index, and this matters because spending time in nature improves our physical and mental health. Where it's hiking park trails or biking along the riverfront, exploring the outdoors is good for body and soul. Unfortunately, access to green space is not always equitable. So local nonprofits, like those featured in this catalog, create opportunities for people to be outside – for our region's youngest and oldest residents, neighbors of color, people with disabilities, and households with lower incomes. After experiencing our second-warmest year on record, which hit hardest in Wards 5, 7, and 8 where sidewalks have less shade, preserving and expanding natural land remains one of the best antidotes to the climate crisis. Local nonprofits are at the forefront here, advocating for and implementing sustainable policies, inviting residents outside to paddle, play, and garden, creating green jobs, and fostering a sense of collective environmental responsibility.