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Alliance for Community
Trees is dedicated to improving the environment where 80% of Americans
live: our cities, towns, and villages. Together, ACT's national network
of members have planted and cared for 7.8 million trees with help from
450,000 volunteers. |
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year, ACT is on the organizing committee of a national, bipartisan
campaign to greatly
expand service opportunities for Americans, elevate service as a
core element of citizenship, and create targeted service corps to
address our nation's most
important challenges. The campaign is called ServiceNation. |
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IN THE NEWS
ACT Webcast Recording Available- Technology in
the Urban Forest
If you missed
ACT's recent webcast on Technology in the Urban Forest, you can view
and listen to the presentation online. The session is one hour and
available for free. Casey Trees and Davey Tree talk about available
software and technology, as well as educational applications being used
to set and achieve ambitious goals and extrapolate data into
bottom line dollars and cents that can be a powerful tool for gaining
the attention of public officials.
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SUCCESS STORY
Dealing with Drought and Water Restrictions
Ensuring
that trees receive adequate water is labor intensive and complicated by
water shortages and drought conditions in many areas throughout the
country. Trees Atlanta, in partnership with the city's
Department of Watershed Management, recycles the water flushed daily
from fire hydrants to soak 3,000 downtown trees and hundreds in
surrounding neighborhoods.
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RESEARCH
New Research Linking Invasive Species and
Climate Change
Washington, DC
(July 1, 2008)- Interactions between climate and biological invasions
were the theme of a special section in the June 2008 issue of
Conservation Biology. The Environmental Law Institute's Invasive
Species Program and the U.S. EPA's Global Change Research Program
brought together leading experts to assess links
between invasive species and the climate.
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PUBLIC POLICY
Support the GIVE Act
Washington, DC
(August 6, 2008)- America's volunteers play a vital role in delivering
services to communities through nonprofits. But a quirk in federal tax
law has created a barrier that is preventing many volunteers from
helping underserved communities. As a result, nonprofits have been
losing volunteers because of high gas prices and unfair tax
statutes. Fortunately, a bill was recently introduced to fix this
problem: the Giving Incentives to Volunteers Everywhere Act of 2008
(GIVE Act, S.3429).
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EVENTS
Marketing & Communications- Part I:
Marketing 101
National Webcast: October October 16, 2008
This session kicks
off a four part series on Marketing and Communications anchored by
TreePeople's Director of Communications, Laurie Kaufman. This first
session is on Marketing 101. Translating the commercial world of product, price,
and distribution into the tree world requires marketing...
otherwise known as a series of strategic activities or decisions to
create value in the mind of a specific customer. For most tree groups
the focus is social marketing- influencing perceptions and awareness of
specific audiences.
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FUNDING
NASA Climate Change Education Grants 2008
The National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Office of Education
announced it is accepting proposals for its Global Climate Change
Education project. The program is designed to improve global climate
change and Earth system science education at the elementary, secondary,
and undergraduate levels.
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