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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
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| ABOUT WEBCASTS |
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Brown Bag Lunch Series is a monthly
webcast held at the lunch hour. The goal is to create informal
trainings for local urban and community forestry
organizations.
The trainings leverage local successes by amplifying to a larger
audience the model organizations' methods, materials, and
approaches.
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Tree Sales and Giveaways
May
15, 2008
1:00-
2:00pm EST
Tree giveaways and sales are a great way to
engage a broad segment of the community including individual residents,
neighborhood organizations, affordable housing agencies, schools, and
civic groups. They're also a profitable way to raise funds for efforts
to work with these same constituencies. Partnership opportunities don't
stop there, though. Businesses can be a distribution point, university
agricultural programs can partner as holding stations, volunteers can
run the event, and elected leaders may want to link-up on canopy cover
goals.
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SESSION TOPICS
Brown Bag attendees will learn:
* How to start a similar program and
what partnerships are key.
* Stocking a variety theme (ex. drought-tolerant shade trees).
* Siting and landscape inspections.
* Municipal requirements such as spacing and planting locations.
* Cost and coverage.
* Financial sustainability.
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TREE SALE AS A FUNDRAISER
Greg
Levine, Program Director, Trees Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
This October, Trees Atlanta will host their 9th
Annual Tree Sale. The event, which raises $12,000- 25,000 annually to
benefit NeighborWoods projects in Atlanta, offers more
than a thousand plants with 200 species of trees, shrubs, and
tree-friendly vines for purchase. On the day of the sale,
Trees Atlanta incorporates volunteers in the roles of cashier, tree
expert, shopping assistant, information table, pickup areas, hold
areas, tree reorganizing, and traffic.
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TREE GIVEAWAY WITH MUNICIPALITY
Patrick Hayes, Executive
Director, The Park People (Denver, CO)
Denver Digs Trees provides low-cost and free
(for low-income residents) trees for planting along the streets of the
city and county of Denver. The program has added more than 28,000
public trees to Denver since 1989. In 2007, the project planted and
cared for 2,500 trees. They offer bareroot and balled-and-burlap
varieties of about twenty species for pickup at one of six parks or
nurseries.
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NEIGHBORWOODS NETWORK EXCHANGE
Extended Learning- On the Ground at Trees Atlanta
There is so much more that can be learned in a week than in an hour,
and on the ground as opposed to on a webcast. So here is your chance!
Trees Atlanta has offered to host up to five ACT members to their
organization for a week. Details will be available at the webcast, and
only webcast participants are eligible to apply.
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