Come grow with ACT! Join our vital coalition of organizations dedicated to the same cause - restoring community forests for the benefit of all people. ACT is the only national organization solely focused on the needs of nonprofit and community organizations engaged in urban forest protection. Our work is improving the environment where 86% 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.
Membership Benefits
ACT is a membership association. Our independent, community-based members are planting, preserving, and maintaining the tree canopies of all major metro markets and many towns in between.
Influence: ACT serves as a collective voice in urban forestry.
Education: ACT provides formal training seminars and workshops.
Networking: ACT is the perfect venue for giving advice, making new contacts, and sharing ideas.
Fifth Annual October Event Sponsored by The Home Depot Foundation
College Park, MD (November 9, 2009)- In 231 cities around the country, local nonprofit organizations and their partners participated in this year's National NeighborWoods Month, organized by the Alliance for Community Trees and sponsored by The Home Depot(r) Foundation, USDA Forest Service, and Wallace Genetic Foundation. Throughout October, participating organizations planted an estimated 36,000 trees with help from 24,000 volunteers to improve urban communities.
Washington, DC (November 5, 2009)- Three years of research and work culminates as the Sustainable Sites Initiative releases the first full national rating system for sustainable landscapes as part of the Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks 2009 report. This latest report takes into account feedback from hundreds of individuals and organizations across the country and around the world. In addition, the report includes a supplemental educational report, titled Making the Case for Sustainable Landscapes, that provides scientific and economic arguments underlying the guidelines, and highlights several case studies for sustainable practices.
December 17, 2009
1:00-2:00pm EST
National Webcast
Many cities and counties around the country are taking up the banner of a tree campaign or public canopy initiative. A central challenge to such programs is how to balance the public relations goals of the campaigns with implementing a visionary yet achievable initiative.
