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With generous support from The Home Depot Foundation, Alliance for Community Trees launched its National NeighborWoods Program - dedicated to helping communities restore tree canopy.

Many cities have lost more than a third of their forest canopy in recent decades. NeighborWoods inspires citizens to take action to plant and care for trees to improve their communities.

NeighborWoods programs improve both the environment and the social fabric of neighborhoods, spurring community development and supporting healthier, livable communities.

The National NeighborWoods Program supports local partners with training, technical assistance, marketing tools, and project grants to encourage the involvement of volunteers in the hands-on restoration of urban forests.

So far, the National NeighborWoods Program has:

• Awarded over $600,000 in NeighborWoods Grants to nonprofit organizations to organize volunteers to replant entire communities with trees. Grants help communities that need financial assistance the most. Projects are delivered through diverse community partnerships that include conservation groups, affordable housing organizations, community development partners and others.


• Trained 200 community organizers at ACT’s National NeighborWoods Academy about successful program models, best practices for nonprofit management, and how to organize volunteers for tree planting and environmental stewardship.


• Brought attention to the health and economic benefits that trees provide to people through National NeighborWoods Month, an October awareness campaign that sparked 150 tree planting and educational events in 50 cities in 2006.


• Published a NeighborWoods Organizer’s Guidebook and NeighborWoods Month Partner Kit to make NeighborWoods easy to deliver in any community.


• Created the National NeighborWoods Network, an electronic community for local organizers to collaborate and share success strategies.

To read about The Home Depot Foundation’s commitment to urban and community forestry, click here.

NeighborWoods is made possible by a generous contribution from The Home Depot Foundation. The Home Depot Foundation invests in nonprofit organizations that are in the business of building strong, healthy communities. See www.homedepotfoundation.org for more information.