[ACT] ACT Brown Bag Lunch Series

[Jared Liu]

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	May 15, 2008	 	
		
  	

Session

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Second Segment

Network Exchange

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ABOUT US
  	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.	

ABOUT WEBCASTS
The 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.

NATIONAL SPONSOR



CONTRIBUTOR
	
  	

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).
* Sighting 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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REGISTER FOR THE WEBCAST:

http://actrees.org/site/stories/tree_sales_and_giveaways.php

  	
  	
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urban forestry, but with this copyright notice intact. Send a copy of  
the cited publication to:
Alliance for Community Trees • 4603 Calvert Road • College Park, MD  
20740 • info at actrees.org
Copyright (c) 2008 Alliance for Community Trees

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