From jared at actrees.org Thu Oct 1 17:26:52 2009 From: jared at actrees.org (Jared Liu) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:26:52 -0400 Subject: [ACT] Sen. Grassley To Help Kick off NeighborWoods Month Message-ID: <0301B69A-3C9D-4451-A619-4BAABF66F212@actrees.org> Trouble viewing this? Go to: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/nwm_09oct1.html October 1, 2009 Week 1 Photo Contest Volunteer Award Planning Kit Promotional Gear Register 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 14.9 million trees with help from 4.3 million volunteers. QUICK LINKS Join ACT Resources Newsroom NATIONAL SPONSOR CONTRIBUTORS WEEK 1 Sen. Grassley To Help Kick off NeighborWoods Month It?s NeighborWoods Month! The national campaign officially swung into service today, but the first focus events will be on 10/3 in Cedar Rapids and 10/5 in Des Moines. Joining Trees Forever, Habitat for Humanity, and The Home Depot to launch nationwide efforts will be U.S. Senator Charles Grassley, Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie, Cedar Rapids Mayor Kay Halloran, and Alliant Energy, among many partners. These events are some of 653 green service events in 45 states (plus DC and Canada) happening this month! Join the campaign! SEND US YOUR SNAPS Win $500 This year, we're looking for great action shots that celebrate a spirit of volunteerism and stewardship for trees. Send us your inspiring, surprising, or amusing photos and we'll feature your images at the ACT Annual Meeting and Member Rally on Nov. 17 in Atlanta. The winning photograph will receive a $500 Home Depot gift card. Submit your photos VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR Win a trip to Washington, DC for one of your volunteers! ACT is pleased to announce it is accepting nominations for Volunteer of the Year. This is an opportunity for ACT members to share inspirational accounts of volunteers in action and have them gain national recognition for their local contributions! Nominate a volunteer PLANNING & PROMOTION KIT Promote local efforts- Link to the national campaign The NeighborWoods Month Planning and Promotion Kit provides everything you need to promote your NeighborWoods Month event, including tools to attract new partners, ideas, helpful hints, and sample documents and forms. The kit will help you think through your NeighborWoods Month events. From tips on how to get started to post-event evaluations, the carefully designed tools and information provided in this kit support your ongoing efforts to present a consistent and compelling image of your organization?s value to your stakeholders. Download the Planning Kit FREE GEAR AND MATERIALS Order NeighborWoods Promotional Gear By registering your October event with ACT, you will receive free professionally designed marketing materials including T-shirts, posters, banners, door hangers, toolbelts, and kids' activity cards. See samples and order additional quantities! Order Free Gear REGISTER YOUR EVENT Join the Campaign! How can NeighborWoods benefit you? * Builds partnerships and recognition * Improves quality of life * Educates people about trees Help us promote your work. Register your event today. Register your event Please use and share ACT's materials freely with anyone interested in urban forestry, but with this copyright notice intact. Send a copy of the cited publication to: Alliance for Community Trees ? 4603 Calvert Road ? 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Click here to view the email online: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/annualmtg_09oct2.html October 2, 2009 Pre-Conference SIGNATURE SPONSOR PRE-CONFERENCE UPDATE November 8-11, 2009 Portland, OR ACT's Annual Meeting & NeighborWoods Academy will be held November 8-11 in conjunction with the Partners in Community Forestry conference, sponsored by The Home Depot Foundation and organized by Arbor Day Foundation, Alliance for Community Trees, and many other partners. Event Schedule: Nov 8 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Marketing Seminar Nov 8 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Service Event Nov 8 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Board of Directors Meeting Nov 8 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Membership Business Meeting Nov 8 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. ACT Members Reception Nov 9 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ACT Rally & Partners Conf. Nov 9 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Partners Conf. Reception Nov 10 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. ACT Rally & Partners Conf. Nov 11 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Field Tours of Portland Scholarships Deadline: October 16, 2009 There is still time to apply for one of the limited number of travel scholarships available. Eligibility is contingent upon attending the entire conference, including either the marketing seminar or service event on Sunday, November 8. This scholarship is available through generous support from The Home Depot Foundation, National Tree Trust, and USDA Forest Service. Service Event Come learn about Friends of Trees' Greenspace Initiative (GSI) and plant trees along the I-205 bike path. This service event is more than a way to catch-up with friends... it is an opportunity to learn from a national leader in urban forestry. We invite you to start off your conference experience by seeing first-hand how they do things in Portland! Vans depart from the hotel. Marketing Seminar The "Leveraging a Positive Perception in a Competitive Marketplace" training will provide opportunities for interaction, exercises, and discussion. The program content is designed to focus on the fundamentals of good marketing with community trees as the product. The session is included with registration, so plan your travel accordingly. See you in Portland! Apply for a Scholarship Please use and share ACT's materials freely with anyone interested in 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 To Subscribe: friends at actrees.org an announce-only list for ACT's NeighborWoods Network http://actrees.org/site/lists/friends To Unsubscribe: Reply to this email with the subject "remove please" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The proposal, which several experts called the nation's most ambitious, reimagines the city as an oasis of rain gardens, green roofs, thousands of additional trees, porous pavement, and more. Read the full story LOCAL STORY No More "Charlie Brown" Trees! (Wilmington, DE)- Help the Delaware Center for Horticulture win a grant from Tom of Maine by voting for their project. It's very simple. There is no need to register with Tom's of Maine or to provide your email address. And you can vote once/day every day this month. Read the full story Please use and share ACT's materials freely with anyone interested in 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) 2009 Alliance for Community Trees To Subscribe: friends at actrees.org an announce-only list for ACT's NeighborWoods Network http://actrees.org/site/lists/friends To Unsubscribe: Reply to this email with the subject "remove please" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jared at actrees.org Thu Oct 8 05:07:30 2009 From: jared at actrees.org (Jared Liu) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 05:07:30 -0400 Subject: [ACT] Celebrate NeighborWoods Month 2009 Message-ID: Seeing only text and no pictures? Read the newsletter here: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/nwm_09oct8.html October 8, 2009 Week 2 Photo Contest Volunteer Award Planning Kit Promotional Gear Register 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 14.9 million trees with help from 4.3 million volunteers. QUICK LINKS Join ACT Resources Newsroom NATIONAL SPONSOR CONTRIBUTORS WEEK 2 Area Home Depot Stores Gather for First of Three Greenville NeighborWoods Month Events In partnership with the Greenville County Redevelopment Authority, Trees Greenville is planting trees in two affordalbe housing communities where tree canopy cover is low. The new trees will increase residents' property values, energy effieicney, and quality of life. All in all, they'll plant 175 trees with help from as many volunteers. This event is just one of more than 600 events this month. Register your event today or volunteer with one near you... there are events every day! Join the campaign! SEND US YOUR SNAPS Win $500 This year, we're looking for great action shots that celebrate a spirit of volunteerism and stewardship for trees. Send us your inspiring, surprising, or amusing photos and we'll feature your images at the ACT Annual Meeting and Member Rally. The winning photograph will receive a $500 Home Depot gift card. Submit your photos VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR Win a trip to Washington, DC for one of your volunteers! ACT is pleased to announce it is accepting nominations for Volunteer of the Year. This is an opportunity for ACT members to share inspirational accounts of volunteers in action and have them gain national recognition for their local contributions! Nominate a volunteer PLANNING & PROMOTION KIT Promote local efforts- Link to the national campaign The NeighborWoods Month Planning and Promotion Kit provides everything you need to promote your NeighborWoods Month event, including tools to attract new partners, ideas, helpful hints, and sample documents and forms. The kit will help you think through your NeighborWoods Month events. From tips on how to get started to post-event evaluations, the carefully designed tools and information provided in this kit support your ongoing efforts to present a consistent and compelling image of your organization?s value to your stakeholders. Download the Planning Kit FREE GEAR AND MATERIALS Order NeighborWoods Promotional Gear By registering your October event with ACT, you will receive free professionally designed marketing materials including T-shirts, posters, banners, door hangers, toolbelts, and kids' activity cards. See samples and order additional quantities! Order Free Gear REGISTER YOUR EVENT Join the Campaign! How can NeighborWoods benefit you? * Builds partnerships and recognition * Improves quality of life * Educates people about trees Help us promote your work. Register your event today. Register your event Please use and share ACT's materials freely with anyone interested in 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) 2009 Alliance for Community Trees To Subscribe/Unsubscribe: friends at actrees.org an announce-only list for ACT's NeighborWoods Network http://actrees.org/site/lists/friends -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jared at actrees.org Mon Oct 12 12:34:39 2009 From: jared at actrees.org (Jared Liu) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:34:39 -0400 Subject: [ACT] Treebune News- NWoods Month Chicago and FedEx in Canada Message-ID: <10F7EBF9-6A91-4F84-917B-80C63B3D470B@actrees.org> Seeing only text and no pictures? Click here to view the newsletter: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/treebune_09oct12.html October 12, 2009 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 14.9 million trees with help from 4.3 million volunteers. NATIONAL SPONSOR SUPPORT ACT NATIONAL NEWS Volunteers helping to Re-green Lake Co. preserves (Chicago, IL)- On many weekends over the past 25 years, Tom Smith has led volunteers in never ending efforts to improve the forest preserves in Lake County. In one sense, October is no different, with a series of workdays scheduled in various locations. But in the bigger picture, Lake County's efforts are among hundreds of "re-greening" activities throughout the U.S. in October as part of National NeighborWoods Month, promoted by the nonprofit Alliance for Community Trees. Read the full story LOCAL STORY FedEx Joins Tree Canada to Promote Environmental Sustainability (Lumsden, Saskatchewan)- On September 26, Federal Express Canada in support of Tree Canada and with the help of FedEx volunteers and students and staff at Lumsden Elementary School rejuvenated the school's grounds by adding a variety of trees and shrubs. This greening project is one of 15 that FedEx is supporting in communities across the country in 2009. Read the full story Please use and share ACT's materials freely with anyone interested in urban forestry, but with this copyright notice intact. Send a copy of the cited publication to: Alliance for Community Trees ? 4603 Calvert Road ? 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Together, ACT's national network of members have planted and cared for 14.9 million trees with help from 4.3 million volunteers. QUICK LINKS Join ACT Resources Newsroom SUPPORT ACT SPOTLIGHT ISSUE Civic Engagement- God, Friends, and Facebook are Important Factors As economic distress continues through the summer and into the fall, Americans are suffering from a "civic foreclosure" that is limiting the range and depth of their civic engagement, according to a new study by National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC). The annual America's Civic Health Index, based on survey data collected in May 2009, is a look at the state of civic engagement in America that reflects the impact of the economic crisis. Read more FEATURED AUDIENCE Nonprofit Directors How do you determine competitive nonprofit salaries for recruiting new employees and retaining prized talent? How does your organization's benefits compare to nonprofits of similar size and location? The Opportunity Knocks 2008/2009 National Nonprofit Wage and Benefit Report can help. Read more Please use and share ACT's materials freely with anyone interested in 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) 2009 Alliance for Community Trees To Subscribe: friends at actrees.org an announce-only list for ACT's NeighborWoods Network http://actrees.org/site/lists/friends To Unsubscribe: Reply to this email with the subject "remove please" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jared at actrees.org Thu Oct 15 15:30:18 2009 From: jared at actrees.org (Jared Liu) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:30:18 -0400 Subject: [ACT] Celebrate NeighborWoods Month 2009- Week 3 Message-ID: Seeing only text and no pictures? View the newsletter here: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/nwm_09oct15.html October 15, 2009 Week 3 Photo Contest Volunteer Award Planning Kit Promotional Gear Register 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 14.9 million trees with help from 4.3 million volunteers. QUICK LINKS Join ACT Resources Newsroom NATIONAL SPONSOR CONTRIBUTORS WEEK 3 Pittsburgh Volunteers to Improve Women's Shelter In partnership with Sojourner House, Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest will be joined by Mayor Ravenstahl, Team Depot, and local residents to plant trees around the MOMS Shelter in East Liberty. This event is just one of more than 600 events in 231 cities this month. Register your event today or volunteer with one near you... there are events every day! Join the campaign! SEND US YOUR SNAPS Win $500 This year, we're looking for great action shots that celebrate a spirit of volunteerism and stewardship for trees. Send us your inspiring, surprising, or amusing photos and we'll feature your images at the ACT Annual Meeting and Member Rally. The winning photograph will receive a $500 Home Depot gift card. Submit your photos VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR Win a trip to Washington, DC for one of your volunteers! ACT is pleased to announce it is accepting nominations for Volunteer of the Year. This is an opportunity for ACT members to share inspirational accounts of volunteers in action and have them gain national recognition for their local contributions! Nominate a volunteer PLANNING & PROMOTION KIT Promote local efforts- Link to the national campaign The NeighborWoods Month Planning and Promotion Kit provides everything you need to promote your NeighborWoods Month event, including tools to attract new partners, ideas, helpful hints, and sample documents and forms. The kit will help you think through your NeighborWoods Month events. From tips on how to get started to post-event evaluations, the carefully designed tools and information provided in this kit support your ongoing efforts to present a consistent and compelling image of your organization?s value to your stakeholders. Download the Planning Kit FREE GEAR AND MATERIALS Order NeighborWoods Promotional Gear By registering your October event with ACT, you will receive free professionally designed marketing materials including T-shirts, posters, banners, door hangers, toolbelts, and kids' activity cards. See samples and order additional quantities! Order Free Gear REGISTER YOUR EVENT Join the Campaign! How can NeighborWoods benefit you? * Builds partnerships and recognition * Improves quality of life * Educates people about trees Help us promote your work. Register your event today. Register your event Please use and share ACT's materials freely with anyone interested in 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) 2009 Alliance for Community Trees To Subscribe/Unsubscribe: friends at actrees.org an announce-only list for ACT's NeighborWoods Network http://actrees.org/site/lists/friends -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jared at actrees.org Fri Oct 16 12:03:45 2009 From: jared at actrees.org (Jared Liu) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:03:45 -0400 Subject: [ACT] Annual Member Rally 2009- Portland Message-ID: <8046B89C-6D0A-4865-A913-D9AD03F2FCC3@actrees.org> Seeing only text and no pictures? View the newsletter here: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/annualmtg_09oct16.html#roundtable October 16, 2009 Registration Scholarship Service Event Marketing Seminar Board Meeting Member Meeting ACT Reception Schmidt Tour Roundtable 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 14.9 million trees with help from 4.3 million volunteers. ABOUT WEBCASTS The Third Thursday Webcast 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 PRE-CONFERENCE FINAL REMINDERS November 7-11, 2009 Portland, OR If you haven't applied for a travel scholarship or confirmed your spot at any of these pre-conference events, there is still time. Space is limited, and requests will be honored on a first-come, first-serve basis. So reply now! Registration Registration is being handled by Arbor Day. Mention priority code 7003. Register at: arborday.org/pcf Register now SCHOLARSHIP Deadline: Rolling There is still time to apply for one of the limited number of travel scholarships available. Eligibility is contingent upon being a member in good standing and attending the entire conference Nov. 8-11. Apply for a Scholarship SERVICE EVENT November 8, 1:30-4:30pm Friends of Trees invites you to participate in a volunteer project to plant trees along the I-205 bike path, in support of the Greenspace Initiative. This service event is more than a way to catch-up with friends... it is an opportunity to learn from some of the best volunteer organizers in urban forestry. We invite you to start off your conference experience by seeing first-hand how they do things in Portland! Dress for damp weather. Vans depart from the hotel. Sign up for the Service Event MARKETING SEMINAR November 8, 1:30-4:30pm Marketing expert Robert Palmer delivers one of our most popular seminars from the Community Tree Leadership Forum workshop series: "Leveraging a Positive Perception in a Competitive Marketplace." The program focuses on the fundamentals of good marketing with community trees as the product. This workshop will send you home with a polished and concise message to better communicate your goals to stakeholders. Sign up for the Marketing Seminar ACT BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING November 8, 3:00-5:00pm (closed meeting) The Alliance for Community Trees Board of Directors will hold a two- hour business meeting. ACT members are welcome to observe. ACT ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING November 8, 5:00-6:00pm (open meeting) Alliance for Community Trees? State of the Union Report for ACT Member Organizations, the membership meeting will provide critical updates informing ACT Members? work in the coming year. Members will endorse ACT?s National Advocacy Agenda for 2010, pledge local action, and hear the latest on ACT?s achievements, programs, and partnerships benefiting ACT members. An update on member trends and benchmarks will be provided. Guests welcome. Confirm for the Annual Membership Meeting ACT MEMBER RECEPTION Sunday, 7:00-9:00pm (invitation only) Bartlett Tree Experts, Portland Bureau of Environmental Services, Audubon Society of Portland and Friends of Trees are hosting a reception for ACT Members and Friends at the Audubon Society of Portland. Due to limited capacity, this event is by invitation only. For information, contact Jared Liu at 301-277-0040. Confirm for the ACT Reception SCHMIDT TOUR & DEMONSTRATION November 7, 12-4:00pm (pre-conference option) J. Frank Schmidt is opening their beautiful 10-acre arboretum to conference goers as well as offering demonstrations on bare root and B&B digging (by hand and by machine), grafting techniques, and choosing quality bare root and container stock. More than 400 varieties and cultivars of deciduous trees are grown at the nursery. Since this conference is in the heart of tree-growing country- more than 23% of the country?s deciduous shade and flowering trees are grown here- this is a perfect addition to the week's activities. Shuttle service will run from from the MAX Line in Gresham. Reserve your spot at the Arboretum ROUNDTABLE ON COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT November 10, 5:30-6:30pm Cornell University wants to learn from you about how to engage community participation in urban forest stewardship. Cornell Cooperative Extension-NYC is partnering with ACT to develop research- proven models for effective community engagement. We invite you to share your experience with the research team as Cornell embarks on this exciting project. Refreshments provided. Please use and share ACT's materials freely with anyone interested in 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) 2009 Alliance for Community Trees To Subscribe: friends at actrees.org an announce-only list for ACT's NeighborWoods Network http://actrees.org/site/lists/friends To Unsubscribe: Reply to this email with the subject "remove please" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jared at actrees.org Mon Oct 19 12:58:37 2009 From: jared at actrees.org (Jared Liu) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:58:37 -0400 Subject: [ACT] Treebune News- PA Climate Plan and Casey Trees Report Card Message-ID: <5FC396B2-686A-4F87-86F5-3C163A3D2A37@actrees.org> Seeing only text and no pictures? View the newsletter here: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/treebune_09oct19.html October 19, 2009 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 14.9 million trees with help from 4.3 million volunteers. NATIONAL SPONSOR SUPPORT ACT NATIONAL NEWS PA Outlines Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Protect Economy, Environment (Philadelphia, PA)- Governor Rendell announced that the commonwealth is taking significant steps in its efforts to avoid the devastating effects of climate change as he outlined recommendations from the state's Climate Change Action Plan, which are now open for public comment. The report recommends 52 actions- including urban forestry action- to help the state reduce greenhouse gas emissions that lead to a changing climate. Read the full story LOCAL STORY Tree Report Card Webcast On October 28 at 1pm EST, Casey Trees will present a webcast on their Annual Tree Report Card. The Tree Report Card is the only independent evaluation of the District's trees and tree canopy and possibly the first such assessment in the Nation. For 2009, the Tree Report Card Grade scored Washington, DC a grade of B. Read the full story Please use and share ACT's materials freely with anyone interested in 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) 2009 Alliance for Community Trees To Subscribe: friends at actrees.org an announce-only list for ACT's NeighborWoods Network http://actrees.org/site/lists/friends To Unsubscribe: Reply to this email with the subject "remove please" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jared at actrees.org Thu Oct 22 22:20:58 2009 From: jared at actrees.org (Jared Liu) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:20:58 -0400 Subject: [ACT] Celebrate NeighborWoods Month 2009- Week 4 Message-ID: <1B094068-7BC2-4A62-9BA3-CBC5409EAA54@actrees.org> Seeing only text and no pictures? View the newsletter here: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/nwm_09oct22.html October 22, 2009 Week 4 Photo Contest Volunteer Award Planning Kit Promotional Gear Register 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 14.9 million trees with help from 4.3 million volunteers. QUICK LINKS Join ACT Resources Newsroom NATIONAL SPONSOR CONTRIBUTORS WEEK 4 Tulsa Plans 18 NeighborWoods Month Events! Four of Up With Trees' 18 NeighborWoods Month events happen this week. Last week they kicked off the campaign to replant the 20,000 trees lost in the December 2007 ice storm with a press conference that included State Rep. Jeannie McDaniel, and officials from U.S. Cong. Sullivan's office and the mayor's Community Development Director. This week, the campaign continues at the Skelly Early Chilood Education Center, where Up With Trees will be joined by volunteers from area Home Depot stores. This event is just one of more than 600 events in 231 cities this month. Register your event today or volunteer with one near you... there are events every day! Join the campaign! SEND US YOUR SNAPS Win $500 This year, we're looking for great action shots that celebrate a spirit of volunteerism and stewardship for trees. Send us your inspiring, surprising, or amusing photos and we'll feature your images at the ACT Annual Meeting and Member Rally. The winning photograph will receive a $500 Home Depot gift card. Submit your photos VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR Win a trip to Washington, DC for one of your volunteers! ACT is pleased to announce it is accepting nominations for Volunteer of the Year. This is an opportunity for ACT members to share inspirational accounts of volunteers in action and have them gain national recognition for their local contributions! Nominate a volunteer PLANNING & PROMOTION KIT Promote local efforts- Link to the national campaign The NeighborWoods Month Planning and Promotion Kit provides everything you need to promote your NeighborWoods Month event, including tools to attract new partners, ideas, helpful hints, and sample documents and forms. The kit will help you think through your NeighborWoods Month events. Download the Planning Kit FREE GEAR AND MATERIALS Order NeighborWoods Promotional Gear By registering your October event with ACT, you will receive free professionally designed marketing materials including T-shirts, posters, banners, door hangers, toolbelts, and kids' activity cards. See samples and order additional quantities! Order Free Gear REGISTER YOUR EVENT Join the Campaign! How can NeighborWoods benefit you? * Builds partnerships and recognition * Improves quality of life * Educates people about trees Help us promote your work. Register your event today. Register your event Please use and share ACT's materials freely with anyone interested in 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) 2009 Alliance for Community Trees To Subscribe/Unsubscribe: friends at actrees.org an announce-only list for ACT's NeighborWoods Network http://actrees.org/site/lists/friends -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jared at actrees.org Mon Oct 26 12:03:02 2009 From: jared at actrees.org (Jared Liu) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:03:02 -0400 Subject: [ACT] Treebune News- London 2025 Green Plan and Business Raise Money for Post-Ike Trees Message-ID: <632697A0-E0D7-43E1-ADE7-7CE0DEFE60EC@actrees.org> Seeing only text and no pictures? View the newsletter here: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/treebune_09oct26.html October 26, 2009 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 14.9 million trees with help from 4.3 million volunteers. NATIONAL SPONSOR SUPPORT ACT NATIONAL NEWS London To Plant 2 Million Trees By 2025 Under Green Plan (London)- In an effort to fend off a projected temperature rise in London in the next several decades, the mayor of London's environment advisor announced a plan to increase the amount of tree. A recent study by The UK Climate Impacts Programme concluded that increasing the amount of plants and trees could offset rising temperatures. The planting of two million new trees in the city amounts to an increase of five percent of the city's tree population. Read the full story LOCAL STORY Businesses raise money for new trees (Galveston, TX)- A group of downtown business owners is hosted a street party to raise money to buy trees for the island's replanting efforts. The free event, featuring live music and food, was part of the citywide Hurricane Ike remembrance activities. The storm killed an estimated 30,000 trees, denuding much of the island's core urban area of its 100-year-old leafy canopy. The city's tree committee is working on replanting efforts, which will start in November. Read the full story Please use and share ACT's materials freely with anyone interested in 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) 2009 Alliance for Community Trees To Subscribe: friends at actrees.org an announce-only list for ACT's NeighborWoods Network http://actrees.org/site/lists/friends To Unsubscribe: Reply to this email with the subject "remove please" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jared at actrees.org Thu Oct 29 07:35:37 2009 From: jared at actrees.org (Jared Liu) Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:35:37 -0400 Subject: [ACT] Celebrate NeighborWoods Month- Final Week! Message-ID: <51B57DFD-17BF-49BA-B9CF-284E8C34EDE6@actrees.org> Seeing only text and no pictures? View the newsletter here: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/nwm_09oct29.html October 29, 2009 Week 5 Photo Contest Volunteer Award Planning Kit Promotional Gear Register 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. QUICK LINKS Join ACT Resources Newsroom NATIONAL SPONSOR CONTRIBUTORS WEEK 5 Final Week Engages Mayors in Asheville, Albuquerque, and Wilmington Mayors and other elected leaders around the country are teaming up with urban greening initatives to address clean air, green streets, and healthy neighborhoods. This week, the national movement storms to a successful close that, in total, will have seen more than 600 events in 231 cities this month. Register your event today or volunteer with one near you... there are events every day! Join the campaign! SEND US YOUR SNAPS Win $500 This year, we're looking for great action shots that celebrate a spirit of volunteerism and stewardship for trees. Send us your inspiring, surprising, or amusing photos and we'll feature your images at the ACT Annual Meeting and Member Rally. The winning photograph will receive a $500 Home Depot gift card. Submit your photos VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR Win a trip to Washington, DC for one of your volunteers! ACT is pleased to announce it is accepting nominations for Volunteer of the Year. This is an opportunity for ACT members to share inspirational accounts of volunteers in action and have them gain national recognition for their local contributions! This award is open to any individual (board member, community organizer, pro bono consultant, etc.) whose volunteer efforts have made a contribution to urban forestry by improving community trees and the neighborhoods which they are in. Nominate a volunteer PLANNING & PROMOTION KIT Promote local efforts- Link to the national campaign The NeighborWoods Month Planning and Promotion Kit provides everything you need to promote your NeighborWoods Month event, including tools to attract new partners, ideas, helpful hints, and sample documents and forms. The kit will help you think through your NeighborWoods Month events. From tips on how to get started to post-event evaluations, the carefully designed tools and information provided in this kit support your ongoing efforts to present a consistent and compelling image of your organization?s value to your stakeholders. Download the Planning Kit FREE GEAR AND MATERIALS Order NeighborWoods Promotional Gear By registering your October event with ACT, you will receive free professionally designed marketing materials including T-shirts, posters, banners, door hangers, toolbelts, and kids' activity cards. See samples and order additional quantities! Order Free Gear REGISTER YOUR EVENT Join the Campaign! How can NeighborWoods benefit you? * Builds partnerships and recognition * Improves quality of life * Educates people about trees Help us promote your work. Register your event today. Register your event Please use and share ACT's materials freely with anyone interested in 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 To Subscribe/Unsubscribe: friends at actrees.org an announce-only list for ACT's NeighborWoods Network http://actrees.org/site/lists/friends -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jared at actrees.org Fri Oct 30 09:29:43 2009 From: jared at actrees.org (Jared Liu) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:29:43 -0400 Subject: [ACT] Third Thursday Urban Forestry Webcast- Green Jobs Message-ID: <84BA1CFA-845C-48CF-944F-546F735D15F2@actrees.org> Seeing only text and no pictures? View the newsletter here: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/bbls_09nov19.html October 29, 2009 Session Topics First Segment Second Segment Network Exchange Register 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 14.9 million trees with help from 4.3 million volunteers. ABOUT WEBCASTS The Third Thursday Webcast 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 Putting the 'Green' Back Into Green Jobs Part II: Seeding Career Opportunities November 19, 2009 1:00- 2:00pm EST The green industry is a $40 billion market and increasing quickly. In many sectors of the green industry, including tree care, there is a job for every trained worker available. Some communities have caught on and are offering workforce training to expose adults and high school graduates to these career opportunities. Particularly, the partnership between urban youth and trees diversifies the green industry's work force and makes green areas more accessible to urban communities. Register now SESSION TOPICS Webcast attendees will learn: * Assembling a business plan. * Getting space donated or negotiating a lease. * Cost of operations and finding underwriters. * Meeting community needs through business ventures. * Cross sector partnerships that forge the process along. * Social enterprise activity. Register now NURSERY OPERATIONS Mary Washignton, Parks & People Foundation (Baltimore, MD) Parks & People Foundation has a wholesale tree nursery business specializing in native tree species that thrive in urban environments in the mid-Atlantic. The operation is particularly appealing because it provides: jobs, educational opportunities, community garden space, and cleaner air and water. Register now GREEN CAREERS MENTORING Nancy Wolf, Magnolia Tree Earth Center (Bronx, NY) New York operates two programs that teach school-age children about green jobs. The ideas are to make students aware of job possibilities- such as solar energy and green architecture- and help kids continue with a green education or move them into the green workforce. Register now NEIGHBORWOODS NETWORK EXCHANGE Extended Learning- On the Ground 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! Join the webcast to learn more about the NeighborWoods Network Exchange and how you can spend a week shadowing another ACT member. Register now REGISTER FOR ALL WEBCASTS: http://actrees.org/site/stories/act_webcast_series.php Please use and share ACT's materials freely with anyone interested in urban forestry, but with this copyright notice intact. Send a copy of the cited publication to: Alliance for Community Trees ? 4603 Calvert Road ? 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