Updates
What’s new at ReLeaf, and an archive of our grants, press, events, resources and more
Webinar Recording Now Available: Budgeting for Tree Care Success
About the Webinar California ReLeaf hosted an Educational Webinar, Budgeting for Tree Care Success, on September 13, 2023. The webinar was designed to help organizations/grant writers learn how to budget for the success of their upcoming grant proposal or your new or...
Advocacy Update on Assembly Bill 1573
UPDATE! As of August 17, 2023 Your outreach to the Senate Appropriations Committee has not gone unnoticed – it has made a significant difference. Today, we are pleased to inform you that Assembly Bill 1573 has been amended. These amendments reflect a collaborative...
Arbor Week Grantee Story Highlight – SistersWe
SistersWe Community Gardening Projects San Bernardino, CA California Arbor Week grant funding helped SistersWe host three tree-planting events throughout the Inland Empire. They planted in residential neighborhoods in Corona, at a daycare facility in Fontana, and at...
Learn Over Lunch with Tree Fresno – Recording Now Available
Learn Over Lunch with Tree Fresno was hosted over Zoom on August 9, 2023. Tree Fresno presented on their "Green Team Youth Ambassador Program" -- an urban forest workforce development program they created in partnership with the Fresno Metro Black Chamber of...
2023 Network Impact Survey
ReLeaf Network Members, Help us share your organization's “tree-mendous” impact to the U.S. Forest Service and CAL FIRE. Please take our Network Impact Survey! The data collected is important to our federal and state Urban and Community Forestry partners and helps us...
Upcoming Webinar: Budgeting for Tree Care Success – September 13th at 11 a.m.
Budgeting for Tree Care Success Guest Speaker: Doug Wildman Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 Time: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Cost: FREE Webinar Description: Don’t short-change your tree-planting program! Learn how to budget for the success of your upcoming grant proposal...
Growing Green Communities Grantee Story Highlight – Pardee Home Museum
Pardee Home Museum, Inc. Oakland, CAThe Pardee Home Museum partnered with Trees for Oakland, Jack London Business Improvement District, Downtown Business Improvement District (BID), and Old Oakland Neighbors to create an Arbor Day tree-planting event with the Growing...
2023 Network Retreat Presentation Recordings
We had a tree-mendous time at our 2023 ReLeaf Network Retreat in Sacramento! Below are all our presentation recordings from the Network Retreat. We hope you will find these presentations to be a useful resource. Download Retreat Speaker Bios Download the 2023 Network...
Inflation Reduction Act Urban and Community Forestry Program Funding Opportunity: Resources and Webinars
The USDA Forest Service released its Urban & Community Forestry Inflation Reduction Act Grants - Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) on April 12th. Application Deadline: June 1, 2023 by 8:59 Pacific Time/ 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Award...
Update on the USDA Forest Service’s UCF Grant Funding Opportunity under the IRA – Public Notice of Funding Opportunity Coming in Early April 2023
The White House Council on Environmental Quality held a virtual briefing about the USDA Forest Service’s UCF Grant Funding Opportunity on Wednesday, March 29th at 12 p.m. PT. During the briefing, Beattra Wilson, who is the USDA Forest Services’ Assistant Director of...
2023 Arbor Week Press Conference
California ReLeaf held an Arbor Week press conference on Tuesday, March 7th, at South Prescott Park in Oakland with our partners, CAL FIRE, USDA Forest Service, Edison International, Blue Shield of California, Common Vision, and Oakland community leaders. Please see...
2023 Arbor Week Poster Contest Winners
Tree Cheers to our Contest Winners! Budding artists from all over the state made colorful and joyful posters with the theme of “Trees Plant a Cooler” while learning about the benefits of trees and celebrating our urban forests. The Poster Contest Winners were unveiled...
Congratulations to our 2023 Arbor Week Poster Contest Honorable Mentions!
Our 2023 Arbor Week Poster Contest asked California kids to ponder how planting trees and caring for trees can help make our communities cooler and healthier places to live. We appreciate all the beautiful entries young artists sent in. Here are the pictures receiving...
Advocacy: AB 57 Pocket Forests for California
Thanks to Assemblymember Ash Kalra, we have a chance to grow wild and diverse forests across California! His Assembly Bill 57 creates a pilot program to deliver pocket forests statewide. To make sure the bill passes, California ReLeaf is helping coordinate a letter to...
City Trees Magazine is Now Accessible to Everyone!
City Trees is the magazine of the Society of Municipal Arborists (SMA) and is now freely available to everyone. Here’s how you can access City Trees, an international, bimonthly online magazine about all things urban forestry: The Jan/Feb 2023 City Trees is here You...