Updates
What’s new at ReLeaf, and an archive of our grants, press, events, resources and more
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...
Educational Webinar Recording: Improving Your Planting Program Through Tree Health Monitoring
This California ReLeaf educational webinar was recorded on January 26, 2023. This webinar was designed to assist tree organizations in understanding how tree health monitoring and data collecting can help with tree species selection and avoid mistakes that can lead to...
Growing Green Communities 2023 Grant Award Winners
California ReLeaf is thrilled to announce this year’s grantees for the 2023 Growing Green Communities Grant! We look forward to their tree planting and tree education events, made possible by the generous sponsorship of Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)....
California Arbor Week 2023 Grant Award Winners
California ReLeaf is delighted to announce this year’s grantees for the California Arbor Week program! We look forward to their celebratory tree planting and tree education events, made possible by the generous sponsorship of Edison International. We also appreciate...
2023 Learn Over Lunch Series
Learn Over Lunch (LOL) is back for Network Members in 2023! This year, we will host Learn Over Lunch sessions over zoom every other month on select Wednesdays from 11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m. LOLs are a great opportunity to learn about what Network Members are doing across...
Welcoming Shannon McDonald to California ReLeaf
Join us in welcoming Shannon McDonald, our new Finance & Operations Program Manager! Shannon joined California ReLeaf in late 2022 with over seven years of nonprofit management experience. At California ReLeaf, Shannon is responsible for financial administration...
Our 2022 Annual Report
Dear Friends of ReLeaf, Thank you for being a champion of California’s urban forests. We greatly appreciate your support of California ReLeaf. Over the last year, we’ve celebrated transformative community-based canopy projects of our grantees and ReLeaf Network...
2023 Network Retreat
Retreat Information The Network Retreat is the annual get-together for California’s urban forest nonprofits and community organizations dedicated to improving the health and livability of California cities by planting and caring for trees. Network Reception:...
Be Ready, Stay Ready – Preparing for Large Grant Applications
Are you ready? An unprecedented amount of public funding for urban and community forestry grants will be available over the next few years at the state and federal levels. At the Partners in Community Forestry conference in Seattle, the week before Thanksgiving,...