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...
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Learn Over Lunch with Tree Fresno – Recording Now Available
by Megan Dukett | Aug 9, 2023 | Network, Resources, Updates, Webinars
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
by Megan Dukett | Jul 24, 2023 | Network, Updates
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.
by Megan Dukett | Jul 20, 2023 | Events, Resources, Updates, Webinars
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
by Megan Dukett | Jul 15, 2023 | Grantee Stories
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
by Megan Dukett | May 18, 2023 | Events, Network, Resources, Updates, Webinars
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
by Megan Dukett | Apr 24, 2023 | Grants, Updates
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
by Megan Dukett | Mar 29, 2023 | Grants, Updates
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
by Megan Dukett | Mar 7, 2023 | Arbor Week, Press, Updates
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
by Megan Dukett | Mar 7, 2023 | Arbor Week, Press, Updates
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...