Greening New Jersey, one tree at a time.
Interested in learning how to prune your recently planted trees? We are launching a new “pruning party” program during the off season! If you are interested in having your young street trees maintained and you live in Gloucester City, Camden, Trenton, or Newark, please let us know! South Jersey residents should contact Meredith at mbrown@njtreefoundation.org. Residents living in North Jersey should reach out to Crystal at cwessel@njtreefounation.org.
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The NJ Tree Foundation had a lot to celebrate in 2019 – including environmental justice and planting our 7,000th tree in Camden!
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The NJ Tree Foundation is very excited to let you know that we are a part of the A Community Thrives Challenge. It’s a friendly fundraising campaign launched by USA Today where organizations compete to raise the most money with the top teams winning weekly prize cash donations.
It starts Monday March 18th at 12pm and runs through Friday April 12th at 11:59pm. Each week the organizations with the most donations will get bonus matches of up to $5,000 from USA Today!
The New Jersey Tree Foundation, Bergen County & Public Service Electric & Gas are offering this FREE seminar on Planting the Right Tree in the Right Place, the Right Way on Friday, April 12th from 8am – Noon at 2 Bergen County Plaza, First Floor Conference Room, Hackensack, NJ. To attend, please RSVP by Friday, April 5th to Lisa Simms LSimms@NJTreeFoundation.org Seating is limited – don’t miss out!
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Do you have a shovel-ready tree planting project? The New Jersey Tree Foundation wants to help it come to fruition! Shovel-ready projects are tree planting projects where tree locations and numbers have already been decided on and the only thing missing is funding. The NJ Tree Foundation will work with applicants to find and apply for grants to fund the project and, if awarded, will partner with you to organize and conduct the planting with volunteers.
Our Renaissance Trees Program, which traditionally has focused its tree planting efforts in Newark, held a community-based tree planting in Irvington in November. We planted 32 trees around the Chancellor Avenue Elementary School and Park Place Apartments. Principal Jackson, who coordinated a tree planting event at a Newark school with us in 2009, was very excited to work with the NJ Tree Foundation again! Read more
Last chance in 2018 to get 3 CEUs!