TREE PLANTING GRANTS FOR MINNEAPOLIS & St. PAUL+
* Applications due January 19, 2001.
* Grants up to $10,000 for tree planing during spring 2001.
* Businesses, community groups, cities, churches and schools are eligible.
* Details from Gail Nozal at Tree Trust, 952/920-9326 or e-mailto:[email protected]
The program UNITREE, administered by the non-profit organization Tree Trust, helps promote energy conservation, improve air quality through urban reforestation and educate the public about the community forest. Grants are available for the Minneapolis neighborhoods Marcy Holmes, SE Como, Cedar-Riverside, Prospect Park-East River Road, Phillips, Seward, SE Industrial and Elliot Park. In St. Paul the St. Anthony, Como (west of Hamline) and Energy Park neighborhoods are eligible along with organizations in the cities of Falcon Heights and Lauderdale.
Tree Trust will provide up to an average of $100/tree, provide support in developing and reviewing applications, order and deliver plants and trees and provide educational support and hands-on demonstrations
to the grantee. To qualify for a grant, organizations must develop a planting project with at least 75% trees, organize local community volunteers to learn about and help with planting, and provide a long term maintenance plan. They are also required to provide $10 per tree or 6
shrubs planted.
