Please help find Mark Bosworth! A Metro employee, dedicated cyclist, and longtime supporter of Friends of Trees, Mark has been missing since the night of September 16. He was last seen by his Cycle Oregon colleagues in Riddle, Oregon. Mark’s family believes he may be disoriented as a result of the lymphoma he’s been battling [...]
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Friends of Trees is excited to be chosen by Oregon Business as one of the best 100 nonprofits to work for in Oregon. Several Friends of Trees staff members are featured in this video: Read more about Oregon Business’s 2011 list of 100 Best Nonprofits. –TR
Friends of Trees was featured on CNN Headline News recently. Ken Ackerman of Comcast Newsmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington interviewed Tom Atiyeh of Friends of Trees’ development team at Governor Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Comcast Newsmakers, whose tagline is “local leaders discussing local issues and local ideas,” highlights community leaders and local, state, and [...]
Friends of Trees is honored to receive a $10,000 grant from REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.) in Portland to support two Green Space Initiative plantings along the I-205 Multi-Use Path and $5,000 from REI in Eugene for natural area restoration work in the Eugene-Springfield area. This fall and winter mark the third planting season of the [...]
