Tag: Friends of Trees
Tree Walks with the Tree Team for Give More 24!
Donate today to Friends of Trees and help plant more trees in southwest Washington!
To celebrate Give More 24, the Tree Team is hosting virtual tree walks, both live & recorded, on our social media channels. Garry Oak will make an appearance or two. Plus, the tree walks will feature a special guest from the City of Vancouver’s Urban Forestry team, former Tree Team Member Jesse Batty. Here’s the schedule for Give More 24 with the Tree Team, join us!
Please note that live tree walks are not open to the public due to social distancing regulations, please join us on the tree walks through our social media channels.
All events are subject to change due to weather or other considerations.
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| 10:00 | LIVE Welcome to Give More 24 with the Tree Team – with Garry Oak! Esther Short Park |  | ||
| 10:15 | LIVE Tree Walk in Esther Short Park with Vancouver Urban Forestry Specialist Jesse Batty | | ||
| 12:00 | LIVE tree walk in the Carter Park neighborhood with Jesse & Friends of Trees Interim Executive Director Whitney Dorer | | ||
| 2:00 | Esther Short Tree Walk available on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter | |  |  |
| 4:00 | Carter Park Tree Walk available on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter | | | |
| 6:30 | A message from Garry Oak | | | |
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Meeting our $3,000 goal today means that in just one day we’re 20% closer to bridging our tree gap in southwest Washington–and bridging our tree gap means everyone in our southwest Washington service area who wants a tree, gets a tree. When you donate to Friends of Trees with Give More 24 you are helping your neighbors get trees. Thank you for helping make this happen! Would you like a tree of your own? Get started here to get a tree.
Friends of Trees has been planting trees and growing community in Southwest Washington since 2003, and we’ve engaged local volunteers to plant 6,700 trees in here. In our last planting season, 600 volunteers donated more than 2,000 hours to plant 460 trees at 11 volunteer tree planting events in Vancouver and Clark County. Of course, our planting season this year will look a bit different as we respect social distancing and group size limits — but rest assured, we’ll still be planting trees and we’ll still be engaging with volunteers, You can learn more about what our volunteer events will look like this season here.
Friends of Trees plants 50,000+ trees and native shrubs every year throughout Western Oregon and Southwest Washington. Thanks to generous support from friends like you we’ve planted more than 850,000 trees and native shrubs in hundreds of neighborhoods and natural areas since 1989.
You can feel good about donating to Friends of Trees because all donations plant trees and bring people together.
Thank you for supporting trees + community!
Giving Tuesday Now – join us on May 5
In this time of uncertainty, there’s a fundamental truth that gives us hope: together we can do extraordinary things. Friends of Trees knows this so well since that’s what we do: We plant trees. Together. And to keep doing that, to ensure trees + community are in our future, we need your help – can we count on you, if you are at all able, to donate to Friends of Trees today? Not only will all donations plant trees + grow community, the first $2500 in Giving Tuesday Now donations will be matched by our good friends at Hopworks Urban Brewery – cheers!
Over the past few weeks and months, the entire world has been coming together to stand up, help out, give back, and heal. Whether that’s through donations to community organizations, celebrating doctors and nurses at shift changes, or reaching out to a neighbor to help with groceries, generosity has been helping the entire world get through this global pandemic. Together.
Friends of Trees is part of #GivingTuesdayNow and we invite you to join us. Giving Tuesday Now with the Tree Team is a virtual, day-long social media event featuring Tree Talks, LIVE tree walks, and more! Here’s our schedule, and here’s the schedule for Giving Tuesday Now with the Eugene Tree Team!
| Time | Topic | Where To Join | ||
| 9:00 | Welcome to Giving Tuesday Now with the Tree Team with Whitney Dorer, Interim Executive Director | | | |
| 10:00 | About the Neighborhood Trees Program Whitney Dorer | |||
| 10:30 | LIVE tree walk with Whitney | | ||
| 12:00 | About the Volunteer & Outreach Program Whitney | | | |
| 1:00 | LIVE: Sam Erman chats with Friends of Trees volunteer Maxine | | ||
| 2:00 | About the Green Space Program Whitney | | | |
| 2:30 | Tree Talk video: bigleaf maple Logan Lauvray, Green Space Program Manager | |||
| 5:00 | Why trees, why community Video message from Whitney | |||
| 5:30 | Tree Talk video: Cherry tree Oliver, the youngest Tree Team planter | |||
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Giving Tuesday Now with the Eugene Tree Team
In this time of uncertainty, there’s a fundamental truth that gives us hope: together we can do extraordinary things. Friends of Trees knows this so well since that’s what we do: We plant trees. Together. And to keep doing that, to ensure trees + community are in our future, we need your help – can we count on you, if you are able, to donate to Friends of Trees Eugene today? Not only will donations plant trees + grow community, the first $1,250 will be matched by our good friends at Journey Tree Financial – thank you!
Over the past few weeks and months, the entire world has been coming together to stand up, help out, give back, and heal. Whether that’s through donations to community organizations, celebrating doctors and nurses at shift changes, or reaching out to a neighbor to help with groceries, generosity has been helping the entire world get through this global pandemic. Together.
Friends of Trees Eugene is part of #GivingTuesdayNow and we invite you to join us. Giving Tuesday Now with the Eugene Tree Team is a virtual, day-long social media event featuring Tree Talks, LIVE tree walks, and more!
| Time | Topic | Where To Join | ||
| 9:00 | Welcome to Giving Tuesday Now with the Tree Team with Whitney Dorer, Interim Executive Director | | | |
| 10:00 | About the Neighborhood Trees Program with Whitney Dorer | | | |
| 10:30 | Tree Talk video: Oregon myrtle with Erik Burke, Eugene Director | | | |
| 12:00 | About the Volunteer & Outreach Program Taylor Glass, Volunteer and Planting Specialist | | | |
| 1:00 | LIVE: Taylor chats with Becca Snowdale about the volunteer program | | ||
| 2:00 | About the Green Space Program Becca Snowdale, Volunteer and Planting Specialist | | | |
| 2:30 | Tree Talk video: Pacific madrone with Becca Snowdale | | | |
| 3:00 | Tree Walk: Neighborhood Trees with Erik Burke | | ||
| 5:00 | Why trees, why community Video message from Whitney | | | |
| 5:30 | Tree Talk video: Cherry tree Oliver, the youngest Tree Team planter | | | |
Tree walks & tree talks for you
It’s the 50th anniversary of Earth Day this year. Friends of Trees was planning to celebrate in our usual fashion: Planting trees. Together. But, like everyone, our plans changed.
We would, of course, prefer to be outside with you. But since we can’t we have some really special virtual tree treats for you.
Since trees and nature can be so comforting, the Friends of Trees staff contributed to Earth Day with some homemade tree talk videos; we’re hoping these will tide you over until we can plant trees with you again. Below is a selection of our work, you can find the entire playlist here (we’ll be adding more, so check back!).
April 22 Earth Day Party with the Tree Team – it’s virtual!
In honor of Earth Day’s 50th anniversary Friends of Trees is hosting a virtual, day-long celebration on our social media channels – it’s the virtual EARTH DAY PARTY WITH THE TREE TEAM! Tune in on Wednesday, April 22, beginning at 10 a.m. We’ll have Tree Talks, LIVE tree walks, and more! Here’s the schedule, and here’s the agenda for the virtual Earth Day party hosted by Friends of Trees Eugene!
| Time | Topic | Where To Join | ||
| 10:00 | Tree Talk: Friends of Trees Neighborhood Trees Specialist Andrew Lands talks about the European beech Sponsored by J Frank Schmidt & Son | | | |
| 10:30 | Tree Walk LIVE: Andrew (who has TONS of tree knowledge!) talks about his favorite tree – and more! – with Corporate & Business Relations Specialist Sam Erman Sponsored by New Seasons Market | | ||
| 11:30 | Tree Talk LIVE with Timber Joey! That’s right, the Timbers’ beloved mascot Timber Joey will ask Sam his top tree questions. Not to be missed! Sponsored by the Portland Timbers | | ||
| Noon | Lunchtime Chat LIVE Learn about Friends of Trees’ EDI work and our Urban Forestry job training program. Sam joins Friends of Trees EDI Specialist Surabhi Mahajan for a Q & A. Sponsored by Portland General Electric | | ||
| 1:30 | Tree Walk LIVE Sam Erman visits some trees & talks about some of the many benefits of trees Sponsored by the Port of Portland | | ||
| 2:30 | Tree Talk Friends of Trees Green Space Specialist Hanna Dornhofer talks about the native Red flowering currant Sponsored by Oregon Soap Company and Cafe Yumm | | | |
| 3:00 | Tree Walk LIVE Hanna is joined by Sam at a restoration site as they explore some of the native trees and shrubs we plant, and more! Sponsored by Daimler Trucks North America / Portland Trail Blazers / Threes for Trees | | ||
| 4:30 | Tree Talk Friends of Trees Interim Executive Director Whitney Dorer visits some Giant sequoias Sponsored by the Portland Timbers | | | |
| 5:00 | LIVE chat with Friends of Trees Interim Executive Director Whitney Dorer. Whitney shares what she loves about trees + community. Sponsored by Portland General Electric | | ||
| 5:30 | We’ll recap Whitney’s chat in case you missed it Sponsored by Rigert Shade Trees | | | |
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THANK YOU to the sponsors of the Earth Day Party with the Tree Team!
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