Project

Community Roots Program

The Arbor Day Foundation is supporting urban forestry projects led by all federally recognized Tribes, Alaska Native Corporations/villages, Tribal organizations, organizations working in Tribal communities, and community-based non-profits. The Community Roots Program, made possible through Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funding, makes community-empowering projects possible.

Arbor Day Foundation funding oppportunity

Federally recognized Tribes, Tribal organizations, and organizations working in Tribal communities are eligible.

The Arbor Day Foundation (ADF) is pleased to be a recipient of grant funding from the USDA Forest Service Urban & Community Forestry Program, under the Inflation Reduction Act (Funding Opportunity #: USDA-FS-2023-UCF-IRA-01). We will serve as a national pass-through partner of the Forest Service, providing funding for Federally Recognized Tribes and Tribal organizations, as defined below.

Through this opportunity, the Arbor Day Foundation aims to support investment in tree planting and maintenance, planning, and capacity building, led by the unique needs, knowledge, and ambitions of individual Tribal subawardees. Recipients will have access to a cohort of peers and experts within the Arbor Day Foundation and the Urban and Community Forestry Society (UCFS)’s networks and the opportunity to connect with mentors/coaches from around the nation. Subawardees will also be invited to attend the annual Partners in Community Forestry conference to further develop their urban forestry network.

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Tribe Awardees

Congratulations to the following recipients of Community Roots Program funding for Tribal communities:

Bad River Band and Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians with Fruit Tree Planting Foundation

Intertribal Community Tree Planting for Food Sovereignty & Land Renewal: Bad River and Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Wisconsin)

Bay Mills Indian Community with Fruit Tree Planting Foundation

Bay Mills Indian Community: Tree Planting for Food Sovereignty, Land Stewardship, & Cultural Resilience (Michigan)

Catawba Nation with Fruit Tree Planting Foundation

Healing the Earth as We Heal Ourselves: Catawba Nation Orchard & Forest Planting (South Carolina)

Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma

Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Multi-Site Restoration for Climate Resiliency (Oklahoma)

Cocopah Tribe of Arizona with Arizona Community Tree Council, Inc.

Colorado River Tribal Arboriculture Youth Conservation Corps (Arizona)

Louden Tribe with Galena City School District

Restoring Our Original Terrain and Species (Alaska)

Miccosukee Tribe of Indians

Miccosukee Community Forest Project (Florida)

Native Village of Tyonek

Establishing a Tribal Community Food Forest to Promote Food Sovereignty and Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Native Village of Tyonek (Alaska)

Navajo Nation and Pueblo of Zuni with Fruit Tree Planting Foundation

Navajo Nation & Zuni Pueblo: Health and Healing through Orchards (Arizona & New Mexico)

Omaha Tribe of Nebraska with Midlands Community Foundation

Omaha Indian Tribe Project (Nebraska)

Ponca Tribe of Nebraska

Community Garden and Reforestation Intiative (Nebraska)

Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico

Picuris Community Roots Program (New Mexico)

Quapaw Nation

Northeast Oklahoma Tribal Community Roots Initiative (Oklahoma)

Rappahannock Tribe, Inc. with Friends of the Rappahannock, Inc.

Building Capacity for Forest Stewardship on Ancestral Lands of the Rappahannock Tribe (Virginia)

Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota with Rosebud Economic Development Corp

Creating a Sustainable Treescape at Keya Wakpala (South Dakota)

The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Community Roots Program (Oklahoma)

Arbor Day Foundation funding oppportunity

Community-based nonprofit organizations are eligible.

The Arbor Day Foundation (ADF) is pleased to be a recipient of grant funding from the USDA Forest Service Urban & Community Forestry Program, under the Inflation Reduction Act (Funding Opportunity #: USDA-FS-2023-UCF-IRA-01). We will serve as a national pass-through partner of the Forest Service, providing funding for community-based nonprofit organizations, as defined below.

The Arbor Day Foundation is positioned to drive investments in tree planting and maintenance, planning, and capacity building in selected communities. Subawardees will have access to a cohort of peers and experts within the Arbor Day Foundation and the Urban and Community Forestry Society (UCFS)’s networks and the opportunity to connect with mentors/coaches from around the nation. Subawardees will also be invited to attend the annual Partners in Community Forestry conference to further develop their urban forestry network.

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Community-Based Nonprofit Organization Awardees

Congratulations to the following recipients of Community Roots Program funding for community-based non-profits:

Alief Super Neighborhood Council 25

Alief Arbor Initiative (Alief, TX)

Alliance for Cape Fear Trees

Capacity Building to Improve the Canopy Through Integrated Tree Care and Community Outreach (Wilmington, NC)

Beyond Housing

24:1 Tree Canopy Restoration (St. Louis, MO)

Denver Urban Gardens

Dig Deeper Initiative: Food Forests (Denver, CO)

Forest ReLeaf of Missouri

CommuniTree Program Expansion (Kansas City, MO, St. Louis, MO, and various communities across Missouri)

Friends of Bellefontaine Cemetery

Enhancing Community and Ecological Health through Tree Management (St. Louis, MO)

Friends of the Rappahannock

Expanding Urban and Community Forestry Opportunities in the Rappahannock and York River Watershed (Various communities in Virginia)

Friends of the Urban Forest

Adopt-A-Yard-Tree (San Francisco, CA)

Mississippi Children's Museum – Meridian

Deep Roots Urban Pocket Park (Meridian, MS)

Newport Tree Conservancy

Increasing Tree Canopy and Environmental Stewardship in Newport (Newport, RI)

Oregon Urban Rural and Community Forestry

Rogue Valley's Treesilience: Transforming Urban Canopies Together (Jackson County, OR)

ReTreeUS

Growing Roots of Environmental Justice through School and Community Orchard Capacity Building (Various communities across Maine and New Hampshire)

Roytens Enrichment Academy Community Hope (REACH)

TreeVitalize: Sowing Community Roots Together (California City, CA)

Sacramento Tree Foundation

Community Forests and Education (Sacramento, CA)

Serve Ethiopians Washington

South King County Tree Captains (Seattle, WA)

Speak for the Trees

NeighborWoods (Boston, MA)

Sustaining Our Urban Landscape (SOUL)

Reforesting New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward (New Orleans, LA)

Tree Trust

Cooling Northern Dakota County (Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN)