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Target Employees Dig In
Target team members in eight cities across the U.S. showed up in force to improve the communities they call home — planting more than 2,000 trees.
Category
Trees in Communities
Topic
Corporate Partnerships
Location
8 project cities
Volunteers Engaged
417
Target’s Ask
Target employees expressed a desire to enhance the communities in which they live and work.
Target saw this as an opportunity to amplify their Environmental, Social and Governance goals, specifically in the value they bring to their communities. They were looking for a partner who could scale thoughtful, high-impact local projects across the entire nation.
Arbor Day Foundation’s Answer
Not every community has the same need — which is why the Arbor Day Foundation worked with Target to identify key necessities in the areas they wanted to plant.
Stretching across America from Philadelphia to Santa Barbara, our local network helped plant trees that served a variety of needs — including low-income neighborhoods with low-canopy coverage, food desert communities that needed sustenance, and cities damaged by wildfires and natural disasters.
Impact
2,000+
Trees planted
$39K
Value of volunteer time projected
62M+
Gallons avoided water runoff*
2,627
Metric tons of CO2 captured*
*Based on projected cummulative values by 2070
