Seeds to Trees Program Visits I.S. 171
Thursday June 19th was not a typical Thursday for some of the students at East New York’s Intermediary School 171, located in one of our Trees for Public Health Neighborhoods. Four educators from City Parks Foundation presented the Seeds to Trees program to more than 50 students in grades five through seven. Read more…

NYC Homeowners and family members adopt free trees in May
In celebration of New York City’s first ever MillionTreesNYC Month, 1,000 FREE trees were given away to homeowners and family members throughout the City’s five boroughs in May. Read more…

MillionTreesNYC is awarded world’s number one design by Met Home
MillionTreesNYC was designated as the world’s number one ground-breaking design by Met Home in May. Celebrating its 11th annual issue, Met Home created its iconic Design 100 to honor 100 of the world’s most noteworthy personalities, places, objects and extraordinary concepts in the world of creative design. Read more…

New Trees Planted at P.S. 96 Move City Closer to Million Tree Goal
Manhattan Parks Commissioner Bill Castro, Senator Bill Perkins, Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell, IV, Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito, Chair of Community Board 11 Robert Rodriguez and students from P.S. 96 planted a ceremonial tree on May 30th to celebrate 23 new trees planted on 120th street next to the school, as part of the City’s MillionTreesNYC initiative. Read more…

Last chance to apply for Partnerships Academy: Street Trees
If you've ever dreamed up a project to take care of the neglected street trees in your community, if you've ever sat around thinking of creative, long-term, community-based solutions to educate and get others to dig in and help … it's a great time to turn those ideas into reality. Join a group of like-minded people in our new program, Partnerships Academy: Street Trees! Applications are due June 15, 2008. Read more…

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