Announcements
2025 Quick Start applications are due (postmarked) by 5 p.m. on March 6, 2025.
2024 NYSUFC Tree Campus K-12 Grants are due (postmarked) by 5 p.m. on October 10, 2024.
2024 Tree City USA Reward Grant applications are due (postmarked) by 5 p.m. on August 30, 2024.
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The NYSUFC offers three kinds of grants for New York State communities: Quick Start, Tree Campus K-12 and Tree City USA Reward.
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TREE CITY USA Reward Grants
The intent of this grant is to encourage municipalities to sustain their community forestry program and maintain their status as a Tree City USA through a celebratory tree planting, in the fall, in which large specimen trees or a grove of trees are planted in a prominent location within the community. The grants are made possible by a combination of U.S. Forest Service grant funds and unrestricted NYSUFC funds. Applicants must have been a Tree City USA for at least the past five years.
Tree Campus K-12 Grants
The intent of this grant is to assist schools in educating and connecting students to trees, and to move the school toward becoming recognized as an Arbor Day Foundation Tree Campus K-12. The in-kind grant is valued at up to $500 of trees/planting materials and educational supplies.
Quick Start Grants
Through U.S. Forest Service funding, the NYSUFC offers Quick Start competitive grants of up to $1,000 each to small communities who want to pursue Tree City USA status, starting with an inaugural Arbor Day tree planting celebration in the spring.
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