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Friends of the Urban Forest
Organization description:San Franciscans rely on Friends of the Urban Forest to help them plant and maintain trees for a more beautiful and healthy city. Since 1981, FUF’s community-based tree plantings have literally transformed San Francisco’s cityscape. All told, FUF has planted nearly 40,000 trees, which represents more than 40 percent of all the city’s street trees. FUF accomplishes this through coordinating neighborhood tree plantings. On two Saturday’s a month, FUF volunteers and organizers help bring a neighborhood together in a celebration of tree planting. Essentially, what FUF does is community development through the process of tree plantings. At any given planting, neighbors are learning more about each other (in some cases, they are learning each other’s names for the first time), children are playing together, and the local residents are collaboratively making their community a more beautiful and healthy place. And after FUF leaves at the end of the day, what’s left behind are lasting--and growing--reminders of what the community did that day: Thriving trees in front of many homes. Contact:Kelly Quirke (415) 561-6890 kelly@fuf.net http//:www.fuf.net |
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