Host a free yard tree giveaway by becoming a community partner. Community partners work with TreePhilly to host giveaway events each spring and fall.
The Community Yard Tree Giveaway program empowers Philadelphia nonprofits to green their neighborhood! Through this program, community groups partner with us to host tree giveaway events in their neighborhoods. TreePhilly provides FREE trees, event support, mulch, education, and a $200-500 grant award. Partners are responsible for hosting and promoting the event and connecting with their community.We release the Community Yard Tree Giveaway Grant application in January and August each year. Check out our blog to see the most recent application instructions and deadline.
How does my group become a Community Partner?
Is your group interested in our Community Yard Tree Giveaway Program? Apply through our grant application, available before each fall and spring giveaway season. We accept applications each January for the following spring and each August for the following fall. Any group that serves Philadelphians on a not-for-profit basis is a potential partner. Groups are also welcome to apply together on joint applications. For example, the neighborhood CDC could partner with a local business association. To apply for the Grant, community partners must have an organization with 501(c)(3) status as a fiscal sponsor. If your group does not have 501(c)(3) status, you can partner with another group that does to host a giveaway.
Grant applications are updated each season. To receive the grant application each season, email treephilly@phila.gov with your name and contact info, as well as your groups name and info.
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Spring 2021 Grants
TreePhilly continued our COVID-adapted contactless tree giveaway model in Spring 2021. As a testament to our community partner’s hard work, on average our partners placed 80% of the trees in their target communities, with 56.4% going to zipcodes with high priority for environmental justice to increase tree equity. 906 TreePhilly trees joined our urban forest this spring! The following groups hosted their own yard tree giveaways through our Community Yard Tree Giveaway program.
In Fall 2020 TreePhilly continued with the hybrid home-delivery and no-contact pick-up event model piloted in Spring 2020. The design allowed our community partnerships to deepen while also distributing as many trees as possible within COVID .Philadelphians planted 977 yard trees, TreePhilly and our partners increased accessibility by delivering 614 trees directly to the doorsteps of residents with limited mobility and higher risk for serious illness from COVID-19 and 48.5% of trees went to areas of higher priority for environmental justice!We could not have accomplished this without our amazing community partners. The following groups hosted their own yard tree giveaways through our Community Yard Tree Giveaway program.
In Spring 2020 with 22 Community Yard Tree Giveaway events planned across the city– the pandemic forced us to call off all in-person events. Over the course of two months, with the feedback from community partners, sister programs from around the country and safety guidelines from the City of Philadelphia we developed an adapted model of tree distribution. TreePhilly administered an adapted hybrid model for tree distribution that included: Two contactless tree pick-up events,138 door-to-door deliveries, and Community partner delivery grants. The pilot program was a success with 306 trees being delivered for residential planting.We could not have accomplished this without our amazing community partners. The following groups hosted their own yard tree giveaways through our Community Yard Tree Giveaway program.
2019 proved to be our most successful community partner giveaway season to date! In the Fall, we gave away 22 grants to 38 community organizations. That brings our 2019 season total to 1955 trees distributed in 42 of Philadelphia’s 48 zip codes. Groups were granted between 25 and 100 trees, as well as mulch, educational materials, and up to $500. We could not have accomplished this without our amazing community partners. The following groups hosted their own yard tree giveaways through our Community Yard Tree Giveaway program.
In Spring 2019 we gave 22 grants to community organizations through 22 giveaway events. Groups were granted between 25 and 100 trees, as well as mulch, educational materials, and up to $500. Our community partners this season helped us give away 1008 trees! The following groups hosted their own yard tree giveaways through our Community Yard Tree Giveaway program.
In Fall 2018 we gave 12 grants to community organizations through 17 giveaway events. Groups were granted between 25 and 100 trees, as well as mulch, educational materials, and up to $500. Our community partners this season helped us give away 784 trees in Fall 2018. That brings our 2018 season total to 1609! This is a huge accomplishment as it was the pilot season for our new exclusive community partnership model.
The following groups hosted their own yard tree giveaways through our Community Yard Tree Giveaway program.
In Spring 2018 we gave 13 grants to community organizations across the city–from faith-based organizations, to neighborhood associations, to community development organizations. Groups were granted between 25 and 100 trees, as well as mulch, educational materials, and up to $500. Our community partners this season helped us give away 825 trees in Spring 2018!
The following groups hosted their own yard tree giveaways through our Community Yard Tree Giveaway program.
In Fall 2017 we gave 10 grants to community groups across the city. Grants consisted of 50 or 100 trees, mulch, educational materials, and $500. Our community partners this season helped us give away 600 trees in Fall 2017!
The following groups hosted their own yard tree giveaways through our Community Yard Tree Giveaway Grant.
In Spring 2017 we gave away 2 grants to community groups all over the city. Grants consisted of 50 or 100 trees, mulch, educational materials, and $500. Our community partners this season helped us give away 150 trees in Spring 2017!
The following community organizations hosted their own yard tree giveaways through our Community Yard Tree Giveaway Grant.
In Fall 2016 we gave away 5 grants to community groups all over the city. Our community partners this season helped us give away 400 trees in Fall 2016!
In Spring 2016 we gave away 5 grants to community groups all over the city. Grants included 50 or 100 trees, mulch, educational materials, and $500. Our community partners this season helped us give away 400 trees in Spring 2016!
In Fall 2015 we gave away 7 grants to community groups all over the city. Because of these fantastic partners, we gave away 550 trees through this program in Fall 2015! Councilman Bobby Henon, UPS, Keep America Beautiful and Keep Philadelphia Beautiful provided additional funds to support this season of giveaways.
In Spring 2015 we grew our grant program and gave away 8 grants to community groups all over the city. Grants consisted of 50 or 100 trees, mulch, educational materials, and $500. Because of these fantastic partners, we gave away 575 trees through this program in Spring 2015!
In Fall 2014, we provided five Community Yard Tree Giveaway Grants worth 50 trees and $500 to the organizations below. Thanks to their amazing efforts, we exceeded our goal of distributing 250 trees through Community Giveaways, giving out a total of 285!
