WHO COULD BE A VOLUNTEER?
Just about everybody: people with agro-forestry or international development experience, school teachers, Boy/Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts and Brownies, 4-H and FFA clubs, environmental clubs, people with grant-proposal writing skills, people concerned about the destruction of the world's forests and other natural resources, people concerned about global warming, retired business executives, people experienced in non-profit organization management, gardeners and soil scientists, experts on water systems, marine biologists, retired people to write letters, in other words:
People who want to take an active part in making this program grow!
WHAT DO WE NEED?: WAYS TO HELP
Ideas and Technology: Appropriate technology for poor people with few resources, small-scale livestock and poultry production, how to grow food organically, energy-saving ideas and alternate energy usage, health and nutrition, traditional medicines and other things needed by people in developing countries. We need to develop a better library and send these ideas to people who really need them.
Books: About Global Climate Change, Agro-Forestry. Sustainable Farming, Forestry Management, Soil Conservation, also books for children that we can give to local schools - teachers and the local organizations we serve always ask for them.
Public Awareness: Meet People. Hold community meetings and discussion groups, telling people why tree planting and the sustainable management of our natural resources are so important. Tell people why global warming is such a serious threat and what we can do to save the global climate - we'll send you materials to use.
Funding: Your program keeps growing and that means the trees are helping people, but our budget is always stretched, limiting our ability to provide people with tree seeds, training materials, and on-site technical support - then getting all of this to the hundreds of communities working to save their homes and lands. We have now helped people plant more than 38 million trees - each year your trees remove more than a million tons of carbon dioxide from the global atmosphere. We're now able to plant these permanent, beneficial trees for less than ten cents each! Your annual dues plants more than one tree every day for a year!
> Please support us as much as you can.
> Tell friends, neighbors, civic groups about TREES. Get them to join. > Knock on doors
> Get local businesses to join - when they show they are also concerned about the environment, that brings them new customers.
> Get on the web - tell people about our new website. (We'll send you a bumper sticker).
We also need a lot of help from volunteers in spreading our message through local media.
Proposal-Writing: There are many thousands of foundations and socially concerned businesses that want to know about our work and support these projects with grants. We can always use proposal-writers. Even more important, we need volunteers to tell us who we can send them to.
Volunteers to Rebuild TREE PALS:
Our Tree Pals program began in 1996. That first year more than 3,800 school children across America raised funds and build a program with over 2,200 schools in developing countries through which 910,000 trees were planted. (who says "kids can't do anything"?)
Moreover, by its very success - and the fact all this was being done by young people, it made the leaders of these communities get busy and do their part also and that made the total of trees planed nearly double!
Now we want to bring it back, add some new ideas to make it work even better and for that to happen, we need your help. We want to:
> Make elementary schools aware of the program
> Provide them several types of tree seeds to plant as a science project
> Grow these seedlings over the winter and sell them in the spring at sidewalk/mall sales (generating income, both for TREE PALS and for school projects)
> Helping students write letters to their new friends in developing countries
We also offer attractive income earning opportunities for those
interested in canvassing for memberships.
If you are interested, Contact Us
today!
Eco-Tourism: People have been asking us about organizing "eco-tours" to many places where we work, if enough people are interested. If you have such a group, please let us know and we'll develop the idea together.
