The Chesapeake Bay Trust will hold an information session about the Urban Trees Grant Program where we will provide an overview of the program, the application process, and answer questions. This grant program is a partnership between the Chesapeake Bay Trust and 5 Million Trees for Maryland.
The virtual Information Session will be held on Tuesday 1/23 from 6pm to 7:00pm on Zoom. Register at
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwscO2przwrE9JqIu-juajwJD8kCkUlu4ky#/registration
The goal of the Urban Trees Grant Program is to green communities; enhance quality of life, human health, and community livability by improving air quality, and reducing urban heat island effect; and to mitigate some of the effects of climate change. Tree plantings must occur in urban, underserved areas.
Requests will generally be at the following scales:
- Up to $15,000 for projects serving a single small neighborhood (on the order of 25 to 100 trees)
- Up to $45,000 for projects serving multiple neighborhoods within a community (on the order of 75 to 300 trees)
- Up to $200,000 for projects serving multiple communities (on the order of 300 to 1,000 trees)
- Up to $1,000,000 for projects serving communities across an entire county-scale (on the order of 2,000 to 6,000 trees)
Application Deadline: March 7, 2024, at 4pm ET.
Learn more and view the Request for Proposals at: https://cbtrust.org/grants/urban-trees/
For questions and technical assistance, contact: Lianna Gomori-Ruben at lgomori-ruben@cbtrust.org or 410-974-2941 ext. 112.
