THE GARDEN CRUISE
Detroit Garden Works is proud to present The Garden Cruise on Sunday, July 27, 2008 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Garden Cruise is a tour of gardens designed, planted and inspired by Deborah Silver. All proceeds from this unique tour will benefit the planting and educational programs of The Greening of Detroit. Tickets are $35 for tour or $50 for tour and cocktail reception that will be held immediately following at 5:00 p.m.at the Detroit Garden Works located at 1794 Pontiac Drive, Sylvan Lake MI 48320 where patrons can meet Deborah Silver and staff from The Greening of Detroit. For more information visit www.thegardencruise.org or call Monica Tabares at (313)237-8733 ext 227.
WE’RE LOOKING FOR A FEW BELIEVERS…
The Greening is expanding its full-time staff. We’re looking for professionals who have experience in workforce development, community organizing/project management, urban forestry, and nursery management. Email rebecca@greeningofdetroit.com if you think you have the passion and vision to join our team.
KRESGE FOUNDATION SUPPORTS GREENING EXPANSION PLANS
We’re proud to announce that the Kresge Foundation approved a three year $600,000 capacity building grant which will enable The Greening of Detroit to expand it’s staff to manage several multi-year neighborhood based revitalization projects. “We’ll look back at this grant someday and recognize that it helped us move to a new level in providing services. “ says President, Rebecca Salminen Witt, “now we’re just looking forward to getting to work!”
ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY TREES SPOTLIGHTS DETROIT FOR IT’S 2007 NEIGHBORWOODS MONTH
October is National Neighborwoods Month and Alliance for Community Trees, the national community forestry organization that organizes the event each year, has chosen Detroit as one of its focus cities this year. ACT highlighted The Greening of Detroit’s October 20 planting in Detroit’s Sherwood Forest Neighborhood, supported by the city of Detroit as part of it’s Next Detroit Neighborhood Initiative. The Neighborwoods Program is funded by The Home Depot Foundation which hopes to make tree planting an activity that is embraced by every city.
TREE BANK INVESTING IN URBAN FOREST
The Greening of Detroit is a proud member of TreeBank TreeBink exists to promote urban and community forestry throughout the world by providing Internet-based information, tools and inspiration to individuals and organizations involved in urban forestry efforts.
https://www.itreebank.org/itreebankdonate.php?org=greeningofdetroit