helping VILLAGES IN Need
Supporting the planting, monitoring, and long-term maintenance of trees, including parks, school grounds, and in vacant lots and food forests.
Supporting climate-adapted tree plantings and related vegetation, nursery production, wood utilization, and strategies that increase community resilience to droughts, floods, storms, insects, diseases, and other natural disasters.
Community forestry to empower communities, especially those experiencing inequitable environmental and social burdens, to participate in decision-making that improves conditions locally.
Creating and sustaining living-wage jobs in green industries and provide new career pathways into community forestry and arboriculture for youth and adults entering this workforce.
AVI estimates awarding 32 subawards over five years two categories:
Category 1 proposals are limited to pre-project activities (e.g., planning, permits, and other activities needed to advance to a Category 2 proposal) necessary for a specific future hands-on project that meets
the program criteria.
Category 2 proposals are hands-on implementation projects.
The following table is an estimate of expected applications per project
and the number of subawards over a four-year period.
Project Partners
This material is based upon work supported by the USDA Forest Service
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