Tag: engagement


Community Engagement: Tips and Strategies

For those who work or volunteer in the nonprofit world, engaging the local community is always on hearts, minds, and spreadsheets. Within nature and health organizations, such as Trees Forever, success comes from connecting community volunteers, civic leaders, government officials and landowners through on-the-ground projects like a tree planting event. Other organizations, such as the…

Learning From Partner Organizations

Each month in our Nature Sacred blog we share insight from leaders in our communities who are advancing what it means to have sacred, open green spaces in our cities. This month we spoke with Trees Forever Founding President Shannon Ramsay about urban forestry engagement possibilities in Iowa and across the United States. For 25…

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