Plant Trees to Help Communities Flourish

Help plant 1 million trees in neighborhoods that need them most

Thank you for helping bring more trees to American communities this Arbor Day. Your gift of any amount helps plant trees across the country, creating cooler streets, cleaner air, and healthier places to live.

We work with local partners to plant trees where they can make the biggest difference – especially in neighborhoods facing extreme heat and limited tree canopy.

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From cooling neighborhoods in extreme heat to helping communities recover and rebuild, your support makes local tree planting possible where it’s needed most.

Two volunteers in blue shirts standing behind a newly planted tree on a sunny residential street.

Relief from extreme heat in Phoenix, AZ

Bringing shade to one of the city’s hottest neighborhoods

In Phoenix’s neighborhoods, summers get hot. Really hot. Surrounded by fairgrounds and major highways that radiate heat, support from people like you brings the cooling power of trees to neighbors in Villa Verde through community-driven planting projects.

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^{Hop Mulgas planted near Clarendon Elementary School}

Person wearing an Arbor Day Foundation shirt kneels by a planted sapling, holding up a peace sign in a sunny wooded area.

Rebuilding community after fires in Los Angeles, CA

Bringing people together to heal the scars of wildfires

After wildfires tore through Los Angeles County, students, families, and educators at Mary W. Jackson STEAM Multilingual Magnet came together to plant trees on their campus - supporting renewal, healing, and hope for the community.

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^{Community-led Toyon planting in community parks}

There are so many ways to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees this Arbor Day. With shovels, support, or on behalf of someone, choose how you’ll care for the Earth and expand what’s possible. Think you can’t change the future? Think again.

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Get your hands dirty

We want everyone to be a tree planter. One way we do that is by providing access to affordable trees suited for your region. Shop our nursery to find trees right for your corner of the world.

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Plant where we need trees now

Empower planting projects in forests and neighborhoods around the globe. Our vast network of planting partners gets trees where they can do the most good, so you can plant from wherever you are.

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Change the world for someone who changed yours

Go further for someone you love by giving the gift of a tree planted in their name in a recovering forest.

Trees in Celebration

Trees in Memory

An older man and child planting a small tree together outdoors in a sunny green garden.

Your voice matters

Take our 2026 tree survey and get planting with 10 free trees shipped right to your home – your gift when you donate to support our mission.

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About the Arbor Day Foundation

For more than 50 years and over 500 million trees, we’ve been planting at the speed of a changing world. We rely on a global network of planting partners, local partnerships and our members to champion the role that trees play in strengthening communities and improving lives.

No matter who you are, there’s a place for you in this community that’s shaping the future through trees.