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Thank You!

You Plant Investment and Hope

November 10, 2008

To Partners and Friends of Great River Greening:

Last month we returned to the Xcel High Bridge Plant for another event, and I was reminded of the thousands of trees that you, our Great River Greening volunteers and supporters, helped to plant over ten years ago. A forest now stands where once 1000 neighbors worked together to improve our community. Three words—hope, investment, and confidence—seem to capture the working principles behind Great River Greening’s work which has continued and grown beyond all expectations.

Great River Greening is hope: To date, over twenty thousand volunteers have joined us to restore disturbed and degraded land to a semblance of its original graceful existence.

Greening is confidence: Just as we successfully completed our first Saint Paul project (35,000 trees and shrubs), we are achieving all the goals of our Million Acorn Campaign: 100 oak projects across the region, planting thousands more native trees and shrubs.

Greening is investment: The best way to create lasting change is to educate and involve people throughout the community. And that includes our children: 54% of our volunteers are youth that want to learn how to be conservation leaders.

This month, as Great River Greening’s staff and volunteers plant the last trees and shrubs before the winter and clean our equipment for next spring, we also take pause to thank our supporters, volunteers, and partners. You are truly the social capital that is the basis of our investment for the future. Thank you!!