Empower New Jersey communities to build a better world for future generations with the tools, training, and financial incentives necessary to pursue critical sustainability initiatives.
The Trees for Schools program aims to grant $2.5 million to New Jersey public school districts, colleges, and universities for planting and maintaining trees on their grounds. This initiative symbolizes and realizes sustainability and renewal by offering practical benefits such as combating climate change through carbon storage, mitigating temperature and rain effects, providing shade, habitat, beauty, educational opportunities, filtering pollutants, reducing stormwater runoff, and lowering energy costs and emissions in buildings. Enhancing environmental conditions, stimulating local economies, boosting property values, and improving life quality for the educational community and beyond are also key goals. Funding is provided by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, using proceeds from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and the program is administered by the Sustainability Institute at The College of New Jersey. Grant proposals must range from $10,000 to $250,000, with an option for a supplemental grant up to an additional $250,000, totaling a potential maximum of $500,000 funding.
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