Tree Ambassador
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Our Tree Ambassador program empowers neighborhood Tree Ambassadors to help plant, mulch, water, prune, and care for young trees to ensure their long-term success. They serve as neighborhood champions for urban forestry, helping educate residents, connect residents to resources, and supporting community outreach events.
Growing Knoxville's Canopy, Together!
What is a Tree Ambassador?
A Tree Ambassador is an outreach leader who is a liaison between Trees Knoxville and their neighborhood! Since you know your neighborhood best, we are hoping to work with you by having you facilitate outreach efforts to get the word out about our free trees!
Our Goal
We are hoping to work with neighborhoods in Knoxville to increase canopy cover on private property.
In addition, we would like to educate our community members on the importance of trees and how much they do for our communities. With that comes training on how to properly plant and maintain a tree so that it can live a long, healthy life, and we can enjoy its benefits to the fullest!
This project would involve encouraging your neighbors to sign up for a free tree to plant in their yard! It would be the homeowner’s responsibility to plant the tree, but we can provide volunteers who are unable to physically plant a tree but would like one in their yard.
Responsibilities
Becoming a Tree Ambassador will involve a few hours each week until the distribution date of your neighborhood! Please keep your schedule in mind!
Additional Responsibilities:
- Attend 2 training sessions led by a Trees Knoxville staff member. These trainings would be no more than 90 minutes long.
- Leading local outreach for tree sign-ups. This could include distributing flyers, messaging in the neighborhood social media groups, emailing & calling, going door-to-door to talk with neighbors, etc.
- Answering your neighbors’ questions or redirecting them to a Trees Knoxville staff member.
- Being a point of contact and distributing education material so your neighbors know how to take care of their trees themselves.
How Trees Knoxville Supports Our Ambassadors
- We will create all fliers and outreach materials (with your feedback) for you to distribute
- Order all trees (completely free to you!) and track all of the tree orders
- Organize the distribution event
- Provide volunteers to help those who would like assistance with planting
- Provide the web sign-up for those who want to reserve a tree
- Assist your neighbors with any order inquiries and continue communication after the order period has ended
Become a Tree Ambassador
Help your community by being a connector between Trees Knoxville and your neighbors!
Are you ready to be a liaison between your community and Trees Knoxville to get more trees in your neighborhood? Your role will be to help us distribute outreach materials and spread the word about our free trees!