Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership Accepting Nominations For Mira Lloyd Dock Partnership Diversity Award

The Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership is now accepting nominations for the Mira Lloyd Dock Partnership Diversity Award. The deadline for nominations is September 3.

The Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership, in collaboration with the PA Forestry Association, provides an important opportunity to retell the Mira Lloyd Dock story, calling on Pennsylvanians to respond to leadership in its own history and continue this important work of forest conservation and urban beautification.

This award will recognize a diverse conservationist within the Keystone 10 Million Tree Partnership with the context of local history, courage, leadership, and purpose.

The award criteria include--

-- Nominations shall be made in the form of a letter, not more than two typed pages long, with content based on the following criteria:

-- Open to any person in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that has engaged in conservation work (tree plantings, rain garden installation or planting, regenerative agriculture practices or urban farming/permaculture, community beautification, etc.) in a diverse, inequitable, and under-represented community.

-- Engagement with others/building collaborative relationships between diverse, equitable, and under-represented communities and partner organizations.

-- Commitment to using science-based and/or creative and innovative approaches to conservation.

-- If self-nominating: How the $5,000 would be used towards a tree planting project in a diverse, equitable, and under-represented community.

-- The Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership proposes to offer a $5,000 worth of trees, tree shelters, and tree stakes towards a tree planting project incentive to each recipient of the Mira Lloyd Dock award from the partnership and the Pennsylvania Forestry Association.

The partnership award recipient should use these trees and supplies in a project in a diverse, equitable, and under-represented community. If the awardee cannot accept this project on their behalf, they may name a project to which the grant should be applied. 

To submit a nomination or for more information, visit the Mira Lloyd Dock Partnership Diversity Award webpage.

Visit the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership to learn how you can help clean water grow on trees.

 

(Reprinted from the latest PA Forestry Association newsletter.)

[Posted: July 12, 2021]  PA Environment Digest