Urban forestry coaching
Expert advice to enhance your tree planting and urban forestry activities
TREES
Are you applying for Tree planting funding or Urban forestry plans and studies funding through GMF’s Growing Canada’s Community Canopies initiative? You are eligible for free urban forestry coaching through our partnership with Tree Canada. Our coaches are urban forestry professionals located across Canada who specialize in urban forest management within communities.
From ideation to planning and implementation, an Urban forestry coach will ensure your project is as successful as possible while bringing maximum benefits to your community.
What can coaches help with?
Urban forestry coaches provide free technical support to communities of all sizes at key project phases, including ideation, application submission and project implementation. The support a coach provides will be tailored to fit the funding you are applying to, your project type and your needs.
Coaches can help:
- answer specific questions related to your project or application
- assess local needs and capacity to help you select which type of eligible project will have the most impact in your community
- develop your project goals
- ensure your project is informed by best practices in urban forestry planning or tree planting
- integrate tree equity in your project
- prepare the right questions and determine your requirements for hiring a consultant
- clearly communicate your urban forestry requirements with council and residents
- develop strategies based on current and future climate conditions
- design tree preservation, protection and maintenance practices and policies
create urban forest management plans, bylaws, regulations and strategies
Get started today
Whether you’re just starting to dream up your project or already deep in implementation, connecting with an urban forestry coach can make all the difference. The earlier you connect with a coach, the stronger your project will be.
Talk to our Outreach team to learn about our funding, share your project idea and get matched with a coach.
You will be matched with a coach by Tree Canada based on factors like location, language, project type and availability. Once matched, the coach will book a discovery call to get to know your project idea and determine next steps.
Why communities of all sizes benefit from urban forestry coaching
In this article, you’ll discover common urban forestry challenges communities face, like industry expertise and community buy-in. You’ll also learn how coaches approach their first meetings with funding applicants and how they work with communities that do have in-house urban forestry experts and those that don’t.
Read more on how our network of coaches can help build a successful project.
Have questions?
Contact a GMF representative to schedule an appointment.
The Green Municipal Fund's Growing Canada’s Community Canopies is a $291 million initiative, ending in 2031, funded by the Government of Canada and delivered by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. Capacity building is enabled through a partnership with Tree Canada. GCCC will support the planting of at least 1.2M trees across Canada by end of March 2031.