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3. NeighborWoods Month Accomplishments

4. Sponsors NeighborWoods Month Community Benefits

5. Sponsors NeighborWoods Month Support

6. Sponsors Other resources: Planning Kit Mini-Grant Tshirt Grant Media Outreach Focus Event Photo Contest Facebook/MS Awards

7. Sponsors Thanks to our national sponsors: The Home Depot Foundation USDA Forest Service Start thinking about NeighborWoods Month 2008!

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10. Delaware Center for Horticulture (Wilmington, DE) DCH invited local development companies, community development organizations, and Wilmington Mayor James M. Baker to come together for roundtable discussions about community trees. The event rallied the support of various influential stakeholders by discussing the benefits of trees and demonstrating how to join many others who already incorporate trees into construction and redevelopment plans. NeighborWoods Roundtable 12:00pm- Lunch 1:00pm- Press Conference 1:30pm- Roundtable Discussions 3:00pm- Statement of Support

11. Sponsors The Greening of Detroit (Detroit, MI) The Next Detroit Neighborhood Initiative (NDNI) refers to the Detroit after the transformation of City government. It is the Detroit of the future. NDNI is a five-year strategy designed to improve the quality of life in six neighborhoods- East English Village, Osborn, North End, Brightmoor, 7 Mile-Livernois, and Grand River-Greenfield- by coordinating city services around the neighborhood work plans and leveraging private investment in the targeted communities. To handle the green infrastructure component of NDNI, Mayor Kilpatrick called upon The Greening of Detroit. NeighborWoods Planting 8:00am- Television interviews 8:30am- Sign-in volunteers 9:00am- Demonstration Planting 9:10am- Let volunteers loose till 11am- Plant