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TREE TRUST AND MEMORIAL BENCH FUND


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The Friends of Westchester County Parks is offering a unique opportunity for you to honor or memorialize a special person by making a contribution in their name to the Friends of Parks Tree Trust and Memorial Bench Fund.

By making a donation to the fund, you are not only supporting the Friends, but you are taking an active role in preserving and protecting Westchester's forests, parks and trails,*enhancing public gardens and providing horticultural programs that are offered in county parks.

Donations to this fund are specifically ear-marked for the purchase and maintenance of trees and benches in all county parklands. The fund also provides a perpetual endowment for the benefit of the county's forestry program.

Contributors choose where their dollars go by selecting one or more gift categories. Plus, your contribution automatically enrolls you as a Friend or Westchester County Parks.


Maintenance Endowment Fund click here for an online donation form.

A donation of $25 or more will be placed in a fund established solely for the maintenance of our trees and forests. Your donation will help pay for fertilization, pruning. equipment and training.


Adopt-A-Tree click here for an online donation form.

A donation of $500 will allow you to select a tree with a commemorative plaque± that will be dedicated to someone special to you.

 

 


Memorial Tree ±    click here for an online donation form.

For a donation of $1000, a tree will be planted in a park of your choice with a memorial plaque± placed alongside.


 

Memorial Benches±± click here for an online donation form.

For $1500, a park bench with a plaque
±± commemorating a loved one, will be placed in the park of your choice.

 


Donations of any of the categories above make unique gifts for birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, religious occasions or memorials. We will send the recipient a certificate signifying the type of gift, along with an explanation of how the gift will be put to use.

± Plaques for trees are 3" x 8" bronze, 15-word maximum
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Plaques for benches are 1.5" x 7" bronze, 15 word maximum

Contribute Now to the Tree Trust and Memorial Bench Fund
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What you need to know
To maintain the natural beauty of our parks, no adornments or decorations are permitted on or around the trees and benches.

All trees and benches remain the exclusive property of the Westchester County Parks.

 


 

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Friends of Westchester County Parks
25 Moore Avenue
Mount Kisco, NY 10549-9905
914-864-7048

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