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Portland Fruit Tree Project

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Portland Fruit Tree project is a grass-roots non-profit organization that provides a community-based solution to a critical and growing need in Portland and beyond: Access to healthy food. By empowering neighbors to share in the harvest and care of urban fruit trees, we are preventing waste, building community knowledge and resources, and creating sustainable, cost-free ways to obtain healthy, locally-grown food.Because money doesn’t grow on trees… but fruit does!

"We organize people to gather fruit before it falls, and make it available to those who need it most. We register fruit and nut trees throughout the city, bring people together to harvest and distribute thousands of pounds of fresh fruit each year, and teach tree care and food preservation in hands-on workshops."


Portland Fruit Tree Project & Founder/Director Katy Kolker featured as 'Everyday Heroes' on KATU news:



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2011 Give!Guide

Portland Fruit Tree Project has been chosen to participate in Willamette Week’s 2011 Give!Guide. The Give!Guide provides an opportunity for you to support some of Portland's best nonprofit organizations, and get great incentives and prizes in return! It's a fabulous way to support the unique and valuable work of the Portland Fruit Tree Project.

The Give!Guide goes live November 8th and donations are accepted through midnight on December 31st. Check it out! wweek.com/giveguide.

As a special bonus to PFTP supporters, if you give to Portland Fruit Tree Project in the Give!Guide between now and Thanksgiving (Nov 24) you will be entered in a drawing to win a 2-night stay for up to 10 people at a beautiful beach house in Manzanita! Give today!

Give!GuideLogoYour gift will help Portland Fruit Tree Project provide fresh fruit to over 5,000 families in need through our Harvesting Programs, and prevent 45,000 pounds of valuable fruit from going to waste in the coming year. Your support will enable PFTP to provide hands-on opportunities for hundreds of people to learn tree care and food preservation skills, leading to greater self-sufficiency. Your gift will help us grow our new Community Orchards program, cultivating fruit trees on public lands and providing food and education to the community. Your support will help us provide a year-long skills training for 42 Tree Care Team members and improve the health and productivity of 130 fruit trees through our Tree Stewardship Program. And your gift will help us bring over 1,000 diverse participants together in meaningful activities in their communities. Give today!

Capital Pacific Bank will match the first $1000 donated to Portland Fruit Tree Project, dollar for dollar! Please take this opportunity to help our award-winning, grassroots programs continue to thrive and grow in 2012 and beyond...

Here’s what you can do:

  • Give to Portland Fruit Tree Project through the Give!Guide today! Click here.

  • Make sure everyone you know — friends, relatives, business acquaintances — hears about this great opportunity to support our cause and earn valuable and fun incentives in the process. Forward this message along, post a link to facebook, and multiply your impact!

  • Give a donation in someone's name -- a great holiday gift! After you complete your donation on the GiveGuide site, send an email to katy@portlandfruit.org with the name and address of the person you would like to honor with the gift. We'll send them a hand-written card notifying them of the gift you made in their name.

Thank you for joining the Portland Fruit Tree Project in preventing waste, building sustainable communities, and making fresh fruit available to those who need it most. Your support is much-needed, and greatly appreciated!

Many thanks to our 2011 Give!Guide Business Sponsor:

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