Saturday May 30, 2026 | 5-8pm
Eastside Community Center
We want everyone to live on safe, beautiful tree-lined streets. Making this happen takes all of us reaching out, collaborating, planting, learning, and advocating.
Join us for our second annual fundraiser and help us grow
Trees
Upgrade our watering equipment to water trees in streets and parks more efficiently.
Implement more tree-planting projects in public spaces like parks, where people benefit from walking, playing, and gathering under their shade.
Awareness
Hire a part-time summer staffer who can focus on policy and help us grow our advocacy program. Our community wants to see us grow in this direction, and we’re ready to do so!
Capacity
Support our hardworking staff with professional development opportunities.
Create a welcoming and functional office for the communities we serve at our new Community Hub office at the Tacoma Public Library by painting, purchasing much-needed furniture, and upgrading lighting and technology.
Purchase your tickets, sponsor a table, or make a donation today!
Event Details:
Date: Saturday, May 30, 2026
Time: 5:00-800pm
Venue: Eastside Community Center, 1721 E 56th St, Tacoma
Program:
SPEAKER - Warren King George, Muckleshoot Oral Historian
Jazz Under the Firs
Silent Auction
Food
WARREN KING GEORGE
Warren King George is the Tribal Historian for the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe - Preservation Program. For the past 32 years, Warren has collected and recorded oral history from Tribal and Community Members about hunting, fishing, and clamming in the Puget Sound and berry-picking in the Cascade Mountains. He works with a variety of Government agencies to ensure continued Treaty Rights access and to create management plans to maintain and enhance valuable cultural resources, as well as with public and private institutions to share the history, traditions, and culture of what is known today as the Muckleshoot People.
The “Tacoma” in our name means everyone: Eastside, Hilltop, South End, South Tacoma, West End, North End, Northeast, Parkland, Midland, Fife.
Wherever a tree grows, so do habitat, public health, safety, beauty, and a sense of community.
But not everyone has equal access to these benefits. Across Pierce County, where we live determines whether or not we’re in the company of trees and other plants. In their absence, asthma, heat stroke, and heart disease rates grow, as does exposure to the threats of speeding cars and flooding.
Since 2018, Tacoma Tree Foundation has been reaching out to neighbors, volunteers, partners, and donors so trees can take root in every neighborhood.
We’ve learned that great things happen when we reach out:
We’ve grown creative partnerships with individuals, our local tribes, organizations, and institutions working on urban forestry, public health, environmental education, and the arts.
We’ve shared 16,000 trees, prioritizing underserved communities with the help of 373 volunteers.
We’ve trained nearly 100 Tree Stewards and Tree Captains who are helping their neighbors plant and care for trees; and 74 Climate Leaders who are supporting their frontline communities with climate solutions.
Together, we’ve contributed to the first increase in tree canopy coverage in Tacoma’s history!
Tacoma needs trees. We have the lowest tree canopy coverage of any city in Western Washington. Our trees are concentrated in parks, steep slopes, and neighborhoods with higher socioeconomic opportunities. These parts of the city benefit from more than double the tree coverage compared to other areas. But even in these neighborhoods, tree benefits are not optimal since a healthy urban forest throughout Tacoma is necessary to sustain everyone. We’re working to grow an urban forest for all.
Why Trees?
We are a seven-year-old organization, and we need your support so that we can take root and continue supporting neighborhoods in Greater Tacoma and the Puget Sound region through our community focused education, planting, and advocacy efforts.
Who is TTF?
In 2025, we served a total of 475 households and distributed 4374 trees across the region.
Our planting efforts are rooted in a robust education program that includes tree walks, tree care, science and arts workshops and presentations, a youth program, and we offer an average of 70 free events a year, including the Tacoma-Pierce County Climate Leadership Cohort.
Through our advocacy efforts we inform the public about tree protections and contribute to growing a region where communities do not have to choose between the benefits of trees and affordable housing.
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