Celebrate Tu Bishvat

Choose the way you participate:

TU BISHVAT IN THE SCHOOLS PROGRAM (for schools of all types):

JNF has planted over 260 million trees in Israel. While this is an impressive achievement, there is always a need for more, due to natural forest regrowth, forest fires, and arson. We encourage every student to help continue to build up Israel by purchasing one or more trees. This year we are pleased to make ordering and planting your trees in Israel very simple. We have created an online tree ordering platform. In January, you will receive an email with your school’s predesigned page. You can then share the link with your students, families and faculty to make their purchases. Tree certificates will be fulfilled immediately and should be received in homes within two weeks. You will be able to keep track, in real time, how many trees your school has sold, by looking at your page’s thermometer. If you have not received your link by mid-January, please email [email protected] and let us know, or you may search for your school’s link here.

If you are choosing to use the paper tree form, as you did in the past, one tree form, personalized with your school’s VIS number, was included in each box. Feel free to make as many copies of the form as you need and distribute to your students and their families. If you use this method, tree orders should be brought home, forms completed, and returned to the school with payment as soon as possible.

Send all orders in one large envelope, to:

JNF Tu BiShvat in the Schools Program

78 Randall Avenue

Rockville Centre, NY 11570

Please mail all tree orders to JNF by Friday, February 28, 2020 so you may receive your tree certificates in a timely manner. Paper tree forms take 3-4 weeks to process.

*All orders must be received by the Friday, February 28, 2020 deadline and winners will be announced by April 1, 2020.

JNF RECOGNIZES STUDENTS AND SCHOOLS FOR PROGRAM PARTICIPATION:

Schools that plant 100 trees or more ($1800+) will receive special recognition listing at American Independence Park in Jerusalem. A certificate will also be sent to the school.

This year, each school that participates in our annual tree sales competition will be entered for a chance to win two round-trip tickets to Israel. In addition, based on your school’s volume of tree sales, you can earn cash prizes for your school. The more trees you plant, the bigger the prize money.

Prize levels are based on collective tree purchases for the whole school. Online tree sales and tree forms must be postmarked by Friday, February 28, 2020 to be included in our raffle and to win some great cash prizes!

PRIZE LEVELS:

Level 1*: Every school that plants 50 trees or more will receive $180.

Level 2*: Every school that plants 100 trees or more will receive $360.

Level 3*: Every school that plants 200 trees or more will receive $720.

*Please note that prizes are not cumulative.

Nationwide Student Tree Sale Contest: Encourage your students to promote your school’s tree sale campaign and they can win prizes. All they have to do is share your school’s link with their family and friends. When checking out, the buyer should put the students name in the Student Referral box on the checkout page and they will get credit for that sale. Prizes for the students are:

1st place nationwide: iPad Air and a $500 scholarship to Alexander Muss High School in Israel

2nd place nationwide: iPad Mini and a $250 scholarship to Alexander Muss High School in Israel

3rd place nationwide: AirPods and a $100 scholarship to Alexander Muss High School in Israel

**Must have a minimum of 36 trees credited to you.

Download the Student Tree Sale Contest flier.

2020 Tu BiShvat program:

Over 400 schools have received our Tu BiShvat program materials in the mail. If you need additional copies, or if you didn’t receive them via mail, you may download the materials here:

Supplemental materials to Tu BiShvat in the Schools program

As noted in the Facilitators Guide, below you will find additional materials including photographs, articles, and videos to use in the classroom with the program or to help clarify or show examples of the materials.

Article on connection between Ben-Gurion and Tu BiShvat

Photographs

Yatir Forest