H-E-B offers grants to nonprofits to help plant trees

During Earth Month, H-E-B is ramping up its efforts to plant more trees across Texas. Through its Trees for Texans program, the retailer is making available to nonprofits $5,000 grants for tree-planting projects to help create healthier environments for schools, parks, and communities.

Through the Trees for Texans Community Grant program, H-E-B, in partnership with Texan by Nature, is looking to support non-profits, municipalities, and civic organizations interested in planting native trees in publicly accessible areas to help increase tree canopy, enhance greenspace, cool off urban areas and beautify public spaces in the state. Eligible nonprofits must apply by the May 30th deadline at ourtexasourfuture.com/trees-for-texans. Grant recipients will be notified in July.

Launched Fall of 2023, the Trees for Texans program also supports tree-planting efforts at public schools and throughout Texas forests. 

Additionally, customers can join in the effort to help plant native trees across Texas and donate April 9-May 6 at H-E-B registers in store and online.

At the entrance of every H-E-B store, customers can access collection bins for plastic bags and other eligible plastic items, such as other retail shopping bags, produce bags, bread bags, dry cleaning bags, newspaper bags, and plastic overwrap for items like paper towels. 

H-E-B also provides several best practices for recycling on its Our Texas, Our Future website.

To bolster recycling across Texas, H-E-B, in partnership with Keep Texas Beautiful through its Keep Texas Recycling program, has supported projects that focus on increasing access to recycling in rural and underserved communities by funding infrastructure improvements and educational recycling resources. Rural towns such as Floresville and Ingleside, among others, have received grants to open the first-ever recycling center in those communities. Since 2021, H-E-B has given out more than $600,000 in grants to 11 communities, providing recycling improvements for 612,000 residents.

Since 2012, H-E-B has given more than $20 million to over 500 environmental organizations involved in land and water conservation, habitat and coastal preservation, and community cleanups.

SOURCE H-E-B