Give Back to Tennessee Trees This Giving Tuesday
This Giving Tuesday, the Nashville Tree Conservation Corps’ board is matching all donations received on December 2, 2025, up to $25,000 in order to make every dollar received go even further! In this post, we’ll share how your donations fund our mission and drive real community impacts throughout Nashville's urban canopy. Then, we’ll go over some changes to donation tax benefits in 2026 that may affect certain donors.
What Is Giving Tuesday?
Since 2012, Giving Tuesday (the Tuesday after Thanksgiving) has created an opportunity to focus on supporting charities that do important on-the-ground work in communities. These gap-filling groups are usually funded in large part by private contributions, and NTCC is no exception.
Your Contributions Help Us Do Our Work for Nashville
Private giving to community-based organizations is essential to their operations, and when governments reduce funding or benefits to charitable groups, private support and enthusiasm for a given cause make even bigger impacts on the ability of charities to continue to provide their services.
Environmental causes already receive the lowest portion of donated funds (only 3% of all US charitable donations in 2024). We work diligently within this situation to be certain that every dollar we receive is used to its highest potential.
The Nashville Tree Conservation Corps strives to bring the tree canopy ecosystem front and center in conversations about Nashville's prosperity. We do this through our mission to promote, preserve, protect, and plant Nashville’s canopy, in particular by:
Actively supporting canopy-conscious policy development in Nashville.
Distributing trees to residents through our tree sale.
Planting trees and maintaining them through volunteer activities.
Working closely with Nashville residents and groups on managing real canopy conditions.
Think of NTCC This Giving Tuesday
This Giving Tuesday, consider the Nashville Tree Conservation Corps as a recipient of your charitable donations.
Your generous gift will fund new trees and protect the existing canopy. More specifically:
$25 can water a new tree.
$100 can fund consulting with a neighborhood group on saving trees during nearby development.
$250 can fund a tree and professional planting.
$1,000 can care for 10 mature trees in summer.
$1,800 can fund a year of work toward a new tree bill (protect Nashville's canopy for $150/month!).
Changes to Donation Tax Benefits in 2026
In 2026, new changes to tax deductibles will take effect. If you're charitably inclined, 2025 is a strategically important year: certain donors may want to increase their giving now, before less favorable rules take effect.
In July 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) was signed into law, preserving some generous deduction rules while also introducing new provisions (to take effect in 2026) that may impact charitable giving, including a 35% cap on deductions for high earners and a 0.5% floor for certain donors.
Because these limitations will take effect in the new year, it could make sense for some donors to make large charitable donations in 2025 while the old, more favorable rules still apply. Check with a certified tax professional if you have any uncertainties about how these changes may affect your financial management decisions.
Donate to Nashville trees here! All gifts are tax-deductible (but remember our earlier point about the changes coming in 2026).
Knowledge and skills are also valuable contributions to our cause, and we’re strongest when we have a collaborative network to achieve our shared goals. Reach out to us if you think there is an opportunity to cooperate!
This holiday season, gift a tree to someone close with a gift card for NTCC’s tree sale (winter is the best time to plant a new tree!), and sign up to volunteer with us in the new year.
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