Congratulations, Amigos! Likes for Trees 2024 wrapup 🎉

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Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who participated in Likes for Trees last month! I'm thrilled to announce our amazing results.

We broke our all-time tree-planting record! 🥳 Because this community finished planting trees well before the end of the month, we added a stretch goal and ended up with 45,000 trees planted in July. 🌳

10,000 trees each will be planted in partnership with One Tree Planted as part of the following four projects, which were our top voted tree locations:  

• Where they're needed most
• Amazon Rainforest
• Women's Empowerment
• Forest Fire Fund

Since we had an extra 5,000 trees to plant, we decided to plant them in the spot that had the fifth-highest number of votes: India! Well done, voters. 

Last year we had 1,069 folks planting trees, and 18 of those were Super Planters, planting over 300 trees each. This year we ended up with 5,529 folks planting trees 🤯 and 14 Super Planters. Special shoutout to Amanda and Dan, who led the pack by planting over 2500 trees each, and the rest of this amazing group! 

@Amanda Barber  - 2585 trees
@Dan Breyen  - 2512 trees
@Tomislav Tobijas - 2082 trees
@Ronald Bergmann  - 2064 trees
@John Funk  - 2055 trees
@Mikael Sandberg  - 1850 trees
@Stephen_Lugton  - 1250 trees
@Andy Gladstone  - 1173 trees
@Shubham Agarwal  - 1113 trees
@Barbara Szczesniak  - 805 trees
@Summer Hogan  - 703 trees
@Brant Schroeder  - 680 trees
@Susan Waldrip  - 646 trees
@vasanth  - 310 trees

I'm so excited to see so many Members and Rising Stars on this list! A year from now, how many of you will be Community Leaders? (All of you!?) 😉 You definitely all have the Leader spirit and we'd love to have you aboard!

But in the meantime, each one of these super planters will get a gift card from Kiva, courtesy of the Atlassian Foundation. 💙  Keep your eye on your email inbox in the coming days. 

Whether you joined the community for the first time as part of the initiative or are a longtime Community Leader, thank you so much for making Likes for Trees a success. Our Tree Tracker has been officially updated and please keep an eye out for our next initiative to help our planet!

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[Amanda Barber]

Woohoo, what a great turnout!

[Ronald Bergmann]

Awesome job everyone!

Saving the like for the next initiative - sorry @Monique vdB ;)

Thanks for actually making the stretch goal reality - this felt very rewarding and was a lot of fun!

[Barbara Szczesniak]

We are a very happy community!

[Hana Kučerová]

Nice!

[John Funk]

Well done @Amanda Barber !!!

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Nothing more to say than - well done everyone! 🌱🪴💚

[Summer Hogan]

Great job everyone! And you go @Amanda Barber @Dan Breyen! I would have planted more trees, but was on vacation on an Alaska Cruise for 2 weeks out of the month! Looking forward to the next event! 

[carolyn french]

Congratulations, Super Planters! and for everyone that contributed. We have the best Community ever.
Hat's off to @Monique vdB for getting us across the finished line in record time, and making the exec decision to plant MORE!

[Romanica Romana]

😡😡😡