TeamTrees wants to plant 20 million trees by 2020
by 2020 through fan donations to the Arbor Day Foundation in an attempt to help the planet. Calling the movement"#TeamTrees," the dozens of YouTubers have already reached a quarter of their goal.Starting with Jimmy"MrBeast" Donaldson and former NASA scientist turned YouTuber Mark Rober, dozens of collaborations and fundraising efforts have been started over the past week.
Donaldson and Rober reached out to the Arbor Day Foundation, which is the largest nonprofit dedicated to planting trees. During the past 50 years, the organization has helped plant more than 350 million trees among the United States national forests and around the world. "Our mission is to inspire people to plant, nurture and celebrate trees," Woody Nelson, the vice president of Marketing Communications of the Arbor Day Foundation told."This has been fantastic, just to know this community of young people cares. They are really stepping up to make a donation."In just more than two days, more than 5.3 million trees have been planted thanks to do the donations and fundraising efforts by YouTubers and fans alike.
Content creators from all across the internet are working together on this collaboration. Seán William"Jacksepticeye" McLoughlin held a Minecraft stream on his channel, raising $153,000 to planting trees. Donaldson's original video announcing the initiative has acquired 24 million views and has been hovering at the top of the trending charts since the announcement.
Other collective channels like Linus Tech Tips, the Try Guys, HowToBasic and dozens of others have already posted their own videos. YouTubers fundraising for charity is nothing new; over
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