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It was too much of a logistical challenge for me to go to the climate strike today, so instead I'm at home researching tree planting, which my husband says is one of the easiest ways to sequester carbon.

https://www.nationalforests.org/get-involved/tree-planting-programs
Plants in the US, $1 donation brings $2 from the forest service. Goal of planting 50 million trees, they planted 2.6 million trees in 2018

https://trees.org
They are trying to get farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa to plant "Forest Gardens" (instead of slash-and-burn) which is a mixture of trees, shrubs, and veggies that create a diversified farm. Their projects involve getting a whole village to do it, and takes 4 years, so it's pretty slow-build. (300 families each time, about 4000 families enrolled thus far). Their latest finances show that they haven't been spending all of their annual income, but I don't know what that means. If you scroll down on the Ways to Help page, you can see a list of how much each bit costs (training vs. tools vs. seeds, etc)

https://edenprojects.org/
They've planted over 260 million trees since 2005, yowza. 82 project sites across 5 countries (Haiti, Madagascar, Indonesia, Nepal, Mozambique). They seem to go for mass tree nurseries and planting, basically getting enough planted that the trees will naturally regenerate. A rough estimate of the numbers on their history page shows about 2-5 million per year per country? Anyway, this is one of the groups that Ecosia donates money to. (Here's the Ecosia list)

https://onetreeplanted.org/
What's cute about this one is that you can actually choose region and country for planting, including Asia and Latin America, which I don't see as much. There's a lot of information and transparency on the website, and each tree planting session has photo documentation. That said, local outreach and integration is much less than the forest garden people. They've planted 2.5 million in the last 5 years.

There's also The Nature Conservancy, which is more holistic and less tree-specific.