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Issues Advocacy Fund

The Issues Advocacy Fund is a new fund that replaced the Real Tree Advocacy Fund. Your contribution to the Issues Advocacy Fund will ensure NCTA stays on the front lines of issues affecting the industry. Issues that are of interest to NCTA may include: fire codes, legislate issues, labor/immigration, import/export, hard goods, and regulatory issues. With each contribution to the Issues Advocacy Fund, NCTA will be able to continue funding efforts to protect the industry from threats, and advocate for issues which help members run profitable businesses growing and selling Christmas trees.  In 2016, NCTA will continue to protect and promote our industry through:

• Continuing core promotion programs (media relations, interviews, etc.)
• Developing and distributing tools to help you SELL more trees
• Presenting the White House Christmas Tree and maximizing media attention
• Focusing promotions on the environmental benefits of Real Trees
• Combating the fake tree industry’s fake claims
• Continuing to fight misinformation (fires, mold, pesticides, etc.)
• Ongoing work on legislative issues

Legislative Action Fund

Your investment in the Legislative Action Fund helps fund NCTA's work in support of legislative and regulatory priorities of the industry, including labor rules, immigration reform, tax policies and small business regulation. Legislative Action Fund contributions may no longer be deducted from taxable income as a business expense.

You can support the Issues Advocacy Fund, the Legislative Action Fund or both, by making an online donation with a credit card. Click the "Donate Online" button above to make your contribution.

Or, download a 2016 contribution form to be mailed to NCTA:
National Christmas Tree Association

P.O. Box 3609 

Littleton, CO 80161

(800) 975-5920

Fax (303) 374-6594

We’d like to recognize the many people and organizations who have made contributions to NCTA in 2015 to help make protection and advocacy programs possible. The following list of investments were paid as of December 31, 2015. Thank you to everyone who contributed their time, talents and resources to this effort. The TIP, Legislative and Real Tree programs continue to illustrate how, by working together, we can accomplish much more than we can by working alone.

Please note: the following list recognizes combined total contributions to the Real Tree Advocacy Fund and Legislative Action Fund.

Bronze Stars
Investments of $5,000+

Bright Stars
Investments of $1,000 through $4,999

Partner Level
Investments of $500 through $999
Snowshoe Evergreen Inc., Ken & JoAnn Scholz
Stokoe Farm Trees, Larry Martha Suzanne Stokoe

Patron Level
Investments of $100 through $499

Participant Level
Investments up to $100