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Make a Difference in Your Community

By becoming a Bee City USA affiliate, local leaders can improve their community’s environment, eating habits, and even economy.

Benefits of Affiliation

Affiliates are not reinventing the wheel! They are active participants in a national movement committed to pollinator conservation supported by conference calls and webinars to promote sharing and collaboration among affiliates.

Becoming an affiliate institutionalizes the local government and community’s commitment to pollinator conservation and provides support for widespread collaboration to establish and maintain healthy pollinator habitat on public and private land. 

Being a Bee City USA affiliate also provides accountability for achieving pollinator conservation results each year, to be shared with one another and the public through annual reporting. 

Bee City USA disseminates information regarding funding opportunities, pollinator research and habitat enhancement through email, e-newsletters, the website and the Facebook page.

Bee City USA shares resources for program promotion – press release templates, brochure templates, T-shirt designs, bee decals, pollinator garden signs, etc. 

Have a question or a problem?  Bee City USA staff do their best to address affiliate requests in a prompt and helpful manner.

​Benefits to your community

Ensure survival of vital animal species

​Help to ensure the survival of vital animal species crucial to our planet's complex food web.
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Improve local
food production

Raise community awareness of how our food grows and improve local food production through expanded pollination. ​​

Stimulate local plant
 nursery market

Improve local plant nursery markets by increasing demand for native, pollinator friendly plants.
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Engage community in removing invasives

Mobilize community to remove  non-native invasive plants to make way for locally native plants.
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Address pest problems less toxically​

Raise community awareness of the least toxic ways to deal with home and garden pest problems.
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Heighten awareness of seasonal changes​

Raise community awareness of the local environment’s seasonality as understanding grows about pollinators’ reliance on blooming plants and trees.
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Increase small business opportunities

Support growth of niche business - pollinator friendly landscaping, beekeeping suppliers, chemical-free lawn care, native seed suppliers.

Bee City USA Needs
​Passionate Local Leaders

To become certified, local city or county governments must complete an application and adopt a resolution which outlines the commitments each Bee City USA affiliate must make. 

​By becoming a full-fledged affiliate of Bee City USA, your city or county can:

Provide credibility for local grassroots pollinator conservation efforts,

Institutionalize the community's commitment beyond any one elected official's or staff member's term of service, and

Open doors to widespread collaboration for establishing and maintaining healthy pollinator habitat within the community’s boundaries.

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