The Giant Company in partnership with Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful, announced the Lehigh Gap Nature Center is one of 37 recipients of its 2025 Healing the Planet grant program.

A total of $119,022 in funding was awarded in support of native tree planting projects across Pennsylvania.

“Every action, big or small, helps create a greener tomorrow,” said Courtney Hopcraft, manager of community relations and charitable giving, The Giant Company. “This year’s Healing the Planet grant recipients are making a difference in their own local communities, planting more than 4,000 new trees throughout the commonwealth.”

Since 2021, the Healing the Planet grant program has awarded over $1.3 million to 178 recipients, empowering projects that connect communities with green spaces, protect and improve local waterways and water resources, prevent, reduce and recover food waste, and support native tree planting and habitat restoration.