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Event: 19th Annual World Tree of Hope on Monday, December 9, 2024 from 6:30-8 PM.

Location: Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94108

Admission: FREE Please invite your friends to attend.

Event: 19th Annual World Tree of Hope on Monday, December 9, 2024 from 6:30-8 PM.

Location: Grace Cathedral, 1100 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94108

Admission: FREE Please invite your friends to attend.

Although Grace Cathedral graciously hosts tree by allowing us to display the World Tree of Hope ® there, the Tree is created by Rainbow World Fund as a symbol of global unity and universal love, it's purpose is purely humanitarian with the message that we are all one human family. It is open to everyone regardless of belief or non-belief.

Help us decorate the tree November 2 to Dec. 1, 2024 at Grace Cathedral, sign up here using this Google Form: https://bit.ly/WorldTreeofHope-Volunteer-2024

Alternative you can send a message using the form at the top of the page.

The decorating dates/times at Grace Cathedral (1100 California St.) are from Nov. 2 to Dec. 1, 2024:

• Saturday, Nov. 2 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Sunday, Nov. 3 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Thursday, Nov. 7 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Friday, Nov. 8 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Saturday, Nov. 9 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Sunday, Nov. 10 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Thursday, Nov. 14 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Friday, Nov. 15 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Saturday, Nov. 16 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Sunday, Nov. 17 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Thursday, Nov. 21 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Friday, Nov. 22 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Saturday, Nov. 23 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Sunday, Nov. 24 from 12: 30 PM to 5 PM

• Friday, Nov. 29 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Saturday, Nov. 30 from 10 AM to 6 PM

• Sunday, Dec. 1 from 12: 30 PM to 5 PM

We ask that volunteers please sign up for a 3 or 4 hour shift. This is a 13 years old and above activity. 

There is lots to do! You are welcome to volunteer for a longer shift and on additional days.

If you are signing up as group, please share those details in the group section below. 

The tree lighting celebration is Monday, December 9, 2024 from 6:30 PM to 8 PM.

We will take the tree down on Saturday, January 4, 2025 from 10 AM to 4 PM.

Ways to Help

1. Send us your wish! https://www.worldtreeofhope.org/make-a-wish

2. Tell others about the Tree! Like us on facebook - share us online.

3. Help decorate the tree: https://bit.ly/WorldTreeofHope-Volunteer-2024

4. Sponsor the Tree and the work of Rainbow World Fund with a donation. Click here.

5. Tell others about Rainbow World Fund and how the LGBTQ community is helping others around the world. Learn all about us!

6. Come to the Tree lighting at Grace Cathedral.

7. Help take the tree down on January 6, 2025 from 10 am to 4pm. Send us a message to sign up to help.

Volunteers

Many thanks to these contributors for their support.

Rainbow World Fund's World Tree of Hope ® design and execution team: Linda Mihara, Karen Kai, and Jeff Cotter.

Our special thanks to the following individuals and organizations that help us create the 2024 RWF World Tree of Hope. The tree has over 17,000 origami models on it. The origami each model is folded (some models are created from 6 separate pieces of paper), wired, and submerged in liquid fireproofing solution then dried and reshaped by being flat ironed. Each model is then be hand wired to the tree. The tree has 10,000 lights on it. Creating this years tree was a group effort involving over 300 volunteers and 2100 hours. 

• One Brick

• Hands On Bay Area

  The Alpha Phi Omega fraternity — chapters from San Francisco State, UC Berkeley, and the University of San Francisco

  The Key Clubs from Galileo High School, Lowell High School & UC Berkeley

  Circle-K UC Berkeley

  Galileo High School Red Cross

  Lowell High School Community Awareness

  The Junior League of San Francisco

  Rebecca Ness-L and the staff of Grace Cathedral

  And to the many of individual volunteers — with special thanks to the LGBTQ and the Japanese American — Communities of San Francisco

• Grace Cathedral

Rainbow World Fund Volunteers
Will Clayton - event graphics & web site