The Doris Duke Foundation (DDF) is excited to announce Treehouse—a dedicated hub for inspiring conversations, collaboration, idea generation and action on nature and natural climate solutions—at Climate Week NYC 2025. DDF launched Treehouse during Climate Week NYC 2024 with nearly 40 events and over 800 participants over the course of the week. To learn more about DDF’s initiatives on Climate-smart Forests and Indigenous-led Conservation, visit the Environment Program’s webpage.
For 2025, DDF is inviting applications from organizations interested in hosting events, convenings, and meetings at Treehouse during September 20-26, 2025. We are seeking applications that:
- Focus on Nature and Natural Climate Solutions: Events, convenings or meetings should emphasize and showcase the importance of nature and/or natural ecosystems in addressing climate change. We are particularly interested in those that focus on the protection, restoration and management of forests to combat climate change.
- Develop Innovative Solutions: Events, convenings, and meetings should inspire creative thinking and problem-solving, leading to actionable strategies for protecting or restoring nature and scaling up natural climate solutions. This includes conversations that foster cross-sector engagement, learning and dialog.
- Drive an Intended Impact or Deliverable: Events, convenings, and meetings should articulate a broader impact that would advance your work. This could include events that deepen commitment to a solution, announce new initiatives or partnerships, influence policy or mobilize resources.
- Cultivate New Partnerships: Events, convenings, and meetings should aim to bring together a diverse set of stakeholders—including policymakers, scientists, community leaders, activists and others—to forge collaborations that can elevate the impact of nature and natural climate actions.
- Amplify a Diversity of Voices and Perspectives: Events, convenings, and meetings should elevate voices from underrepresented communities and those that reflect a variety of cultural and experiential viewpoints. We are particularly interested in events that uplift Indigenous voices and perspectives.
Strong applications to the Treehouse will resonate with the criteria above and will be diverse in their nature. A strong Treehouse application might be focused on deploying a significant press conference, another could be focused on providing space for important closed-door discussions, while others are promoting new solutions to relevant stakeholders, or perhaps finalizing or launching new alliances and future initiatives. In all cases, by centering and uplifting the community of leaders focused on nature and natural climate solutions, Treehouse is designed to uplift and empower the community writ large.
Treehouse also provides an opportunity to partner with the Doris Duke Foundation in the amplification of your work through communications and other platforms. We look forward to collaborating with you!
Additional Information and Guidance
- Location: Treehouse is located at the Doris Duke Center, 444 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022 between 49th St. and 50th St.
- Dates: Events should take place between Saturday, September 20-Friday, September 26, 2025.
- Event Space/Meeting Rooms: Doris Duke Center details and photos can be found here.
- Capacity: Seated events should be limited to 40 people. Receptions should be limited to 60 people.
- Time: Events can take place between 9:30am-7:00pm (with event organizer arrival at 8:30am and departure by 7:30pm). Events generally range from one hour to ½ day, though we are open to different options.
- Service Supports: If you are accepted into the Treehouse, you will receive subsidized access to the Doris Duke Center. Applicants will be provided with fully integrated catering support, with a per-head fee based on size of your event, to be specified during the approvals process and based on your event details. You will also receive free tech support, secure and private meeting location, and on-site event support. On-site photography/video services available upon request. Please take a moment to also read the venue guidelines.
Please include as much information as you can about your event, convening, or meeting in the application. We recognize the event agenda, speakers, and participant list will continue to be refined leading up to Climate Week.
Submission Process
To submit an application to Treehouse, please complete the application document and upload it to the application submission site.
The submission deadline is close of business on Friday, June 20th. We will communicate decisions by Monday, August 1st at the latest, with the hope of responding earlier than that date.
Once an event is confirmed, DDF will be in touch on next steps and to offer additional planning guidance. If you have questions about the application process, please contact events@dorisduke.org.
