Yes. Tree Trust was founded as a 501(c)3 nonprofit in 1976, and Tree Trust Landscape Services was founded in 2004 as a Social Enterprise (earned [...]

“Social Enterprise” can be defined in many ways, but is typically a business unit of a nonprofit organization that generates revenue through earned income to [...]

No. In fact, it is the opposite. Proceeds from Landscape Services directly support the job training and environmental programs operated by the Tree Trust nonprofit.

Tree Trust’s Landscape Services operates exclusively using revenue earned from the services they provide to pay the business-related expenses for their operations. This includes income [...]

Landscape Services offers tree care, property maintenance, lawn and snow removal, and landscape construction services to residential and commercial clients.

No. All staff employed by Landscape Services are professionals and not youth participating in job training through Tree Trust Career Pathways programs.

Tree Trust’s Career Pathways programs can help youth get the skills they need to build the future they want. With guidance from trained staff, youth [...]

The majority of youth getting paid work experience with Tree Trust participate on a conservation corps crew that does environmental improvement projects in local parks. [...]

“Youth Social Entrepreneurship” and “Social Enterprise” are very similar concepts. However, YSE focuses on the development of young people through the integration of positive youth [...]

Tree Trust’s Community Forestry department organizes efforts to increase the urban tree canopy through community and school-based volunteer plantings, municipal tree distributions, and other special [...]