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Our Corporate Partners
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Why Partner With American Forests?
Make an Impact Where It Matters
By working with us, you can help address two of the most critical issues of the day: climate change and social inequities that people in underserved communities face. Our work, which also helps protect America’s water and wildlife, produces powerful stories that corporations’ audiences understand and support and that also can help organizations reach marketing, sustainability and employee engagement goals. With a 150-year history in leading forest and climate solutions, we are trusted by brands across dozens of industries.
Good Partners Want the Same Things
We partner with corporations that are aligned with our mission and believe that climate action and social equity are high-priority issues that should be addressed. Our partners’ financial contributions help us create healthy and resilient forests. They also help us engage the public and policymakers around the role forests play in solving some of today’s most urgent problems.

Become a Corporate Partner

To learn more about how to make a powerful impact through our customized partnerships, please contact the Corporate Partnerships team at corppartnerships@americanforests.org.
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American Forests is building a reforestation movement in America, from cities to large, rural landscapes. We are driven by the important role of forests in solving two critical issues: climate change and social inequities that people in underserved communities face. Corporations play a leading role in making this movement a reality.
Signature Partners
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Bank of America

As one of the world’s largest financial institutions, Bank of America is helping drive progress on important challenges facing society, including work to address climate change and the demands on Earth’s natural resources. Bank of America is committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions in its financing activities, operations and supply chain before 2050, and has a goal to deploy and mobilize $1 trillion by 2030 through its leading Environmental Business Initiative to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon, sustainable economy. To maximize their impact, Bank of America works with groups deeply involved in environmental issues, in particular, to address the disproportionate impact of climate change and historic patterns of pollution on minority and underserved communities, to scale clean energy and resilience solutions. That is why American Forests and Bank of America have partnered on Tree Equity to bring more trees to urban areas, improve the environment and enhance livability. Bank of America’s financial and volunteer support have impacted nearly 20 cities.

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Bulleit

Bulleit Frontier Whiskey and American Forests have teamed up to plant 1 million trees by 2025. With a special focus on the white oak, Bulleit is helping restore about 2,000 acres of forest landscapes in several eastern states, preserving the forests’ ability to mitigate climate change, clean water and provide a home for wildlife far into the future. The company has also committed to create greenspace in urban areas through American Forests’ Tree Equity program. As a brand focused on building community, Bulleit aims to support the pioneers and communities pushing the frontier of sustainability forward and shaping the world of tomorrow.

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Coca-Cola Foundation

The Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF) supports transformative ideas and institutions that address pressing and complex global challenges and can leave a measurable and lasting impact in communities around the world. TCCF works with American Forests to restore threatened forests, supporting community and ecosystem resiliency. In California, we are partnering to support restoration work at Eldorado National Forest, on sites burned by the Caldor Fire.

Deloitte

To do its part to help the world achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, Deloitte launched WorldClimate, its strategy to drive responsible climate choices within its organization and beyond. As such, Deloitte US has teamed up with American Forests to support the Detroit Tree Equity Partnership.

Eddie Bauer

For more than 25 years, Eddie Bauer has been helping American Forests restore threatened forest ecosystems across North America, one tree at a time. As a brand born in the outdoors, Eddie Bauer recognizes that we all can play a role in preserving the beauty of nature. Thanks to Eddie Bauer’s support and the support of its customers, American Forests has planted more than 8.4 million trees in the United States and Canada, helping make a difference for wildlife, people and the environment.

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Life Time Foundation

The Life Time Foundation, is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit created by Life Time, Inc. dedicated to inspiring Healthy People, a Healthy Planet, and a Healthy Way of Life. Through financial grants and direct action, we support Youth Nutrition by helping schools serve wholesome, nourishing, minimally processed food to students; Youth Movement by championing physical movement programs that get children active and excited to move for life; and a Healthy Planet by supporting forestation and conservation initiatives, so everyone can live healthy, happy lives. The Life Time Foundation’s support for the restoration of the threatened whitebark pine aligns closely with the Life Time Foundation’s mission of inspiring healthy people, a healthy planet, and a healthy way of life. By conserving and restoring this threatened species and its ecosystem, a key component to alpine biodiversity is protected, ensuring future generations can continue to enjoy the health benefits of outdoor recreation in pristine nature environments and foster a deeper connection with nature.

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Salesforce

Salesforce’s sustainability vision is to accelerate the world’s largest businesses to net zero; sequester 100 GT of carbon through conserving, restoring and growing 1 trillion trees; and energize the ecopreneur revolution. As part of the one trillion tree initiative, Salesforce committed to the goal of conserving, restoring and growing 100 million trees, which can be tracked on their website. Salesforce has partnered with American Forests to support a number of critical transformational restoration projects, including using climate-smart techniques to reforest the Camp Fire burn scar in California and restoring habitats on a Hawaii volcano to save birds threatened by climate change. Salesforce is also working to bring Tree Equity to Dallas, Phoenix and Rhode Island — areas that are grappling with extreme heat and that have been identified by American Forest’s Tree Equity Score as having high disparities in tree canopy. This work was featured at Dreamforce 2021.

Takeda

Takeda is a global, values-based, R&D-driven biopharmaceutical leader with a large U.S. presence and a commitment to prioritize health equity, climate resiliency, K-8 math literacy and food security across the country. In 2022, Takeda and American Forests launched a three-year partnership to support two large areas of work: post-wildfire restoration and Tree Equity in four cities. Through the Takeda Wildfire Restoration Fund, American Forests and its on-the-ground partners will be poised to move quickly after catastrophic wildfires to develop climate-smart projects that restore landscapes and to continue research into the best forest management practices to prevent future wildfires. Takeda’s support for Tree Equity will help communities analyze data to decide which neighborhoods need trees the most and will fund plantings to ensure those neighborhoods’ residents receive the health, climate and economic benefits that trees provide.

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Travelers

Travelers cares about its customers, the communities it serves and the environment. That’s why the company teamed up with American Forests to fund the planting of one tree for every Personal Insurance customer who elects paperless billing. The partnership helped put 1.5 million trees in the ground in essential ecosystems across the U.S. The effort was so successful, Travelers committed to plant or conserve another 1.5 million trees — bringing their commitment to 3 million trees so far. The company also supports numerous charitable and sustainability initiatives, including an urban forestry job training and mentorship program in Minnesota. Travelers has also committed to being carbon neutral by 2030.

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Lead Partners
American Tower

American Tower and American Forests are working together to restore landscapes on a large scale and give back to local communities. In 2018, American Tower began with widespread restoration of jack pine trees in northern Michigan and has expanded to several other essential ecosystems reaching across the country and into Mexico. From supporting local food forests to post wildfire restoration, American Tower and its employees have also supported the planting of 900,000 trees in seven years of partnership.

Amica

With a passion for community-building, Amica has been a well-aligned partner of American Forests since 2021. Now, Amica is deepening its engagement with American Forests through a partnership built to support our multipronged vision for the future of reforestation. For every customer who chooses to go paperless, Amica and American Forests are planting a tree (up to 33,000 total) within the continental U.S. as a symbol of their mutual goal to reforest the country and help preserve the planet’s resources.

Arconic Foundation

Arconic Foundation works with American Forests to sustain, rebuild, and add resiliency to our nation’s forests. In Tennessee, we are partnering to establish a Seed Corps program to strengthen the nursery system and seed pipeline necessary to meet our collective reforestation goals.

Microsoft
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. Since launching a partnership with American Forests in 2019, Microsoft has advanced Tree Equity across 5 U.S. cities hosting the company’s datacenters. By leveraging its technology and capacity, Microsoft has not only helped to plant trees, but also played a vital role in determining where those trees are needed most through support of the Tree Equity Score. They have also ensured tree canopy longevity through workforce development and trainings.
Nespresso
Since 2021, Nespresso has been collaborating with American Forests to support reforestation projects in California, Hawaii, New Jersey and Texas. Additionally, Nespresso is supporting American Forests Tree Equity work nationally and in cities like Dallas, TX as well as donating more than 100,000 lbs. of coffee ground compost as fertilizer for street trees in Detroit, MI. Recently, Nespresso has further deepened this partnership by providing mission support to American Forests as our Earth Month matching partner.
Weyerhaeuser
As a leader in sustainable forestry, Weyerhaeuser is a proud partner of American Forests. Through this partnership, Weyerhaeuser supports the Forest-Climate Working Group, the Women’s Forest Congress and, most recently, an innovative program aimed at expanding Tree Equity through sharing ​forestry career opportunities in rural communities. This partnership strongly supports the Weyerhaeuser sustainability strategy and 3 by 30 positive impact areas.

Becoming a Corporate Partner

Being a good corporate citizen is good for business. And American Forests makes it easy. We customize benefits, messaging and annual giving to best meet the needs and goals of our organization and the companies that partner with us. Learn more about how to make a powerful impact by partnering with us.
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Resources for Our Corporate Partners

Our corporate partners have access to a collection of powerful photos and video that detail our projects and reflect the landscapes and cities where we work. Also available are descriptions of American Forests and our initiatives. Download these resources to help amplify your commitment and educate others about our work.

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