QUARTERLY REPORT .2016 Q4

You are the reason we have now increased our lifetime tree planting total to 136,880,591 and we will still plant 3,716,954 more before New Year’s Eve 2016. Your commitment to environmental sustainability has enabled Trees for the Future to do much more than just plant trees; we have been able to create a trees; we have been able to create a four-year tree planting model that actually changes lives.

Our latest round of data presented on page 3 is mindbogglingly good.

The Forest Garden model is proving it lifts people out of extreme poverty. After just one year in the program, we see empirically that we are already ending hunger. Imagine what we will see after four years!

And people are taking notice: We have And people are taking notice: We have recently been awarded a USAID grant that will enable us to develop a training of trainings certification (both online and fact-to-face) for our Forest Garden training program.

We have contracted LINGOs, the leading We have contracted LINGOs, the leading learning specialists in the industry, to help with this project. Upon creating these new training resources, we will share these new

Will you help our efforts in Senegal?

Trees for the Future is starting a new project in Kaffrine, Senegal. Farmers are learning how to implement our Forest Garden approach that will yield success, resilience, and prosperity for generations - but we need your help.

It takes a four-year commitment to become an It takes a four-year commitment to become an Adopt-a-Project partner and fund either a portion or all of a project just like corporate sponsor Displate.

If you are interested, please contact partnerships@trees.org.

training resources with food security organizations so that they can help scale the Forest Garden model. This is very exciting for us.

There's a lot more to tree planting than just planting trees; together we change the world.

ENDING HUNGER & PROVING ITMore Innovation. More Trees. More Impact.

Adopt-a-Project partner, Displate, visits our project site in Iguguno, Tanzania in November 2016

Online CertificationAfter recently being awarded a USAID grant, we are developing an online school to train thousands more organizations, project managers and community leaders to replicate our Forest Garden model.

This ‘training of trainers’ certification This ‘training of trainers’ certification program will allow us to scale our programs through collaboration with other organizations, enabling us to go from serving 2,876 families to more than 20,000 families in the coming years.

The new online resource center and school The new online resource center and school to be hosted at trees.org will be the most comprehensive, globally appropriate, scalable, and certifiable agroforestry training program in the world. It will be widely utilized by food assistance organizations working across the developing world to significantly reduce developing world to significantly reduce hunger and poverty for the world’s most disadvantaged people.

Drones in the FieldOver the next year, we are investing in Over the next year, we are investing in drones and enhanced field reporting to create ‘geonarratives’ that validate the environmental, social and economic impacts of Forest Gardens. Our business partners can expect enhanced video and picture reporting from this investment, as well as more data on carbon sequestered, well as more data on carbon sequestered, water conserved, and land restored.

To learn more about our enhanced field reporting, contact partnerships@trees.org.

EXCITING INNOVATIONS ON THE HORIZON

SENEGALOUR IMPACT

We are currently working with 1,654 families, comprised of 12,069 people, across our four projects in Senegal. TREES technicians conduct a survey to measure the food security and economic resilience of participating families. This survey is comprised of 86 questions (many of which are used by USAID and the UN) and conducted at the beginning of the project to establish a baseline and again every year afterwards at the same time each year. This allows TREES to better understand the impact its program has on the lives of participants in the Forest Garden Program, and the results have been incredible. Our latest data from Senegal indicates that just after the first year of the four-year project, we are already ending food insecurity latest data from Senegal indicates that just after the first year of the four-year project, we are already ending food insecurity for most of the participating families, and we aim to end hunger among the remaining 14% over the next year.

"In the past 4 weeks, did you or any household member go a whole day and night without eating anything

because there was not enough food?"

"In the past 4 weeks, did you or any household member have to eat fewer meals in a day because there was

not enough food?"

"In the past 4 weeks, was there ever no food to eat of any kind in your household because the lack of

resources to get food?"

"In the past 4 weeks, did you or any household member go to sleep at night hungry because there

was not enough food?"

Year 1Baseline

OUR RESULTS AFTER 1 YEAR

SHARING OUR IMPACTDIGITAL MEDIA

This quarter, we launched our first ever “What We Do” video.

10.25.16 - Moringa Madness Article 19.1K People Reached

Social Media Success

10.21.16 - The Story of Michael Ebong 9.7K People Reached

11.11.15 The Power of Trees Article 5.5K People Reached

Thank you for your support and helping us plant trees and change lives this year!

You can view it at https://youtu.be/6PIRl9GsVMI