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August 5, 2010

Earth times: treering partners with trees for the future

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Redwood City, CA (PRWEB) August 5, 2010 -- Treering Corporation is planting more than 7,000 trees via its partnership with the nonprofit organization Trees for the Future. A tree will be planted for each yearbook that has been created through Treering’s innovative, easy-to-use software that enables families to customize their student’s unique copy of the school yearbook. Nature’s inspiration goes beyond Treering’s company name. Because families order their yearbooks directly online, schools no longer have to pre-purchase and then resell yearbooks. This relieves schools of any financial burden and the work involved in managing book sales and also prevents the wasted paper, ink, and space of leftover books. Treering’s founders harnessed the power of new digital printing and social networking technologies to build a tool that is elegant yet simple, allowing schools to create a traditional “core” yearbook, and then inviting parents and students to customize their own pages with a combination of personal photos and favorite memories. Like the concentric rings in the cross-section of an ancient redwood tree that signal years of growth, each student’s copy of the yearbook will capture the memories, accomplishments, and activities of that year. “We want to protect the earth that our children will inherit by planting a tree for each book we produce,” says co-founder Chris Pratt. "Our goal is to integrate environmental stewardship into our business and through Trees for the Future, we are helping replenish natural resources and investing in environmental education around the world.” According to Conservatree, around 300 books can be made from one tree. Treering considered several partners for their tree-planting initiative and ultimately selected Trees for the Future, a leading nonprofit organization providing economic opportunity and improving livelihoods worldwide through seed distribution and agroforestry training. Over the years Trees for the Future has assisted thousands of communities in planting millions of trees, which have restored life to land that was previously degraded or abandoned. The trees provide food, fodder, fuel, fertilizer, and medicine for the farmers as well as biodiversity for the landscape.  READ MORE
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Treering matches $37,500 in donations for trees for the future on giving tuesday

SAN MATEO, Calif. —Treering, a technology company that offers high-quality yearbooks at affordable prices, today announced it will match $37,500 in donations to Trees for the Future as part of its matching gift campaign for Giving Tuesday on Nov. 30, 2021. This match will contribute a total of $75,000 to Trees for the Future to help further its mission to end hunger and poverty by training farmers to regenerate their land.

​​“This partnership is one more way our team can help make student experiences be even more impactful,” said Kevin Zerber, CEO and co-founder at Treering. “Through our one book printed, one tree planted model with Trees for the Future, we can help lay a sustainable foundation for future generations while preserving students’ memories in a yearbook that they will keep for a lifetime. With donations such as this, we’re collectively supporting farming families, while also providing more meals to children and more access to education and healthcare.”

Treering is the only matching gift campaign partner for Trees for the Future for this year’s event. Trees for the Future works with farmers to restore degraded landscapes through regenerative agriculture practices. Through farmer training, Trees for the Future is fighting hunger, poverty, and climate change. Zerber said his company chose to team up with this organization because they share a common goal of protecting our environment and providing sustainable solutions for future generations.

“With the holiday season right around the corner and industries of all sizes looking to participate in this year’s Giving Tuesday, we’re honored that Treering has committed  to a matching gift campaign,” said John Leary, Executive Director at Trees for the Future. ”Not only does this type of gift mean hundreds of thousands of trees planted and many lives changed, a matching gift helps encourage others to give, making Treering’s support that much more impactful.”

Treering’s model is set up with sustainability in mind because it operates at zero cost to schools and only prints books parents/guardians decide to purchase. Schools often accumulate debt with traditional yearbook companies because they commonly insist on minimum order quantities and impose extra fees, leaving schools with extra yearbooks that are never purchased. The affordability, fundraising options and sustainability initiatives – for every yearbook sold, a tree is planted – Treering is an option for schools that not only want to preserve memories, but also include all students in an eco-friendly yearbook.
For more information about Treering, visit https://www.treering.com/. For more information about Trees for the Future and to make a donation, visit https://trees.org/.

About Treering

Established in 2009, Treering is a technology company that offers high-quality yearbooks at affordable and transparent prices by updating the outdated yearbook industry to allow for inclusivity, flexibility, and sustainability. For more information about Treering, please visit: treering.com.

About Trees for the Future

Trees for the Future is a regenerative agriculture training organization. Local staff work with smallholder farmers in the developing world to restore landscapes and livelihoods through an agroforestry technique called the Forest Garden Approach. With more than three decades of experience, Trees for the Future has planted more than 225 million trees and helped more than 300,000 people.

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Treering helps k-12 schools raise $1.6 million during pandemic

When COVID-19 canceled traditional opportunities in education, yearbook fundraising benefited students and schools.

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Treering, a technology company that offers high-quality yearbooks at affordable prices, today announced K-12 customer schools across the United States raised $1.6 million with their yearbook fundraising during the 2020-21 school year. The amount surpassed last year by more than $15,000. During a time when traditional fundraising efforts, like walk-a-thons and bake sales, were canceled due to the ongoing pandemic, thousands of schools and yearbook advisers turned to the Treering team to implement a non-traditional but impactful fundraiser.

“Teachers and students globally have endured considerable stress with all of the changes due to the pandemic, and it’s been a privilege to be a helping hand for customer schools across the country in raising additional funds for supplies and extracurricular activities,” said Kevin Zerber, CEO & co-founder at Treering. “Since our inception, we’ve been able to help almost 10,000 schools raise a total of $8.5 million. It’s especially important for us to share resources with schools that are aimed to help them financially – from flexibility in process to fundraising that fits their needs.”

In addition to other cost- and time-saving benefits Treering provides school, it also offers three impactful fundraising opportunities, including:

  • Yearbook fundraising made simple: With Treering’s yearbooks being fairly priced from the start, school leaders don’t have to feel guilty about adding an extra fundraising fee to the cost.
  • Recognition ad feature: Recognition ads are a great way to recognize students and teachers in every yearbook and create an additional fundraiser for the school.
  • Targeting the right businesses: By tapping into the teachers’ and parents’ connections with local businesses, building out a list of prospective advertisers becomes much easier. Most often, local businesses want to support the community and the school and view the ad as a good business opportunity.

It’s easy for schools to accumulate debt with traditional yearbook companies due to the fact that they often insist on minimum order quantities and impose extra fees, leaving schools with leftover yearbooks that are never purchased. With Treering, the company operates at a zero cost to schools, only printing books parents decide to purchase. The affordability, fundraising options, and sustainability initiatives – for every yearbook sold, a tree is planted – Treering is an option for schools that not only want to preserve memories for students, but save money.

For more information about Treering, visit https://www.treering.com/. For more information about Trees for the Future, visit https://trees.org/.

About Treering
Established in 2009, Treering is a technology company that offers high-quality yearbooks at affordable and transparent prices by updating the outdated yearbook industry to allow for inclusivity, flexibility, and sustainability. For more information about Treering, please visit: treering.com.

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