WE FREE TREES FOUNDATION
Climate Educated. Workforce Ready. Community Owned.
We are a 501(c)(3) climate education and clean energy workforce readiness organization committed to supporting communities by creating opportunities that strengthen local economies.
We prepare communities for the clean energy transition through climate education, workforce readiness, skilled trades exposure, and creative community-rooted capacity building programs. As an ecosystem builder, we create opportunity, expand access, and connect communities to pathways for building, owning, and sustaining businesses and infrastructure in the climate and clean energy sector.
Climate educated. Workforce ready. Community owned.
Our Mission
Our mission is to reconnect communities, youth, and those who have been historically underrepresented, disconnected, or overlooked to the environment, clean energy, and climate space through culturally rooted, creative, and capacity-building programs that strengthen environmental and climate stewardship, community health, economic opportunity, and generational impact.
We bring the classroom to the community.
The Mobile Trade School
The Mobile Trade School is a traveling climate & clean energy education and workforce program that delivers hands-on workshops, demonstrations, and career exposure directly to communities—meeting people where they are. Designed to spark curiosity and build real-world skills, the program brings climate learning on the road to schools, community centers, and neighborhoods.
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The Luweero Project
The Luweero Clean Energy Resilience Community Center is a community-led training hub based in Luweero, Uganda, that prepares youth and adults for the clean energy transition through vocational training, hands-on innovation, and entrepreneurship. Built from repurposed shipping containers, this hub provides accessible climate education and technical skills to empower communities to build, own, and sustain their own clean energy infrastructure.
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The Climate Club
The Climate Club is a youth-centered, after-school climate education, workforce, and leadership program designed to help students build a personal and professional relationship with the environment while exploring climate and clean energy careers early on—across the full climate space.
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Our Approach is Rooted in Partnership
As an ecosystem-builder, we connect initiatives, networks, and partners to support continued learning, impact, and opportunity within the communities we activate.
We work with companies, community-based organizations, schools, educators, governments, local leaders, and climate startups to provide training, curriculum expertise, technology and equipment support, and infrastructure that help communities keep learning, building, and creating opportunity over time.
Training, Curriculum & Program Partners
We are seeking partners to collaborate on development of curriculum & implement programming, technical materials, and community impact activations.
This includes building connections with philanthropic donors, qualified experts, mentors, and educators who can support our initiatives in the U.S. and Uganda. It also includes direct support for training-of-trainers (ToT) models, helping us expand our efforts through local instructors who can continue teaching, training, and building capacity within their own communities.
Technology & Equipment Supply
We are seeking corporate & philanthropic partners able to donate or lend technology and equipment for our Ugandan program graduates to be able to train on real equipment and immediately apply skills to infrastructure projects in local communities/Uganda.
Shipping Containers for Modular Campuses
We are seeking contributions of cargo shipping containers to help build scalable, modular training hubs and innovation spaces to support our programming.
Become a Partner!
Interested in partnering, sponsoring, or contributing cargo containers for our modular campuses—have a question, want to collaborate, or ready to support our overall work?
Submit the form below or reach us directly at grow@wftfoundation.org.