Month: September 2026

MetLife

MetLife and MetLife Foundation’s giving and volunteerism help strengthen the resilience of the communities we serve. This work complements our environmental stewardship efforts, forming a cohesive approach to helping communities thrive in multiple ways.

Driving Economic Mobility Through Grantmaking

MetLife Foundation contributes significantly to communities, with over $1 billion in giving since its inception in 1976. The Foundation seeks to drive inclusive economic mobility by addressing the needs of people with low income around the world, making grants across three strategic giving portfolios:

Examples of grants in 2025 include:

• Sesame Workshop: Deliver a global emotional well-being initiative that equips young children and families with skills to understand and manage emotions, while helping providers identify signs of serious mental health challenges;
   
• Sponsors for Educational Opportunity: Support the Growing Emerging Talent in Insurance Initiative to address the early-career talent and knowledge gaps in the U.S. insurance industry by equipping high-achieving undergraduates who need support with building essential skills and knowledge for insurance careers and wealth-building;
   
• Entrepreneurial Training for Innovative Communities: Implement an 18‑month entrepreneurship program delivered via a partner organization that provides early‑stage founders in Japan with capacity building, mentorship, consultation and tailored support to strengthen their business capabilities; and
   
• King’s Trust: Support young people in the U.K. to build their confidence and skills and get ready for work. The charity’s foundational programs help those facing complex challenges and who have left education to develop the fundamentals—such as communications, working with others and resilience—so they can progress into positive outcomes.
   

In 2025, MetLife Foundation made $31.5 million in total grants globally. Fundación MetLife México and MetLife Korea Foundation—both celebrating their 20th anniversaries—contributed $1.4 million collectively.

MetLife and MetLife Foundation are harnessing the global momentum around soccer to create safe spaces for play and expand opportunity for youth sports. The Foundation’s partnership with the U.S. Soccer Foundation advances community health, wellness and youth development through:

• Soccer Will: Transforming Health: Creating mini‑pitches in under‑resourced communities and hosting local engagement events;
   
• Yes, Coach!: Expanding the pipeline of trained coach‑mentors nationwide;
   
• Soccer for Success After School: Empowering youth through structured physical activity, education and mentorship; and
   
• Just Ball: Providing inclusive, accessible neighborhood leagues that promote connection and participation.

In addition, MetLife Foundation’s partnerships include:

• The Place Institute: Paint Your Court is a regional initiative revitalizing community soccer spaces through public art, participatory design and community‑led activation. Initial grants focused on courts in Mexico with plans to expand in Chile, Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay. These efforts will revitalize public spaces, strengthen communities and promote physical, mental and social well-being.
   
• FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund: As a founding donor to the Fund, MetLife Foundation is helping expand access to quality education and sports by supporting grassroots organizations focused on improving learning outcomes for children. The Foundation’s collaboration is in addition to MetLife’s three-year partnership with Global Citizen to provide financial support, employee volunteerism and global reach to drive transformative initiatives in education and economic empowerment.
   

Disaster Relief

MetLife, MetLife Foundation and our employees support disaster response around the globe. MetLife Foundation is a member of the American Red Cross Disaster Responder program and contributes to the CARE Humanitarian Surge Fund, which helps communities with disaster preparedness and immediate disaster response.

In 2025, MetLife Foundation provided disaster relief immediately following the California wildfires, devastating Texas floods and other widespread storms in the U.S. These included employee donation match programs with the American Red Cross and Team Rubicon, an organization that mobilizes veterans to help people affected by humanitarian crises. MetLife Foundation also donated to World Central Kitchen, an organization that provides fresh meals to people in need during disasters.

In addition to grantmaking from MetLife Foundation, MetLife addresses disaster recovery through our products and services. In the U.S., MetLife Legal Plans offers free attorney document review and consultation to Legal Plans customers’ employees who are impacted by natural disasters, whether or not the employees are enrolled in the plan.
 

The American Red Cross honored MetLife Foundation as a 2025 Disaster Relief Hero for demonstrating exceptional humanitarian leadership in the face of devastating disasters.

Protecting Nature and Biodiversity

Community resilience often is impacted by the health of the natural environment and ecosystems in which we live. MetLife’s commitment to environmental stewardship and responsible resource management includes initiatives that protect and enhance biodiversity and healthy ecosystems. Our beehive programs in the U.S. support pollinators and offer employee engagement opportunities around biodiversity. In Australia, MetLife renewed our partnership with the Botanic Gardens of Sydney, supporting the organization’s Rainforest Seed Conservation Project, a research project focused on preserving rainforest seeds and addressing the impacts of climate change.

MetLife aspires to plant 5 million trees around the world by 2030, prioritizing areas vulnerable to natural disasters. MetLife and MetLife Foundation support tree planting through financial support to large-scale reforestation programs in national and state forests, distributing trees to homeowners in communities impacted by disasters and sponsoring employee volunteer planting projects globally.
 

MetLife and MetLife Foundation have planted 2.9 million trees since 2020.

We also use tree-planting projects to educate and celebrate our people, customers and the community. MetLife plants a tree for each new hire across the globe and, in the U.S. and select markets in Asia, we honor full-time employees by planting a tree to commemorate their service anniversaries. We may also plant trees for product sales or for customers opting into paperless communications in certain markets. Through MetLife Legacy Trees™, we plant a tree in honor of each loved one for whom MetLife has paid a Group Life Insurance benefit.¹

MetLife and MIM also originate investments that support biodiversity and healthy ecosystems.
 

MetLife School Forest Established in Korea

In support of our aspiration to plant 5 million trees by 2030, MetLife helps establish school forests in Korea, where children in urban centers can see, touch and learn about nature. The latest school forest was established with the support of the MetLife Korea Foundation at an elementary school in the market’s capital, Seoul.

MetLife employee volunteers helped plant more than 1,000 trees and endangered plants to establish the forest, including Korean native plants, such as Busan tail grass and the Misun tree. The forest also features a tree bark and ring observation platform, insect hotel and mushroom cultivation trees.

Employee Volunteering

Volunteering is a core part of MetLife’s commitment to building resilient, thriving communities around the world. Employees across regions contribute their time and talents throughout the year, supporting a wide range of community needs and purpose‑driven initiatives. Employees engage in activities spanning mentoring, coaching, education, environmental action, financial wellness and food security, along with skills‑based and pro bono projects that leverage their professional expertise.

Key global highlights include:

• Signature Days of Service: Our global engagement opportunity that unites employees during key moments of the year to address pressing community issues. In 2025, these efforts included advancing financial literacy, partnering with community networks and creating family‑friendly volunteering experiences, and involved partnerships with our MOMENTUM Networks.
   
• Skills For Impact Program: This program allowed employees to apply their business skills to help nonprofits strengthen their financial, data and operational capabilities. These one‑day engagements create practical solutions that enhance nonprofit effectiveness and community impact.
   
• Environmental stewardship: Through Our Green Impact, MetLife’s voluntary environmental employee engagement program, employees participate in on‑site and virtual environmental activities, such as litter clean-ups, tree planting and volunteer Green Teams. In addition, for the fourth consecutive year, employees collaborated with the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Cleantech to Market program, helping graduate student teams accelerate the commercialization of climate‑focused technologies.

Read more about how we are strengthening our communities in MetLife’s 2025 Sustainability Report.
 

^{1 MetLife Legacy Trees™ is available in the U.S. and Nepal.}

Whirlpool Corporation has been named to Seramount’s 2026 100 Best Companies list and achieved Pinnacle status on the 2026 Talent and Inclusion Index, reflecting its commitment to an inclusive, family-friendly workplace that aligns with the company’s mission of improving life at home.

Whirlpool Corporation has received two workplace honors from Seramount, a strategic professional services and research firm. These honors include a place on the organization’s 2026 100 Best Companies list and Pinnacle status on its 2026 Talent and Inclusion Index.

Seramount’s 100 Best Companies list recognizes organizations setting the standard for inclusive, family-friendly workplace benefits and policies that support working parents and caregivers. Now in its more than 40-year history, the list highlights workplace practices that help employees and their families thrive.

The 2026 Talent and Inclusion Index from Seramount evaluates organizations’ practices across key areas including workforce representation, recruitment, retention, advancement and company culture. Whirlpool Corporation has participated in the index for the last nine years, and this status reflects the company’s strength in attracting, developing and retaining top talent.

“Being recognized by Seramount reflects our continued commitment to creating a workplace where people feel valued, included and empowered to grow.”

“Being recognized by Seramount reflects our continued commitment to creating a workplace where people feel valued, included and empowered to grow,” said Carey Martin, Whirlpool Corporation executive vice president and chief human resources officer. “We invest in our people at every stage of their career, helping build the workforce we need for the future while setting a strong standard for our industry.”

Whirlpool Corporation supports employees at every stage of their life, offering benefits like paid parental and caregiver leave, time off, health and wellness resources, and opportunities to grow professionally. This focus stems from the core belief that supporting employees and their families is aligned with the company’s long-standing mission of improving life at home.

Whirlpool Corporation’s iconic brand portfolio includes Whirlpool, KitchenAid, JennAir, Maytag, Amana, Brastemp, Consul, and InSinkErator. Approximately 80 percent of the major appliances the company sells in the U.S. are produced in the U.S., supported by more than 20,000 U.S. employees, including 14,000 manufacturing workers across 10 U.S. plants.

Seramount’s 2026 100 Best Companies list and Talent and Inclusion Index recognize organizations based on comprehensive evaluations of workplace culture, benefits, and employee support. The assessment benchmarks companies on key drivers of success, including recruitment, retention, advancement, and inclusive culture, to measure their progress in fostering equitable and family-friendly environments.

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For small business owners, launching a website is a streamlined process until they hit a technical and often tedious step: manually configuring DNS records to connect their domain. GoDaddy today announced a new feature in its Airo AI Builder that automatically connects domains managed through Cloudflare, eliminating the manual DNS setup that previously required users to copy and paste technical records between two platforms.

Airo AI Builder now detects the domain provider, pre-fills the required records, and completes the setup to save everyone time.

Before this update, connecting a Cloudflare-managed domain meant switching between the Airo AI Builder and Cloudflare dashboards, locating DNS records and manually re-entering each one — CNAME, A, AAAA and TXT records — without a typo or missed entry. A single mistake could keep a site from going live, and even an error-free setup could take 15 minutes or more.

The new Domain Connect feature cuts that to a few clicks. When a user adds a Cloudflare-managed domain, Airo AI Builder now:

• Detects that the domain uses Cloudflare nameservers
• Displays a “Connect automatically” button in domain settings
• Securely redirects users to Cloudflare with the DNS records already filled in
• Applies all DNS records instantly after user approval
• Returns users to Airo AI Builder with the domain fully connected

“Syncing an external domain used to be one of the most frustrating steps in getting online,” said Bhala Dalvi, vice president of engineering at GoDaddy. “We tapped into the power of Airo to help streamline this step, so customers can get their websites up and running in just a few minutes.”

The feature is available now to all Airo AI Builder users at no additional cost. It currently supports domains managed through Cloudflare, with automatic connection for additional domain providers to follow.

To learn more about Airo AI Builder, visit godaddy.com/airo.

About GoDaddy

GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar, helps millions of entrepreneurs globally start, grow, and scale their businesses. People come to GoDaddy to name their idea, build a website and logo, sell their products and services and accept payments. Airo™, the company’s agentic operating system for small businesses, helps entrepreneurs get their idea online, run their business day-to-day, and grow through an integrated identity, presence and commerce experience. GoDaddy’s expert guides are available 24/7 to provide assistance. To learn more about the company, visit www.GoDaddy.com.

In this episode, host Beatrice Bizzaro (HPC Italy, Inogen Alliance Global Water Working Group Lead) is joined by Alex Perryman from Antea Group UK, Arularasu K from Chola MS Risk in India and Michalis Lellis from Baden Consulting in Switzerland to explore how organisations are approaching water-related infrastructure resilience as climate conditions become less predictable.

The discussion spans flooding, drought and water scarcity, intense rainfall, glacier melt and slope instability, and examines how these risks are changing the assumptions that infrastructure owners and planners use to design and protect critical assets.

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Time Stamps

• 00:00:02 – Introduction: Water infrastructure resilience in a changing climate
• 00:01:21 – UK water risk: Flooding, scarcity and water stewardship
• 00:02:55 – India: Extreme rainfall and urban flooding
• 00:03:25 – Switzerland: Rainfall, glacier melt and infrastructure resilience
• 00:04:41 – Rethinking historical design assumptions and stationarity
• 00:06:04 – Nature-based solutions, sponge cities and stronger regulation
• 00:07:11 – Cascading risks across interconnected infrastructure systems
• 00:09:07 – Surface water, river and coastal flood risk in the UK
• 00:12:11 – Building long-term, holistic resilience
• 00:13:46 – Critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and connected systems
• 00:17:02 – Lessons from failures, drainage limits and fragmented governance
• 00:20:27 – Flood modelling, AI and nature-based innovation
• 00:22:38 – Digital twins, data sharing and smart dam management
• 00:24:39 – Multinational resilience planning and local priorities
• 00:27:47 – Learning across regions: Netherlands, Asia and the UK
• 00:30:45 – India: Digital twins, satellite data and sponge cities
• 00:31:59 – The business case for resilience and supply-chain risk
• 00:34:11 – Switzerland: Long-term planning and local knowledge
• 00:35:17 – Future trends: AI forecasting, climate scenarios and pre-event planning
• 00:38:32 – Closing reflections and future outlook

Guest Quotes

Alex Perryman:
“So I’d say in the UK we’re talking about the whole spectrum, like too much water, too little water and everything in between and the quality of it, the availability of it, how efficiently we use it and how we reuse it even as a resource.”

Michalis Lellis:
“Climate conditions are changing and infrastructure that was once considered resilient may no longer provide the same level of protection in the future.”

Seventeen hemodialysis machines have completed a journey of thousands of miles from Vancouver Island, Canada, to Ghana, where they are helping expand access to lifesaving kidney care for patients across the country’s northern regions.

Working with Canadian-Ghanaian charity Ghana Medical Help (GMH), DP World supported the trans-Atlantic shipment of the dialysis equipment from British Columbia to Ghana. The machines, donated by Island Health, arrived at the Port of Tema this spring and have since been distributed to hospitals serving communities across Northern Ghana.

The initiative is valued at approximately GH¢7.53 million and will significantly expand the region’s capacity to provide dialysis treatment closer to where patients live. The 17 Fresenius 5008 dialysis machines will support new or expanded dialysis services at four hospitals: the Upper West Regional Hospital in Wa, St. Theresa’s Catholic Hospital in Nandom, War Memorial Hospital in Navrongo and Builsa North Municipal Hospital in Sandema.

Breaking Down Geographic Barriers to Kidney Care

For patients with kidney failure, proximity to treatment can be critical. In parts of Northern Ghana, limited dialysis capacity has historically forced patients to travel long distances to receive care.

In Nandom, for example, some patients have had to wake as early as 1 a.m. to travel to Wa for a dialysis session before making the journey home. According to hospital officials cited by Ghanaian national media, approximately 40% of dialysis patients traveling to the regional hospital in Wa have come from the Nandom area.

The newly delivered equipment is designed to help change that reality by bringing additional treatment capacity directly into underserved communities.

“The barrier now is location, and that is what we are here to break,” Dr. Dominic Akaateba, Country Director and Co-Founder of Ghana Medical Help, told Ghanaian news outlet MyJoyOnline.

The project extends beyond delivering equipment. Ghana Medical Help is also working to build local capacity to operate and maintain the machines. In August, the organization brought together clinical engineers for specialized training on troubleshooting, repairs and preventive maintenance, helping hospitals build the technical expertise needed to keep the equipment operating over the long term.

Logistics That Makes an Impact

Getting 17 sophisticated medical machines from Vancouver Island to hospitals in Northern Ghana required coordination across organizations and continents.

Island Health donated the dialysis machines, while the Potter family provided funding to support the international shipment. DP World contributed its logistics capabilities to help move the equipment across the Atlantic, supporting Ghana Medical Help as it navigated the complex journey from Canada to Ghana.

Doug Smith, CEO of DP World in Canada, said: “At DP World, we see logistics as more than moving goods from one place to another — it is about connecting people with what they need to thrive. We are proud to have supported Ghana Medical Help in delivering this critical equipment and helping expand access to lifesaving care for communities in Northern Ghana.”

The collaboration demonstrates how global supply chains can become a force for positive social impact. The same expertise and networks that move everyday goods around the world can also help medical equipment and humanitarian supplies reach communities where they can make a lasting difference.

Building Stronger Communities Through Global Connections

For Ghana Medical Help, the arrival of the equipment represents the culmination of a major international effort — and the beginning of expanded kidney care for communities across Northern Ghana.

Rather than a one-time equipment donation, the organization is focused on strengthening local healthcare systems for the long term through training, infrastructure, and local ownership. The new machines are expected to increase treatment capacity while reducing the time, cost, and physical burden associated with traveling long distances for dialysis.

For DP World, supporting the shipment reflects a broader commitment to using its global reach and logistics expertise to help strengthen the communities connected by its network.

When logistics connects the right resources with the people who need them most, the impact can extend far beyond the supply chain — helping create healthier, more resilient communities around the world.

Learn more about Ghana Medical Help’s Acute Kidney Care project and its impact in Northern Ghana

Tetra Pak U.S. and Canada today released its FY25 Sustainability Report Supplement, highlighting how the company is advancing more resilient food systems across the region through innovations in food production and technology, expanded recycling infrastructure, operational emissions reductions and community involvement.

The local supplement accompanies Tetra Pak’s 27th Sustainability Report, released globally on June 5, which reported a 34% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the company’s value chain since 2019 and a 56% reduction across its own operations, while reaching 97% renewable energy consumption globally. The U.S. and Canada supplement provides a closer look at the local initiatives and achievements supporting those broader sustainability ambitions.

“Sustainability isn’t a separate initiative for us, it’s how we do business,” said Seth Teply, president and CEO, Tetra Pak U.S. and Canada. “Whether we’re helping customers operate more efficiently, expanding access to carton recycling or giving back to our local communities, we’re focused on delivering practical solutions that strengthen the security of food systems while reducing impact to the planet.”

Highlights from the FY25 U.S. and Canada Sustainability Report Supplement include:

Food systems

• Commercializing the Tetra Pak^® A3/Speed filling line for the Tetra Prisma^® Aseptic 250 Edge with DreamCap™ 26 following a successful U.S. field test, producing 25,000 packages per hour—the equivalent output of nearly three Tetra Pak^® A3/CompactFlex lines with a 50% smaller footprint and lower operating costs.
• Supporting food access through employee volunteer efforts, including packing 18,000 pounds of potatoes, 23 pallets of fresh vegetables and more than 13,000 meals for food banks across North America.

Circularity

• Supporting the expansion of carton recycling access to nearly 2.5 million additional U.S. households in 2025, bringing nationwide access to 63%.
• Supporting ReCB LLC to begin operations in Iowa, where 6,000 tons of used cartons are being processed annually into roof coverboards.

Climate

• Reducing operational emissions: Improvements at Tetra Pak’s Vernon Hills, Illinois, distribution center are expected to avoid approximately 50 metric tons of CO₂ emissions annually.
• Tetra Pak U.S. and Canada continues to operate on 100% renewable electricity.

Nature

• Supporting environmental stewardship through employee cleanup and restoration projects across the U.S. and Canada.
• Building sustainability awareness for employees through Sustainability Week, featuring expert discussions on resilient food systems, responsible sourcing and carton recycling.

Social sustainability

• Taking an active role in the community by sponsoring and volunteering at local events.
• Continued growth in workplace equity and recognition. The company was named to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Companies to Work For list, including its Manufacturing and Agriculture category, placing it among the top 25% of more than 1,000 companies reviewed.

The FY25 Sustainability Report Supplement also highlights Tetra Pak U.S. and Canada’s continued collaboration with customers, municipalities, recyclers, nonprofit organizations and industry partners to help build more resilient, efficient and sustainable food systems across North America.

Explore the full report and the U.S. and Canada supplement.

About Tetra Pak
We’re here to make food safe and available. It’s why we provide advanced food production systems. In collaboration with our customers and suppliers, driven by more than 24,000 dedicated employees worldwide, we protect food sustainably every day for hundreds of millions of people in more than 160 countries. Because we’re here to fulfill a purpose: We commit to making food safe and available, everywhere, and we promise to protect what’s good: food, people and the planet.

More information about Tetra Pak is available at tetrapakusa.com.

Media contact 
Stephanie Ward
Communications Manager, Tetra Pak U.S. and Canada
940-380-4635

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CLEVELAND, September 1, 2026 /3BL/ – Ohio State Buckeyes Wide Receiver Jeremiah Smith and KeyBank are kicking off football season with two exciting initiatives designed to engage and inspire Ohio families: the debut of “The Financial Playbook with Jeremiah Smith”, a financial literacy coloring book for children, and a statewide fan sweepstakes that gives football fans the chance to win one of 15 autographed Jeremiah Smith jerseys.

The “Financial Playbook with Jeremiah Smith” is a 14-page coloring book designed to help parents and caregivers introduce financial concepts in an engaging, age-appropriate way. Through football-themed pages, the book teaches young children about saving, account management, healthy credit habits and giving back to their communities. The Financial Playbook will be available at all KeyBank branches located in Ohio during business hours, while supplies last.

The coloring book focuses on four key concepts:

• Saving for the future and preparing for unexpected expenses.
• Understanding accounts and monitoring your finances.
• Building healthy credit habits and long-term financial confidence.
• Supporting and giving back to your community.

“The Financial Playbook is a fun way for parents and kids to start talking about money together,” said Smith. “My partnership with KeyBank is all about helping Ohio’s youth learn smart financial habits, and this project was a great opportunity to make those lessons engaging and approachable. I hope families enjoy it and learn something along the way.”

The partnership between KeyBank and Smith reflects a shared commitment to investing in Ohio communities and empowering the next generation. As one of college football’s most exciting young athletes, Smith embodies the values of preparation, hard work and excellence that resonate with KeyBank’s mission of helping clients achieve their goals. Through initiatives like the Financial Playbook with Jeremiah Smith and fan experiences such as this sweepstakes, KeyBank and Smith are creating meaningful connections with Ohioans both on and off the field.

In addition to the launch of the coloring book, fans are invited to visit any KeyBank branch located in Ohio during business hours throughout September, take a photo with a life-size Jeremiah Smith cardboard cutout and upload their photo to the official KeyBank Fan Wall for a chance to win. The sweepstakes runs from September 1 through September 30.

KeyBank branches throughout the state will feature special in-branch displays encouraging fans to participate. The promotion is part of KeyBank’s ongoing partnership with Smith and is designed to bring communities together, celebrate the excitement of college football season and create memorable fan experiences across Ohio.

“At KeyBank, we believe financial confidence begins with education,” said Patty Jurca, KeyBank Chief Brand Officer. “‘The Financial Playbook with Jeremiah Smith’ is a creative way to help families start conversations about money, while our fan sweepstakes allows us to connect with communities across Ohio through one of the most exciting athletes in college football today.”

For information on how to enter the sweepstakes, please see the Official Rules at KeyBank x Jeremiah Smith Fan Wall.

Winners will be selected and contacted by a KeyBank representative following the close of the sweepstakes entry period.

ABOUT KEYCORP

KeyCorp’s roots trace back more than 200 years to Albany, New York. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Key is one of the nation’s largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $191 billion at June 30, 2026.

Key provides deposit, lending, cash management, and investment services to individuals and businesses in 15 states under the name KeyBank National Association through a network of approximately 950 branches and approximately 1,100 ATMs. Key also provides a broad range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity, syndications and derivatives to middle market companies in selected industries throughout the United States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name. For more information, visit https://www.key.com/. KeyBank Member FDIC.

No purchase or transaction necessary to enter or win. A purchase or transaction will not improve your chance of winning. For official rules, visit any Ohio KeyBank branch or email grace.sullivan@keybank.com. Restrictions apply.

©2026 KeyCorp®. All rights reserved. KeyBank Member FDIC. CFMA #260824-4891128

WESTCHESTER, N.Y., September 1, 2026 /3BL/ – SavATree today announced a national partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation to accelerate reforestation in regions recovering from hurricanes, wildfires, and other disasters. Through SavATree’s new For Every Tree initiative, every tree removal performed by the company will directly support the planting of a new tree in high‑priority restoration areas across Florida and Michigan.  

This commitment is rooted in SavATree’s brand promise to help another tree grow for every tree removed.  

“We’ve been saving our customers trees, shrubs, and lawns for over 45 years; preservation is core to our mission at SavATree,” said Ryan Berk, Chief Executive Officer of SavATree. “However, when a tree must come down, we believe it should spark new growth somewhere else. Healthy forests are the foundation of resilient ecosystems, and restoring habitats after major storms is essential to protecting wildlife and strengthening communities.  Our For Every Tree initiative ensures when a customer does need a removal, we’re helping another tree grow in the forests that people and wildlife depend on.” 

“Trees and forests are the backbone of our ecosystems. As we grapple with a changing climate and the challenges it brings people and the planet, restoring forests and acting as caring leaders of our neighborhood canopies can make a significant difference in our future, which is why we are proud to partner with SavATree,” said Dan Morrow, Vice President of Partnerships at the Arbor Day Foundation. “SavATree’s commitment to responsible stewardship and their For Every Tree initiative reflects the kind of long‑term dedication that’s needed to create meaningful impact in the forests that need it most. Together, we’re helping restore critical habitat and strengthening the natural landscapes communities rely on.” 

Rebuilding Forests in Florida and Michigan 

The partnership will initially support two major Arbor Day Foundation projects; each identified as a forest area of greatest need by the Arbor Day Foundation: 

• Florida — Hurricane Michael Reforestation Project 

  Hurricane Michael devastated more than 2.8 million acres of forestland when it struck the Florida panhandle in 2018. SavATree’s support will help reestablish lost tree canopy to restore watershed and ecological functions, as well as vital habitat for a variety of threatened and endemic wildlife in the region. 

• Michigan — State Forests Reforestation Project 

  In partnership with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, SavATree will help replant 15,000 trees across state forests. The project focuses on restoring native jack pine and red pine stands, critical habitat for species such as deer, turkey, grouse, and the threatened Kirtland’s warbler. 

Why This Matters Now 

Recent data shows that climate‑driven disturbances are reshaping America’s forests at an unprecedented pace. The U.S. lost more than 3.4 million acres of natural forest in a single recent year, and weather events including hurricanes and wildfires are now rising faster than human‑directed land changes, a dramatic shift documented by NASA and Global Forest Watch.  

SavATree’s arborists have seen the impact firsthand. Many worked on post‑storm cleanup after Hurricane Michael, removing dangerous trees and clearing debris.  

Press Contact: Dan Forman Storyline Advisors Dan.Forman@StorylineAdvisors.com 

About SavATree 

SavATree is a leading provider of professional tree, shrub, and lawn care services, with a commitment to science‑based stewardship and sustainable landscape management. With ISA Certified Arborists® across the country, SavATree delivers expert care that prioritizes preservation, safety, and environmental responsibility. 

About the Arbor Day Foundation 

The Arbor Day Foundation is a global nonprofit inspiring people to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees. They foster a growing community of more than 1 million leaders, innovators, planters, and supporters united by their bold belief that a more hopeful future can be shaped through the power of trees. For more than 50 years, they’ve answered critical need with action, planting more than half a billion trees alongside their partners. And this is only the beginning.  

The Arbor Day Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit pursuing a future where all life flourishes through the power of trees. Learn more at arborday.org. 

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