Organizations Filed Purposes:
GreenStand empowers local communities to improve ecological health by facilitating technological solutions that enhance the reforestation of degraded lands.
GreenStand engages communities through smart-technology, fundraising mechanisms and scientific research to provide sustainable, and state-of-the-art methods for planting and monitoring trees.
Greenstand advances its mission by driving three primary organizational areas: 1 - Administration & Operations 2 - Technical Development3 - Program & Project Management As a young organization, Greenstands primary focus in 2019 was on defining organizational frameworks, building technical components for the Treetracker app, and supporting tree planting projects in sub-Saharan Africa. Admin & Operations: On-boarded fundamental and critical technical contributors and volunteers; UX Designers, Management capacities, full stack developers to support the Admin Panel, Webmap and Token trading API. Setup of an AI team.Outlined organizational framework and fundamentals (clarifying Mission and Vision) during the first Greenstand Community Building Event held in California; this community development event allowed the team of fully remote contributors to meet in-person and progress through executive level decisions required to advance the organization.Executive meeting Retreat to sub-Saharan Africa to promote the mission through direct planter engagement, follow up on long term community relationshipsConsiderations for Fairtree entity and implementation of Pay-to-Grow model; Recruitment for program participants; users of the Treetracker app; connected with local womens groups to promote income opportunities within the communities Executive participation in regular information sharing and brainstorming sessionsStart of an outreach culture and organization onboarding procedure Technical Development:Created and publicly released official Greenstand website Data pipeline designed, developed, and deployed - improved and stabilized data upload from remote field locationReleased the first stable and complete version of the Treetracker app Began work to create the Wallet API and created a map interface for this feature. Major data redesign to support planters, organizations, and chain of custody tracking for each capture/tree.Project Management: Spoke at the Global Landscape Forum - Bonn challenge in June Presentation on Greenstand system; making shift from tree planting to tree growing; providing services to increase transparency and accountability in the tree donation space. https://events.globallandscapesforum.org/bonn- 2019/presentations/page/2/ Presented a global audience with the little known issues across the tree planting sector & proposed Greenstand solutions Contacted by the organizers, selected and waivered participation fees to present on a side stage - big invite More requests & inquiries began coming in following the presentation Justdiggit - Kasiki Hai project completed in 2019 with almost 5000 trees tracked during pilot project and publication of the Kasiki Hai Treetracker Pilot Report to follow Within the Treetracker app, Greenstand onboarded the first 18 tree growers who were set up to receive payments based on the pay to grow model in exchange for participation in tree tracking activities. From those tree tracking activities the app counted 17,704 trees to be verified as either surviving or deceased
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Thomas Morrison | Vice President | 1 | $0 |
| Alicia Davis | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| David Ezra Jay | President/Treas | 40 | $0 |
Data for this page was sourced from XML published by IRS (
public 990 form dataset) from:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202013189349311046_public.xml