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Core Framework

Our Vision

Landforce’s vision focuses on fostering a fair society where every individual feels included, resides in a healthy environment, and achieves their highest aspirations.

We envision a thriving Pittsburgh region where access to restored parks, safe trails, and vibrant green spaces is a shared reality for every neighborhood — not a privilege reserved for a few.

By uniting environmental restoration with equitable economic opportunity, our vision ensures that the people who care for our land are supported, valued, and empowered to build lasting futures for themselves and their families.

Core Framework

Our Mission

Our mission aims to cultivate self-empowerment for individuals seeking reliable, meaningful employment while simultaneously safeguarding and restoring natural habitats.

Landforce invests in individuals who have faced systemic barriers to employment — including people returning from incarceration, overcoming addiction, navigating mental health diagnoses, or experiencing housing instability and generational poverty.

Through paid, hands-on environmental training, life-skills development, and individualized career coaching, crew members step into their power while restoring vital public land assets across Allegheny County.

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Dual Mission: Workforce Self-Empowerment • Habitat Restoration
Scope of Work

What we do

Working closely with a coalition of public and private agencies as well as a network of greenspace and workforce development experts, Landforce...

  • Recruits, trains, educates, employs and supports adults who have faced structural barriers to stable, family sustaining, employment based upon race or personal histories.
  • Facilitates quality land stewardship services such as: invasive plant management removal, vacant lot stabilization, garden bed installation, wooden step installation, trail building, reforestation, garden maintenance, erosion control, tree care/maintenance, riparian zone management, and additional green infrastructure maintenance needs for a variety of land types throughout the city and county.
  • Provides meaningful employment coupled with transitional career coaching using best practices and a trauma-informed approach.
  • Establishes a collaborative brand that creates value for all stakeholders and can be both adaptive and enduring.
Our Values

Guiding Principles

Landforce commits to:

  • Center the needs and experiences of our participants in all we do, on the job site, in training, & with career coaching.
  • Maximize the public benefit of the work we do by combining employment opportunities and environmental stewardship.
  • Adapt to different land types, stewardship services and the needs of our crew members.
  • Recognize that market demand informs program size.
  • Provide high quality and relevant training, on the job experience, and credentials.
  • Create strong partnerships with potential employers and land steward and workforce development organizations.
  • Value multi-organizational collaboration, shared services, and inclusivity.
  • Support partner organizations working in similar sectors rather than competing with them.
  • Ensure that Landforce is an organization built upon respect and compassion for all of our employees and partners.
  • Acknowledge the challenges and trauma many of our employees face and build appropriate tools and capacity.