The Institute for Environmental Innovation

The Institute for Environmental Innovation (I4EI) is the non-profit parent of The International Small Group and Tree Planting Program (TIST). TIST works with more than 90,000 subsistence farmers in the developing world to improve their lives through tree planting and education programs. So far, TIST participants have generated more than $140M of economic benefits for extremely poor communities and planted more than 18M trees. TIST creates carbon offsets, which is sells to support a range of program areas including education, health, women's empowerment, and agricultural improvement.

TIST is fighting climate change and poverty by helping extremely poor farmers access global markets and organize to improve their lives.