End-of-year donations are the cornerstone of most corporate philanthropy. TNB’s vision is to partner with our clients to make a difference in one very endangered place – the Indonesian rain forest.
We created the Hutan Project to raise money and awareness for the conservation of the world’s fastest disappearing rain forest. The United Nations Environmental Programme projects only 2 percent of the Indonesian rain forest will remain in 2022.
Tech Networks of Boston is partnering with Orangutan Foundation International (OFI) to preserve 1,800 square miles of rain forest and protect the habitat of 6,000 orangutans. While others push for market forces to stop deforestation, our partnership conserves existing rain forest now and provides a base for future forest restoration efforts.
For the first year of a new service contract, 20 percent of monthly fees are donated to the Hutan Project. Our goal is to support OFI in acquiring threatened rain forest in Indonesia, to repair damaged rain forest, and to support patrols to preserve the habitat of 6,000 orangutans.
In July 2009, Susan Labandibar, President and CEO of Tech Networks of Boston, went to Indonesia and met Dr. Birute Galdikas, who founded OFI. She was so moved by the Dr. Galdikas’s work that she created the Hutan Project to help raise funds to support OFI and to help raise awareness of the plight of orangutans and their habitat. In 2010, Tech Networks of Boston expanded the Hutan Project to partner with organizations in the Boston area working on local ecosystem preservation as well.
Supporting forest conservation is a natural extension of our mission. Tech Networks of Boston is committed to building a greener, healthier world by helping companies and non-profit organizations create environmentally-efficient technology infrastructure, by being a green company ourselves and by channeling revenues from our services to support our social mission of forest and habitat conservation.
Susan Labandibar,
President and CEO of Tech Networks of Boston
