Community Partners

 

Community partnerships enrich TreeHouse through awareness, fundraising and volunteer efforts that impact the teens we serve locally.  

ProMed Collects for Kids

ProMed Molded Products, Inc. of Plymouth does much more than produce high-quality medical parts. Their efforts are helping TreeHouse produce high-quality citizens in the community! President, Wayne Kelly, fell in love with TreeHouse many years ago as he watched his own father, Paul Kelly, support TreeHouse in partnership with his employees. Wayne has taken this same approach and solidified the ProMed and TreeHouse partnership by encouraging his employees to get involved in something outside of their own family and work life. 

A few months ago, at a quarterly bonus meeting, ProMed’s TreeHouse Employee Committee kicked off the partnership by offering prizes purchased by Kelly as employees got involved by donating dollars and items to help at-risk teens. The culmination of their efforts took place at their quarterly bonus meeting in April when the prizes were given away, brownie sundaes were sold, and an entire pallet of collected items were placed in a TreeHouse van. This coming quarter there is discussion about selling grilled items at lunch to raise money for TreeHouse. The employees’ ideas are endless and exciting for TreeHouse! This kind of partnership is amazing and will continue to make a difference for the Plymouth TreeHouse and the teens that attend there!

United Way and Target Donate Trees

A TreeHouse community partnership, known as Target Share-A-Tree, is designed to provide fully decorated Christmas trees to non-profits across the nation. Each year, every Target store donates three fully decorated trees to their local United Way. The Greater Twin Cities United Way has coordinated pick-up and delivery of trees for TreeHouse for the past few years.

This past Christmas, one such tree was delivered to the home of an amazing TreeHouse youth and his family to replace the small Christmas tree that was in the corner. The staff experienced the true meaning of Christmas as the teen stood in the doorway in amazement and thanked them for making his family’s Christmas brighter.

Local Community Business Partners with TreeHouse for Years

Drive by Sheridan Sheetmetal, a New Hope based business specializing in gutters, soffits and fascia systems, and you would never know of their commitment to youth in their community.  Meet the owners, Steve Mattson, Scott Durant and Greg Johnson, and you would definitely know that they support youth.  

In 2001, Steve Mattson found out about TreeHouse through a staff member and began looking at ways to support these kids from his own backyard. He says “TreeHouse is a community-based organization that has an impact right where we are.” Knowing that any money they gave as a business would have an impact, each and every year since that time they have made financial gifts to keep the program going. “We like to help send the kids to places we can’t even go.”  All three owners say that through TreeHouse’s ability to maintain the connection by sending them regular newsletters and by staff stopping by to see them, it was an easy decision at the end of each year.  Through the years, Sheridan Sheetmetal has donated close to $30,000 to the New TreeHouse to help purchase items such as carpeting and a new stove and refrigerator, help pay for the transportation program and with scholarships for trips. 

“We see the value in giving money to TreeHouse, which is different than giving to help kids in New York. These are the kids walking through our parking lot, and we like to know we are helping them.”  This proves that a business, no matter the size or the type of work they do, can and should commit to their own community.  We hope that many community businesses will have an opportunity to learn of TreeHouse this year and begin to help us as we transform lives in their own backyard.