Enterprise and foundationsConnected by Gift

How the Eclipse Foundation gifts trees

The Eclipse Foundation is a vendor-neutral home for open source projects. At its conferences, every attendee who visits the foundation’s booth gets a tree planted in their name through 1ClickImpact. The campaign has planted 2,000 trees so far.

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2,000trees planted

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Projects: 2
Countries: 1
Partners

Sector: Enterprise and foundations
Sells: Vendor-neutral home for open source projects and communities
Connected via: Gift
Website: www.eclipse.org ↗

who they are

About Eclipse Foundation

The Eclipse Foundation is a non-profit based in Brussels, and it has been the home of open source collaboration for more than twenty years. It hosts more than 450 projects and over 15,000 contributors, with more than 300 member organizations and twenty-plus industry collaborations behind the work.

Events are a large part of how it does that. It runs a flagship conference each year and dozens of smaller community days, and it keeps a booth at the big developer gatherings, where foundation staff and working-group members meet the people who use and build on its projects.

in their own words

“We are a community of communities, bringing together developers, organisations, and innovators from around the globe to share knowledge, collaborate openly, and turn ideas into lasting real-world impact.”

Published by Eclipse Foundation on its own sitewww.eclipse.org ↗

the reason

Why they added impact

A conference booth runs on giveaways. The foundation’s own booth write-ups mention a raffle and a spin-the-wheel for swag, and most of what a booth hands out is carried home and forgotten. For one campaign it wanted something that would outlast the conference.

So a visitor to the booth gets a tree planted in their name. The foundation describes itself as a community of communities, and the gift fits that: it is small, it is personal, and it keeps growing after everyone has flown home.

There was nothing to wire in. The foundation has no checkout or signup for a tree to hang off, so it used Make Impact gifting. A name and an email at the booth, and the certificate follows.

the setup

What they chose

TriggerAn attendee visits the boothEach visitor gets a tree planted in their name, with a certificate to take away.
Carried byGiftGifted through Make Impact. There is nothing to set up.
Delivered byTrees for the FuturePlanted and logged in 2 countries, project by project.
On the recordThe record updatesEach unit lands in the account's own impact record with its project attached.

Trees only, from two Trees for the Future projects: forest gardens in Tanzania and the Forest Garden Program in Uganda. Both plant mixed gardens the families tending them eat from, and the species mix below is mostly agroforestry and nutritional trees.

Each gift goes through Make Impact, so there was no code to write and no integration to maintain. The recipient gets a certificate for the tree planted for them.

The full breakdown is below: both projects, the country each is in, and how many trees the foundation has funded there.

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the record

Impact to date

Every project Eclipse Foundation has funded, with the country, the delivery partner and the units.

Impact by country2 countries

Tanzania1,50075%
Uganda50025%

Tree species mix

agroforestry41.2%
nutritional28%
plant17.7%
fast growing13.1%

The share of each species group across the trees this business has funded, as its account reports them.

Every project Eclipse Foundation has funded through 1ClickImpact, with the delivery partner and the units funded.
Project	Country	Delivery partner	Funded
Forest Gardens in Tanzania	Tanzania	Trees for the Future	1,500 trees
Forest Garden Program	Uganda	Trees for the Future	500 trees

Project names link to the project's own page.

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