The Yerevan branch manages four state-of-the-art tree nurseries, two environmental education centers, and partners with families to create tree-based small business opportunities.

[5] Its major program initiatives include planting trees at urban and rural sites, environmental education and advocacy, community development and poverty reduction.

[6] When Carolyn Mugar, from Boston, visited Armenia in 1992, the country had been impoverished by an energy embargo imposed during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

[4] The organization's mission emphasizes the use of trees to promote economic self-sufficiency, improving the Armenian standard of living while protecting the environment.

Initiated as a pilot project in 2004, the program was designed to mitigate poverty-driven deforestation with support for tree nurseries owned by impoverished families in the Getik River Valley of northern Armenia.

A limited number of volunteer summer positions are available in public relations and outreach,[13] environmental education,[14] and the SEEDS program.