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From the Landforce Crew

Tiffany’s Moving Office

15 June in General News

As we move through the season, we want to provide different perspectives on what we are doing here at Landforce. Staff and crewmembers will take turns writing posts about their experience. This week, Tiffany Kim, our Workforce Development and Outreach Manager, wrote the post below about her recent meetings with...

Landforce’s Big Day

06 June in General News

June 1st was a big day for Landforce.  After two weeks of training and orientation, our Crew Members received their Landforce shirts and embarked upon Landforce's first contracts.  Our orientation included a wide variety of training opportunities, including team building, learning about Landforce's work culture, and setting personal and work-related...

Shawn teaching about rock crossings on an Emerald View Park trail.

And we’re off…

25 May in General News

“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke This past week marks the launch of the inaugural season of Landforce, and with it comes a chance to define what is possible. As our first 12 recruits begin their orientation and training, we will...

The Landforce staff standing under a bridge in Schenley Park.

The Gang’s All Here

03 May in General News

Landforce is now fully staffed with six permanent staff members -- Ilyssa Manspeizer, Executive Director, Thomas Guentner, Program Manager, Tiffany Kim, Workforce Development & Outreach Manager, Shawn Taylor, Crew Leader, Nate Broadus, Crew Leader, and Kristen Matthews, shared Administrative Coordinator -- you can read about our talented staff here. [caption id="attachment_11822" align="alignleft"...

Crew at Bear Run

Applications for the Landforce Crew have closed

30 April in General News

We are very excited to hire our first Landforce Crew. The application period for 2016 has just closed, and we are reviewing applications and interviewing. If you're interested in being notified when our next application period opens, please sign up for our mailing list. [gravityform id="1" title="true" description="false"]  ...

Team leader Nathaniel with Mo Copeland from StormWorks, learning about green infrastructure

Building skills

25 April in General News

Over the last month or so, Thomas, our Program Manager, and Shawn and Nate, our Crew Leaders, have been hard at work, building skills and helping out around town. Always interested in learning more, our three fearless leaders spent a day this April with the indomitable Joe Divak of Allegheny Cleanways...