INITIATIVES
TigerMountain Foundation operates on a simple but powerful idea: every community already contains the seeds of its own transformation. Our role is to help them grow. Through four connected initiatives, we tackle immediate and long-term solutions to food insecurity, economic inequality, and workforce barriers.
Community Gardens
We operate three community gardens across South Phoenix. More than just passive green spaces, these are economic and educational ecosystems where youth and adult participants learn what it means to show up, perform, and be valued. Surplus produce is sold at farmer’s markets across the Valley, and every dollar earned is reinvested directly into TigerMountain’s mission.
Our gardens are gathering points for building community, helping others, and learning new skills. Saturday Sessions use hands-on experiences to teach gardening, workforce development, nutrition, and more.
Workforce Development
TigerMountain gardens are also classrooms. Landscaping and garden work help participants build the core skills that lead to real employment: reliability, communication, physical capability, and pride in a job done well.
Our Personal Strategy Roadmap provides individualized goal-setting plans that move participants from enrollment toward living-wage employment.
We don’t just prepare people for jobs. We prepare them for careers.
Landscaping Services
Our landscaping crew operates as a real, functioning business that provides services to homeowners and organizations throughout the Phoenix metro. Services include property cleanups, landscape design and installation, irrigation system installs and repairs, monthly maintenance, and edible landscaping.
This initiative serves two purposes at once: participants gain paid, verifiable, real-world work experience, and every dollar of revenue flows back into TigerMountain’s community projects.
Reentry & Justice Partnership
TigerMountain actively partners with justice agencies to help returning citizens rebuild their lives. Many of our staff and core leadership are also justice-impacted individuals from the community. That lived experience is a feature, not a footnote.
The vast majority of TigerMountain participants don’t return to incarceration. With our guidance they find more than jobs – they also gain stability, identity, and a community that fosters their greatness.
