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AAA Emergency Tree Service, LLC and Denver Landscape Maintenance

In 1973 I started DLM in order to be my own boss and do something I always enjoyed doing - working outside and doing garden and landscape work.  In 1987, having worked with a  local company – Ross Tree Company – during those winter months I fell in love with tree work, got my tree license in Denver and jokingly have been saying ever since that landscape work is below me (me swinging high above the ground on a rope now –most of the time anyway!!)  In 2001, newly married, I taught my wife Christy to climb and trim trees.  Later that same year I sensed a need in the marketplace and started a specialty company: AAA Emergency Tree Service.  This year we extend over the entire Front Range of Colorado and in the next several months will expanding to 4-5 major cities in the region.  I have been able to grow my business and make a good living.  However, when I came across this idea I called the Philanthropic Business Model as a result of my chance meeting with Maria of Love Outreach Ministries I felt like a certain equilibrium had finally been achieved because not only am I able to make a good living but also can contribute in very positive ways through the money I raise to make a difference in the world.

Update:  by the way since first writing this story some 2 ½ months ago the total money raised by our business in $4100.00 - that takes care of 14 children for 1 year or 1 child for 14 years and that includes an education as well. The money that’s been raised has gone a long way to solidifying the ministries financial picture and action is now under way to looking for a piece of land to buy for the purpose of building a school for 50-100 street children in southern India.  Also we are making initial plans to visit India with Maria and Jack in Winter of 2008 to experience first hand the work being done not only for the kids at the orphanage and streetschool but also for the healthcare facility in the leprosy colony. Most exciting will be looking at the land options – getting the school one step closer to becoming reality.

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