Little Tree Huggers Earth Center

Specific Need

Help Loudoun County’s most highly acclaimed bilingual, nature-based preschool grow, and impact the lives of hundreds of more children and families! Our rain or shine outdoor learning model needs to be accessible to as many children and families as possible. Little Tree Huggers (LTH) Earth Center breaks down social and cultural barriers to understanding and sustainability through stimulating outdoor bilingual learning experiences, celebrating other cultures, exploring the wonders of nature as well as teaching tolerance, solidarity, and empathy for one another and the environment throughout their lives. As the nonprofit arm of a nationally acclaimed home-based preschool, LTH Earth Center is focused on creating more access and equity in the Sustainability Education space by assisting families embarking on the home-based Sustainability Education journey, providing scholarship opportunities for lower to middle income students, and helping to feed LTH’s growing animal rescue population.

Mission

LTH Earth Center's Mission is to create more access and equity in the Sustainability Education space by assisting families embarking on the home-based Sustainability Education journey, providing scholarship opportunities for lower to middle income students, and helping to feed LTH’s growing animal rescue population.

LTH’s vision is to inspire children, their families and even local businesses to connect with nature, care for the environment and celebrate the diversity of our multicultural world.

Profile

LTH Earth Center is a bilingual nonprofit, nondenominational environmental educational initiative in Leesburg, Virginia dedicated to breaking down barriers to sustainability in all areas of society.

LTH Earth Center is the charitable arm of LTH LLC, a nationally acclaimed home-based Preschool, licensed to operate with a maximum of 12 children since 2015. Due to an overwhelming response to our curriculum and award-winning environmental commitments like solar and geothermal, we were urged by the local community to embark on the process of expanding LTH into an environmental educational initiative able to impact the lives of hundreds of more children and families. LTH Earth Center was incorporated in 2020 as the charitable arm of LTH LLC and with the purpose of making our unrivaled educational model accessible to as many children and families as possible. With the help of donations, our first franchise location was established in 2023, thus allowing us to impact the lives of 12 more children and their families. 2023 saw LTH not only win Loudoun County's first Sustainable Small Business Award, LTH also won the US Department of Education's Green Ribbon Schools Award!