Associations
Baseline Landscapes is affiliated with various different organizations which provide education, research, public relations, and representation services to member landscape contractors. This support enables member landscape contractors – such as Baseline Landscapes – to operate more effectively and to provide our customers with quality plants, landscape design and installations, and related products and services.
Below is a list of the main associations with which Baseline Landscapes is affiliated:
BBB – Better Business Bureau – Oregon: Baseline Landscapes has received a perfect A rating from the Oregon Better Business Bureau.
BBB’s mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust. BBB accomplishes this mission by:
- Creating a community of trustworthy businesses
- Setting standards for marketplace trust
- Encouraging and supporting best practices
- Celebrating marketplace role models, and;
- Denouncing substandard marketplace behavior
BBB sees trust as a function of two primary factors – integrity and performance. Integrity includes respect, ethics and intent. Performance speaks to a business’s track record of delivering results in accordance with BBB standards and/or addressing customer concerns in a timely, satisfactory manner.
BBB ensures that high standards for trust are set and maintained. We exist so consumers and businesses alike have an unbiased source to guide them on matters of trust. We provide educational information and expert advice that is free of charge and easily accessible.
BBB Accreditation is an honor – and not every company is eligible. Businesses that meet our high standards are invited to join BBB. Businesses meeting BBB standards are presented to local Boards of Directors (or designees) for review and acceptance as a BBB Accredited Business. To read more about our Accreditation Standards, click here.
All BBB accredited businesses have agreed to live up to our Standards for Trust. Our Standards for Trust are a comprehensive set of policies, procedures and best practices focused on how businesses should treat the public – fairly and honestly in all circumstances. To review our Standards for Trust, click here.
BBB does not compare businesses against each other, but rather evaluates businesses against our standards – and our standards clearly speak to the character and competence of an organization.
BBB is the resource to turn to for objective, unbiased information on businesses. Our network of national and local BBB operations allows us to monitor and take action on thousands of business issues affecting consumers at any given time.
BBB is your key advisor, most reliable evaluator and most objective expert on the topic of trust in the marketplace.
OLCA – Oregon Landscape Contractors Association: OLCA is a not-for-profit statewide professional organization that advocates
for the landscape industry on local, state and national issues affecting both the profession and the world we live in. OLCA functions through the active volunteer work of our membership.
ECO BIZ - Eco-Logical Business: EcoBiz is a certification program recognizing businesses that reach high standards in environmental protection. The completely free and voluntary program is designed to prevent and minimize solid waste, air and water pollution. The EcoBiz certification is developed and administered by the POLLUTION PREVENTION OUTREACH TEAM, a group of pollution prevention experts from seven agencies in the Portland metro area. There are EcoBiz programs for two types of businesses: LANDSCAPE SERVICES and AUTOMOTIVE SERVICES. Customers benefit from EcoBiz by being able to easily find a company that they know is using the most environmentally safe and healthy practices. EcoBiz certified companies must use a suite of approved best management practices and meet standards for employee education and training, in addition to passing an on-site visit. EcoBiz certified businesses benefit by receiving free marketing and advertising and being recognized as leaders in their industry.
PLANET - Professional Landcare Network: PLANET is an international association serving lawn care professionals, exterior maintenance contractors, installation/design/build professionals, and interiorscapers. PLANET is the Association of members who create and maintain the QUALITY OF LIFE in communities across America. PLANET provides its members with a good business foundation to help them evaluate, plan, and better manage their companies. Member firms have direct access to marketing tools, industry specific business publications, updates on legislative issues, and networking opportunities that can assist them in becoming more profitable.
ICPI – Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute: ICPI, founded in 1993, is the North American trade association representing the interlocking concrete paving industry. ICPI is considered by peer associations around the world as the leader in development and dissemination of technical information for design professionals and contractors. Our leadership position is due to years of commitment and energy from more than 1,100 members. ICPI engages in a broad range of technical, marketing, educational, government relations and communications activities. Membership consists of interlocking paver manufacturers, design professionals, paver installation contractors and suppliers of products and services related to the industry. ICPI offers a variety of services to its members through its vast library of technical publications, online design idea galleries, publications, paver installer certification programs and the industry’s only dedicated magazine, Interlocking Concrete Pavement Magazine.
APLD Oregon – Association of Professional Landscape Design is made up of volunteers who dedicate their time to promoting the field of landscape design in Oregon and SW Washington. APLD also works hard to educate the public about the benefits of hiring landscape designers, and to promote the Certification process to their members and to the public.
