Providing the Bay Area with Life-Changing Opportunities
Rubicon Landscape provides commercial landscape services across the Bay Area with an expanded approach to transformation, ensuring a healthier environment and more productive lives.
Transforming Landscapes.
Transforming Lives.
Rubicon Landscape Company (RLC), an enterprise program of Rubicon Programs, Inc., is a full-service commercial landscape maintenance and construction company with commercial, municipal, and government clients. We are transforming the futures of families and individuals by supporting the organization’s life-changing work and have been voted a Great Place to Work by our employees.
At Rubicon we practice leaving things better than before. Regenerative work nurtures our precious resources. Our landscaping practices address the fact that one input affects the whole.
Rubicon identifies organizational values to include justice, hope, and humility. By equipping individuals with the needed skills to break the cycle of poverty, Rubicon succeeds in the mission of transforming East Bay communities through financial stability and economic mobility of the residents.
Our Valued Clients
We offer full-service commercial landscape maintenance and construction company to many of our local commercial, municipal, and government clients in the Bay Area. Our clients share our values and often apply their own expanded economic and social approach to their businesses.
One Treasure Island Partnership
Rubicon Landscape Group and One Treasure Island have partnered to enhance community well-being by providing job training, employment opportunities, and sustainable development programs to support the residents of Treasure Island.
The Landscaping Company Built to Fund a Mission
Rubicon Landscape is a social enterprise landscaping company: real commercial landscaping work that funds Rubicon Programs’ workforce development mission.
View Our Success Stories
Rubicon Program is Transforming Lives Through the Beautify Richmond Program
Transforming East Bay Communities Who We Are
Rubicon identifies organizational values to include justice, hope, and humility. By equipping individuals with the needed skills to break the cycle of poverty Rubicon succeeds in the mission of transforming East Bay communities through financial stability and economic mobility of the residents. Learn about our three entities and who we are.
We believe in the promise of fairness, equality and opportunity for all people. We collaborate with others who share our goals of dismantling institutional racism and the cycle of poverty. We hold ourselves accountable to these promises.
Our optimism and hope drive us to constantly seek justice. We think creatively about how to solve social problems. Our belief in our participants, staff and community fuels our hope in achieving our mission to break the cycle of poverty.
We are responsive to the ever-changing needs of our people we serve and the community we live in. We humbly listen to our participants, our community and one another. The urgency of our work demands that we act boldly and take risks, even if we make mistakes along the way.
50 Years of Excellence
Since 1973, we’ve provided vital resources for our neighbors as they improve their lives, their futures, and their communities. What started as a small, community-based organization that provided mental health counseling in Richmond, CA has grown into a multi-county effort to end poverty in the East Bay through comprehensive programming in partnership with the neighbors we serve, other community-based organizations, local government agencies, and our generous donors.
Outstanding Workplace
89% of employees at Rubicon Programs say it is a great place to work compared to 57% of employees at a typical U.S.-based company.
Company Culture at Rubicon Programs
The employee experience below at Rubicon Programs, compared to a typical company shows the strong positive feedback at Rubicon.
Our Company Culture
Maintaining a safe and welcoming company culture is our top priority. We treat all of our employees with respect because that’s how it should be. Here’s how our employees feel about working at Rubicon Programs.
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When you join the company, you are made to feel welcome.
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People here are given a lot of responsibility.
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I feel good about the ways we contribute to the community.
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We have special and unique benefits here.
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Management is honest and ethical in its business practices.
Discover Our Training Program
Rubicon Landscape Group is comprised of three central divisions that allow his to transform landscapes and transform lives through our non-profit and for-profit progams. Rubicon Landscape Group is dedicated to making a difference in our community through outreach programs that give our people a chance to thrive again.
Specialized Workforce Development Services
Our Specialized Workforce Development Services were designed for extremely low-income participants to access career planning. We believe that development leads to economic self-sufficiency.
DISCOVER RUBICON’s COMMUNITY BASED PROGRAMS
Rubicon offer’s four unique community-based programs that deliver integrated holistic individual support to those in need of a helping hand.
LEARN ABOUT RUBICON’S JOB READINESS PROGRAM
Rubicon’s Job Readiness Program provides the necessary landscape skills training, allowing individuals with an opportunity to re-enter the workforce as a productive member of society.
