Funding
Adopt-a-GardenFoster partnerships between businesses, service organizations, universities or community colleges, etc. Contact the local Chamber of Commerce to identify potential partners. Look to the parents of the children who garden for support from their businesses.
America the Beautiful Fund
Operation Green Plant is offering FREE SEEDS!
They are offering between 100 and 1000 seed packets on the basis of availability and relative need for volunteer efforts to grow food for the needy, elderly, handicapped and confined; for charitable plant sales; to beautify neighborhoods; to start new educational programs; and to show that growing plants can give people and communities new hope as they help to beautify and nourish America. These are seeds were packaged to sell last year and have germination rates of 85% to 90%.
To request a Free Seed Grant, simply request an application, then:
- -Attach a short letter describing your project
- -Enclose a check for Shipping & Handling
- -Mail it to the following address:
America the Beautiful Fund
1730 K Street NW Suite 1002
Washington, DC, 20006
(1-800-522-3557)
Deadlines: March 31, June 30 September 30, December 31
Committed to supporting hands-on environmental projects for young people, the foundation provides grants from $250 to $2,500 to school and community groups.
Common Ground Garden Program
Ricardo Gomez, Manager, Agriculture and Environmental Programs
Burpee/USDA Partnership
USDA Extension Service
South building, Room 3347
Washington, DC 20250-0900
(202) 720-2471
Donations for groups servicing the most needy and neglected urban areas.
Federal funds which are given to the cities to use to meet local priorities and needs. $500 - $50,000 available for one program. Contact your local Mayor's office for information and application procedures. Involve the children in the process of securing funds. They can attend council meetings and write letters to successfully lobby for city block grant money for their gardening program.
Contact The Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003, (800) 424-9836 or visit the reference section of your local library to identify potential funders. The Foundation Directory lists corporate and private foundations. Call for locations and phone numbers of regional offices.
Donations
Develop a budget and a specific wish list. Form a plan for raising the money including a list of potential donors, what you will request, who will do the asking, how donors will be recognized and involved in the project, and how you will express your appreciation.
Environmental Protection Agency1533 Sunset Dr., Suite 150, Coral Gables, FL 33143, 305-668-4192, 305-668-4247 fax
$5,000 to $50,000 Grants to 501(c)3 organizations for civic affairs, youth, education, social services
U.S. EPA-Environmental Education Grants
Office of Public Affairs (E2)
75 Hawthorne St.
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 744-1581
$5,000 to $250,000 awards
Garden Clubs
The Grantsmanship Center
Training Opportunities, Free Magazine, Nonprofit Resources, Publications, and more.
Up to $15,000 for projects for community projects
The National Education AssociationTwenty-five gardens receive a Mantis Tiller/Cultivator. Past winners include community gardens, schools, ministries, colleges, master gardening groups, and hospices.
A variety of grants programs to support teachers doing innovative work
National Environmental Education and Training Foundation
915 Fifteenth Street, NW
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 628-8200
"Creating Awareness, Education, and Action in Support of the Environment"
NEETF awards one-year challenge grants requiring a cash match of at least one non- federal dollar for each NEETF dollar awarded. Grants range from $5,000 to $40,000
National Gardening Association
Youth Garden Grants Program
1100 Dorset St.
So. Burlington, VT 05403
Landscapes for Learning, Youth Garden Grants, and Kids Growing with Dutch Bulbs
300 youth gardens nation wide will each be awarded tools, seeds and garden products valued at $750. Applicants must plan to garden with at least 15 children between the ages of three and 18 years. Both food gardens and beautification projects are eligible. Evaluation criteria include: leadership, educational and environmental programming, innovation, sustainability, need and community support.
National Science Foundation
Attention Grants and Agreements
1800 G Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20550
(202) 357-9859
Organic Gardening magazine has provided rainwater harvesting systems to community gardens around North America as part of their Waterworks project. The effort was a great success. Sponsors, Aveeno and Nature's Path, gained a true appreciation for the important benefits community gardens bring to their participants and neighborhoods.They plan to bring this program to more gardens.
See profiles of the gardens which have won in the past
Download an ApplicationFor more information contact:
Therese Ciesinski, Senior Editor
Organic Gardening Magazine
400 South Tenth Street
Emmaus, PA 18098
610-967-7633
therese.ciesinski@rodale.com
Please help us expand this list by sending information on other awards and opportunities for recognition to garden@ncsu.edu
