Recent Grants
Since its inception, the foundation has awarded approximately $6.5 million in gifts to more than 75 charitable organizations.
The list of grantees includes schools with horticultural programs and activities serving students from kindergarten through graduate school; organizations with horticultural programs serving both incarcerated and released prisoner populations; public botanical gardens and museums to enhance their services to senior citizens and those suffering from disabilities; as well as organizations sponsoring horticultural job training and healthy eating through community gardens and urban farms for the formerly homeless, those suffering from mental illness, and others in underserved communities.
Crown Community Garden, New Orleans, Louisiana
It is the mission and purpose of Crown Community Garden to educate, coordinate, and support New Orleans East residents in the continual improvement of the quality of life of their neighborhoods.
Back Yard Growers
Backyard Growers of Gloucester, MA, cultivates healthy, connected, environmentally sustainable communities, providing resources and support to establish vegetable gardens at homes, housing communities, organizations, and schools.
Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture (CCUA)
Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture (CCUA) is a non-profit in central Missouri with several targeted programs that provide fresh fruits and vegetables directly to community members in need, while supporting people of all ages with opportunities to develop lifelong skills in home gardening, agriculture, and cooking.
THE History of gardening in America
Granted to the Smithsonian Libraries to fund The History of Gardening in America exhibition at The American Museum of History in Washington, DC.
NYC Urban fArms & Gardens
The Bridge Inc., Grow New York, the Horticultural Society of New York and other similar organizations in NYC and elsewhere, for developing and operating urban farms and gardens as well as horticultural educational programs for underserved populations.
vocational training in horticulture
Granted to the Horticultural Society of New York and The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society as well as Garden Time in Rhode Island for vocational training in horticultural skills of incarcerated and released prisoners.
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