Grant writing. Sorry kiddo, I don't write grants for other groups - mostly lack of time, but learning how to fish is a great thing to learn to do, a necessary skill for any non-for profit organization. First you search the web for organizations that provide grants in your area for parks, open, space, greening, projects that feed people, read their organization's requirements, and go to town. There are books in your local public library on grant writing, or if you know someone in a local NGO, charity, not-for-profit, university ( hotbeds of grant writing) then there are sources at hand to help. Also, I've forwarded this to the listserv, in case anyone here has "ins" to grantors near you, or has more specific advice. -----Original Message----- From: Pauline Tessier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 10:16:28 -0700 Subject: Re: community_garden digest, Vol 1 #2236 - 1 msg
Dear Adam, You mentioned > write foundation grants in this letter. Is this strictly for your own garden, or do you help other gardens with this endeavor? Pauline On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Send community_garden mailing list submissions to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the web, visit > https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can reach the person managing the list at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than > "Re: Contents of community_garden digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: [tb-cybergardens]: garden location fees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: October 5, 2005 5:33:26 PM MST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [cg] Re: [tb-cybergardens]: garden location fees > > > Friends, > > The first thing you do, as a garden is decide what your mission is. At > the > Clinton Community Garden, we're a garden for a neighborhood in a parks > and > open > green space starved neighborhood. As an open garden, perhaps the most > accessible community garden in the City of New York, with over 5,000 > key > holders, open > gates on the weekend, and a sign on the front door that tells passers > by > that > if they want to come into the garden and someone's inside, all they > have to > do is ask - people take pictures. The place is pretty. > > However, the Clinton Commnity Garden is first and foremost a community > garden. It's a special use public space, like a public library is. > We're a > NYC > Parks garden, so we don't, and can't collect "fees," though we do > accept > contributions which we always acknowledge, and are organized as a > 501(c)(3) > corporation > to accept them. Nobody in the garden makes a cent off of it. And > that's our > mission, and how we run it. > > Key to running a public space is managing its programming. For any > > gathering > of over 10 people, for artistic programming, even filming, the > applications > have to be made a good six weeks in advance, and have to be approved > by the > steering committee of the garden. Anyone who wants to see how we do > this > can go to > the "events application" section of our website: Clinton Community > Garden . > > Our rule of thumb is that the event has to be garden centered, and > serves > the > garden community. A local dance company who wants to do a performance > on > the > grass, is OK. A film crew for PBS doing a segment on bee keeping and > vermiculture in the garden is OK, a documentary crew from Japan doing > a > piece on a New > York City community garden is OK, but a fashion crew looking for a > free > venue, a commercial TV series wanting to bring in heavy cameras and > cables > to film > a few minutes for a cop show and trash the joint, or a bunch of NYU > student > looking for cheap color, and rudely ordering gardeners and our usual > > patrons > from their "artistic shots" and with no respect for the joint - we'll > pass. > > We raise operating dollars from selling t-shirts at the 9th Avenue food > festival, write foundation grants, and accept contributions from > > neighborhood > residents who love the garden. We don't have to "spread 'em" for > commercial > film > crews. And our neighborhood likes it that way. But community garden > > governance, > like all politics is local. And you should do what you need to do. > But we > won't do anything that excludes our seniors, kids and daily users of > the > garden > for a temporary media circus that wants a "little color." > > Hope this has been useful, > Adam Honigman > Volunteer, > Clinton Community Garden > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of > > ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA > and to > find out how to join, please go to > http://www.communitygarden.org > > To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: > > https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden ______________________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: https://secure.mallorn.com/mailman/listinfo/community_garden
