Dear everybody, The ACGA is starting a membership drive, and since you all enjoy one of ACGA's key services - the listserve - I would like to reach out to all of you to invite you to become a member or renew your membership in the ACGA.
With membership, you support an activity that improves so many lives in so many different ways. You also gain access to a wide range of practical gardening and community organizing information, as well as great educational materials to help get the next generation excited about gardening. ACGA sponsors and manages Garden Mosaics and Rebel Tomato, two youth and community-based curricula for young gardeners and teachers. The American Community Gardening Association is funded entirely through memberships, donations, and grants. We operate with a minimal staff and an active volunteer board to provide the maximum for our members. We link resources, information, and people for the advancement of community gardening and greening, and advocate on your behalf for a secure future, lush by your own hands. The American Community Gardening Association offers its members an amazing array of resources and benefits that include: "The Community Gardener" (our quarterly printed newsletter) ACGAs monthly electronic news briefs (providing valuable, up-to-date information on grants available, advocacy efforts, workshop schedules, book reviews, and recent research for the community gardener) A year's subscription to Organic Gardening magazine by Rodale Press for new members An information-packed website www.communitygarden.org Advocacy for your community garden and help with finding funding and grants, and Join Today! ACGA Membership levels are as follows: Basic: $30 (Basic members receive all benefits listed above and are eligible to vote in ACGAs Board of Directors elections) Professional: $60 (Professional members receive all of the benefits of a basic member, plus receiving a copy of our membership directory) Library: $90 (Library members receive the benefits of professional membership and ACGA monographs) Organization: $120 (Organizational members receive all of the benefits of a professional member for up to four staff members, plus discounts for up to four Conference attendees) Sustaining: $600 (Sustaining members receive all of the benefits of a professional member, conference discounts for up to six attendees and logo recognition in our publications.) Corporate: $1,200 (Corporate members receive all professional membership benefits, conference discounts for up to ten attendees and logo recognition in our publications.) Sliding scale: $15 (Sliding Scale members receive all of the benefits of Basic membership at a discount due to their status as student, senior citizen, or low income individual. Sliding scale memberships are underwritten by the Susan A. Thode memorial fund) An ACGA membership is an investment with high returns. For a small contribution, youre making it possible for inner-city children to learn how to grow their own vegetables. Youre helping communities in impoverished inner-city neighborhoods develop their own green spaces. Youre supporting projects that bring neighborhoods together. In other words, youre helping us realize our vision of making our world a healthy, sustainable, and enriched place. Thanks for joining or renewing! Kristin Faurest, Artemisia Landscape Design 16 Tulipan utca Budapest 1022 Hungary Tel: 36-20-9582-545 alternate email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
