Garden+Grants

= Money Doesn't Grow on Trees =

A listing of foundations, organizations, and templates for raising the money we need.
=Grants by Organization= need or idea which promises to improve inner-city education within one year of the grant award. ||= Online ||= Adam M. will Apply || The Herb Society of America will select four (4) schools/classrooms to receive $200 "Seed Money" to establish an outdoor herb garden. The funds may be used for supplies such as soil, plant trays, containers, child or youth sized tools, etc. The school may need to seek additional funding and support from other sources. The Herb Society of America will provide the educational materials and herb seeds. ||= PDF Project Narrative: (not to exceed 500 words, please complete on a separate sheet) Indoor Garden include: Brief description, primary goals, how educational success will be measured and future plans for the use of the garden stations. ||= Erin Applied || Youth Service America || http://www.cybergrants.com/pls/cybergrants/ao_application.confirm_delete?x_gm_id=3187&x_source_flag=&x_style_id=&x_invitation_id=&x_org_id=4061027&x_req_id=5853769&x_impact_report_id=&x_proposal_type_id=24544&x_ir_type_id=&x_delete=Delete || August 15th, 2011 || [|Sodexo School Engagement Grants] || [|$5,000] || The programs funded through this grant will engage teachers and students, grades K-12, in learning about the incidence of childhood hunger in their community, and in leading meaningful activities that facilitate access to nutritious food for all children, especially those most at risk. ||= Online ||  || Free Seeds! || http://www.freeseeds.us/free_seeds/index.php || While Supplies Last ||  || Seeds w/minimal cost layout || || To request a grant of vegetable seeds, flower seeds and/or herb seeds:# **Write** a short letter describing your project American Community Gardening Association ACGA
 * = Foundation ||= Website ||= Deadline ||= Grant Program ||= Amount ||= Purpose ||= Application ||= Status ||
 * = The Brown Rudnick Center for the Public Interest ||= http://www.brownrudnickcenter.com/foundation/communitygrant.asp ||= Monthly ||= The Community Grant Program ||= $2,000 ||= The proposed use of the grant must be to fully fund a specific, one-time future education-related
 * = Annies grant ||= @http://www.annies.com/grants_for_gardens ||=  ||=   ||= $250 ||=   ||=   ||= Becky Applied ||
 * =  ||= www.solar1.com ||=   ||= Green Lab program ||=   ||=   ||=   ||= Becky Applied ||
 * = The Home Depot Foundation ||= http://www.homedepotfoundation.org/how-we-help/grants.html ||= From April 4th, 2011 to October 31, 2011 ||= Community Impact Grant Program ||= $5,000 ||= Grants, up to $5,000, are available to registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, public schools or tax-exempt public service agencies in the U.S. that are using the power of volunteers to improve the physical health of their community. Grants are given in the form of The Home Depot gift cards for the purchase of tools, materials, or services. ||= Online ||=  ||
 * = Herb Society of America ||= http://www.herbsociety.org/resources/samull-grant.html ||= September 1, 2011 ||= The Donald Samull Classroom Herb Garden Grant ||=  ||= The Herb Society of America will award five (5) schools each year indoor window sill herb gardens. The classrooms selected will receive three (3) windowsill herb garden kits including pots, soil, seeds and educational materials to use in the classroom. The Herb Society of America will provide the educational materials.
 * YSA
 * Operation Green Plant
 * 1) **Fill out** the application which can be downloaded here
 * 2) **Enclose** a check for shipping and handling
 * 3) **Mail** your letter, application and check to the address above ||   ||
 * Kidsgardening.org || http://www.kidsgardening.org/grants/2011-subaru-healthy-sprouts-award || 10/1/11 || 2011 Subaru Healthy Sprouts Award || $500+ || The Subaru Healthy Sprouts Award recognizes and supports youth gardening programs focused on teaching about our environment, nutrition and hunger issues in the United States. Through winning programs, youth will learn the skills necessary to maintain a healthy lifestyle compatible with environmental stewardship and gain an understanding of how their actions can positively impact the well being of their community. || Online ||  ||
 * EPAEnvironmental Education Grant || http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/grants_apply.html ||  ||   ||   || district has to apply ||   ||   ||
 * WE NEED TO CALL THEM || Levitt Foundation ||  ||   ||   || Given the Foundation's size and limited staff time, grants are made by invitation only. Please do not send unsolicited proposals. Call Barbara Greenberg to discuss your project if you believe it fits the description in the previous section.
 * Barbara R. Greenberg, Foundation Advisor**
 * Levitt Foundation**
 * c/o [|The Philanthropic Group]**
 * 630 Fifth Avenue, 20th floor**
 * New York, New York 10111**
 * (212) 501 7785 telephone**
 * (212) 501 7788 fax**
 * BGreenberg@philanthropicgroup.com** ||  ||   ||
 * Lowe’s® Toolbox for Education® grant || http://www.toolboxforeducation.com/hta.html || 10/14/11 ||  || $2,000 to $5,000 || There is a preference for funding requests that have a permanent impact such as facility enhancement (both indoor and outdoor) as well as landscaping/clean up type projects. Projects that encourage parent involvement and build stronger community spirit will be favored. || Online ||   ||

=Websites Listing Various Grants= GARDEN ABC School & Community Garden Grants

=Grant Templates and Applications= > > The P.S. 32 Garden Community Center will become a “Third Place” (A term coined by sociologist Ray Oldenburg in his book A Great Good Place). The garden will be a place where parents and their children can work and learn side-by-side with each other and school faculty. Creating a student and family accessible program that pervades all school subject areas will help foster the love of learning, wonder, inquiry and reading and move the acquistion of knowledge beyond the classroom walls and into all facets of our children’s lives. Families will be encouraged to bring their children into the garden during off school hours. Special classes and family events will take place surrounding our garden curriculum. We want the space to become an integral part not just of our learning community, but also of our neighborhood, a place that links home with school and with the world around us. > --We want our students to be exposed to a spiraling curriculum K-5 which includes the scientific, social, cultural and economic impacts of agriculture in society, with a specific focus on the need for and creation of an urban edible garden. > --For the purchase of garden tools. At this point we have raised beds built by our parents and we have purchased water containment and sub-irrigation supplies, along with soil. Right now we need to purchase garden supplies and seeds for our next season's plantings. > -- We want to move beyond curriculum that is a mile wide and an inch deep. Children benefit from being able to focus on one thing over a longer period of time, and develop deeper critical thinking, questioning, research, observation, and problem solving skills through a long-term topic focus. Students bring everything they learn in Social Studies, Science, Math, and Literacy each year back to this same topic and make new connections and see it in a new light. Longer-term studies also develop attention span, interest, and curiosity. PS32 will have a spiraling curriculum from Kindergarten through 5th grade so that by graduation from our school, every child will have a holistic view of sustainability and garden practices. Each class is slated to have two cycles working with the garden throughout the year for a total of approximately 12 weeks per grade. Most of the lessons are related to science, though social is incorporated in some grades. > The horizontal part of our plan follows the Scope and Sequence of the NYS Mandated Science curriculum, while the vertical part refers to the agricultural lessons that will be taught. The basics of the lessons taught are already a part of our school, but the goal is that it will become more interdisciplinary and more ingrained in the classroom. > > We will ask questions including what to plant, why do we have an urban farm, how food is brought to the table, the differences in rural and urban areas. > > We have already begun building relationships with community organizations. We have registered with Grow to Learn, attended their workshops and received some supplies from them. We also have a commitment from Good Shepard Services to support our garden in their after school and summer programming at PS32. Our goal is to broaden community support for the school and the garden as we expand. > > > Thank you for your consideration
 * 1) Our Vision: We believe that the establishment of Public School 32K’s community garden program is an essential component in leading our students, their families and our staff into the 21st century equipped with the skills, dispositions and responsibilities of life long learners through our garden curriculum. Our aspiration is to create a thriving community garden for our entire school and neighborhood community: students, their families, and staff. Offering access to the general community will allow us to be on the forefront of the national movement of creating schools that are community centers.
 * 1) Our Mission: Academic, scial, communal, global
 * 2) Purpose of request: The purpose for our grant request is to offer our community, both within our school and the surrounding neighborhood, the opportunity to participate in a hands on applied learning experience through the creation and preservation of a school community garden center. We want to be on the forefront of the growing movement to utilize schools as local community centers. We wish to offer all stakeholders: students, their families, teachers, and the local community, access to academic, social, and communal enrichment through our enhanced garden curriculum. Our garden will help to cultivate the attainment of wonder, higher level thinking skills, inquiry and research adeptness, and fostering of social responsibility for entire community and will provide our students with the tools needed to flourish as 21st Century learners and global citizens.
 * 3) How the community and students will benefit:School Wide Essential Question: Why do people have urban farms?
 * 1) Our school as a community center (local comm., school, gss, and ,ms 442)
 * 2) Parental involvement and education (learning takes place side by side)
 * 3) What we have accomplished to date
 * 4) Yard project
 * 5) Library
 * 6) Garden to date
 * 7) Our diverse population and demographics:P.S. 32 serves approximately 300 students grades Pre-K to Fifth. Over 75% of our students receive free or reduced lunch. About 15% of our students are English Language Learners. Over 35% of our students receive special education services. The majority of the school (17 out of 21 classes) is made up of Collaborative Team Teaching classrooms. Our class sizes are very small, fewer than 20 students, which is especially great considering how many classrooms have two teachers in them. In 2002, P.S. 32 became one of the first schools in New York City to have micro-inclusion classrooms (Autism Spectrum Disorder program) that support and foster the learning of children with Asperger’s Syndrome. The program focuses on the acquisition of social skills, communication and coping abilities. G&T... Most students in attendance, 75%, reside in Public Housing. Traditionally, our school has had a disproportionate number of students who reside in single parent homes compared to citywide averages. The school also has a particularly high incidence of children in foster care.
 * 1) 75% Inner city poor
 * 2) Special Needs Populations
 * 3) ASD
 * 4) CTT
 * 5) ESL
 * 6) G&T
 * 7) Statistic showing the impact of a garden curriculum on student achievement and growth.
 * 8) Assessment and reporting
 * 9) Closing:We have a long way to go to create the community center that we envision; a place for families, students, staff, and the local community to work, play, and learn side-by-side, all year long, but we are confident that by acquiring adequate resources we will move our library into being a model example of schools as community centers.
 * 10) Department of Education Tax I.D. # 136400434
 * 11) PTA FEIN #