finding funding
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…and getting stuff
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Taking stock
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your garden
  Of your team
  Of your gardeners
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Taking stock your garden
Do you have the following:
1.  A drawing or site plan of your garden
2.  Appropriate legal documents
3.  Contract/Agreement
4.  Rules and regulations
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Taking stock of your team
Who is doing what?
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Taking stock your gardeners
Harvest Hidden Talents
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Unified approach
How to reach consensus
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Boilerplates
The who, what, where, when and why
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Spintegrity
marketing
vs.
development
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Useful tools
  Mission
book
  Thesaurus
  Grammar guide
  Dictionary
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Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
Be more or less specific. All generalizations are bad.
Avoid excessive use of &s & abbrevs.
One-word sentences? Eliminate.
Don't overuse exclamation points!!!
Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
The dash - sometimes useful - can often be overused.
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
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Who is reading your proposal?
Appeal to multiple intelligences
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start with low hanging fruit
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Your community
Local merchants
Local trades people
Percentage shopping
Houses of worship
Advisory boards can be spring boards!
Who can be your supplier
Who can be your advocate?
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Play nice
And find your niche
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Find a partner
Schools (www.dug.com)
Libraries
Colleges and Universities
County Agricultural Extension Agency
Food pantry
Social Service organization
Civic organization
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Grow a row
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Researching grants
Do you meet their criteria:
Tax status
Location
Use of funds / size of grant
Timing
Reporting
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Places to look
American Community Gardening Association
www.communitygarden.org
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Places to look
Operation Green Plant is offering FREE SEEDS!
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 America the Beautiful Fund
1730 K Street NW Suite 1002
Washington, DC, 20006
(1-800-522-3557)
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Places to look
  Seed
companies
  Garden supply companies
  www/nj.gov/dep/seeds/njcee/grants.htm
  http://nccommunitygarden.ncsu.edu/
funding.html
  http://sustainable.org
  http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/
usdahome?navid=PEOPLES_GARDEN
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Places to look
Garden Clubs
National Garden Club
www.gardenclub.org
Garden Club of America
www.gcamerica.org
and other clubs and plant societies
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Places to look
The Federal Government:
For grants
www.grants.gov/search
www.07.grants.gov/index.jsp
For information/data/findings
http://agricola.nal.usda.gov
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Places to look
The Grantsmanship Center
www.tgci.com
The Foundation Center
http://foundationcenter.org
Council of New Jersey Grantmakers
www.cnjg.org
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Places to look
Cultivate your orchard
Fertilize it
Grow it
and sometimes
Prune it
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Common Grant Application
If you can make it here,
you’ll make it anywhere…
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Elements of a proposal
Project Description
Needs Statement
Narrative
Timeline and Assignments
Budget
Evaluation and Benchmarks
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Site Visit and Off Site Ask
Plan, plan, plan – then un-plan
Stranger in a Strange Land
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Yes
How to celebrate.
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No
What your mother taught you
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The report
Documenting success and failure
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Leveraging
The art of it
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While I have your attention
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Think Universal Design
What is means in a community garden?
Public entryways, level or ramped
Parking with disability access
Pathways that are at least 36’ wide, firm and flat
Water spigots at handicap accessible height
Raised garden beds
http://www.universaldesign.com
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Professional fund raisers organizations
http://www.afpnet.org/
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Lesley Parness
Superintendent of Horticultural
Education
[email protected]
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