Grants for Food Gardens (deadline extended to Jan 12, 2014)
Vanessa Lam
NO GEOGRAPHIC LIMITATIONS
Info below is direct from the website:
Application Deadline Update: We're extending our deadline by one week to January 12, 2014
Sow It Forward is the grants and partnership program of Kitchen Gardeners International. The grant is for nonprofit causes or organizations (schools, 501c3s, food banks, community gardens, colleges, libraries, prisons, senior programs, etc.) interested in starting or expanding food garden projects that are of general benefit to their community. Past grantees include school gardens, community gardens, food bank gardens, library gardens, senior gardens, prison gardens and homeless shelter gardens among others.
For our next round of giving, we'll be offering 100 full grants and roughly 50 partial grants. The full grant has a worth of $500 and consists of:
- a $300 cash grant
- a $100 giftcard to Gardeners Supply Co.
- a $55 vegetable seed (non-GMO, non-hybrid) package from the Ark Institute
- a $25 one-year subscription to KGI's online garden planner courtesy of GrowVeg.com
- a $20 value one-year subscription to Mother Earth News magazine
The partial grant has a value of $325 and consists of a $300 cash grant and $25 one-year subscription to our online garden planner. There are no geographic limitations on what types of food garden projects will be considered. Last year's grantees included projects from Portland, Oregon to Pakistan and many places in between. Because of trade restrictions and international shipping fees, garden projects from outside the US will only be eligible for partial grants.
The application deadline is midnight (Eastern Time) Sunday, January 12, 2014. Only funding requests submitted through KGI's online grant application will be considered for funding. We recommend that prospective applicants download and complete the Sow It Forward Application Prep Form (Word, RTF, PDF) offline before starting their application online. This way you will have a version saved on your computer in case you have any trouble submitting the application online. All applicants will informed by email whether their projects were chosen for a grant on March 15, 2014.
Any questions about the application process can be directed to Roger Doiron via email (ro...@kgi.org) or phone (207.956.0606). For general issues related to using the KGI website, please see our help pages here: http://kgi.org/help