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Keene, New York— The Adirondack Garden Club recently awarded seven grants from the club’s 1928 AGC Founders Fund to nonprofit organizations that positively impact the Adirondack environment.
The 1928 AGC Founders Fund was established in the 1980s to award grants to schools and other nonprofit organizations involved in programs aimed at impacting specific areas within the Adirondacks. These requests will be reviewed by the Club’s Executive Committee for approval and distribution.
Grants were awarded to:
Wild Center Youth Climate Summit; Each year, this event brings together high school and college students from across the country for a two-day conference to learn about climate change, environmental impacts, solutions, and then develop their own climate action plan.
Authorable River Association; Continue to fund projects to improve riparian planting along the Ausable River.
Adirondack Trail Improvement Association; Support ATIS’ program to maintain and restore more than 100 miles of trails in the High Peaks Nature Preserve.
Adirondack History Museum, To help maintain the museum’s colonial gardens.
Adirondack Mountain Club, To support ADK’s Summit Steward Program, which educates visitors and contributes to the protection of alpine habitat in the Adirondack High Peaks.
Hokkoku School, This is in support of the school’s farm and garden program, and we would like to thank Justin Waskiewicz for hosting the Garden Club’s “Forests Under Our Feet” lecture, which will be open to the public. It is now possible.
the Garden Club of America’s Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture; Since our founding in 1928, we have provided funding to more than 1,400 recipients.
About Adirondack Garden Club:
The Adirondack Garden Club was founded in 1928. The club’s mission is to inspire knowledge and love of gardening, support the conservation of native plants and birds, and encourage the public to plant and protect natural resources. Its purpose is to protect the plants, shrubs, and trees that are native to the Adirondack region, to create both wild and cultivated gardens characteristic of the environment in which they are found, and to create gardens throughout the Adirondack region. To promote cultivation. Promotion of citizen conservation and beautification. The Adirondack Garden Club is a 501 C(3) nonprofit organization. For more information, please visit the club’s website.
Top photo: The Adirondack Garden Club awarded a 1928 AGC Founders Fund grant to the Ausable River Association to continue greening efforts on the East Branch of the Ausable River. In this photo, AsRA staff and volunteers are planting along the Upper Jay riverbank. Photo courtesy of AsRA
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