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Growing for Futures Therapeutic Garden Grant

National Garden Bureau launched a philanthropic program in 2014 that supports the building and growth of therapeutic gardens across North America. This program furthers NGB’s mission of promoting gardening to gardeners and non-gardeners alike.

“NGB is proud to continue our annual therapeutic garden grant program to sponsor the growth of therapeutic gardening across the U.S. Gardening is a great tool of healing for so many and we understand the importance of the grant program to allow for these programs to flourish and grow in our communities.” says NGB President Nick Pucci.

Thank you to our sponsors:

Sakata supports Therapeutic Garden Grant
National Garden Bureau
Thank you to our in-kind sponsor:
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Therapeutic Garden Grant recipients by year:

The Learning Garden Grant Winner - National Garden Bureau

2020 GRANT RECIPIENT: The Learning Garden, Los Angeles CA

First place and winner of a $3,000 grant For over 18 years, The Learning Garden has connected the community with organic horticulture, hands-on gardening therapy, and cultivation practices. The garden also has longstanding partnerships with the UC Master Gardeners Program and Yo San University of Traditional Medicine, bringing students and the community closer to nature...
Capper Foundation - Garden Grant Recipient

2020 GRANT RECIPIENT: Capper Foundation, Topeka KS

Runner up and winner of a $1,000 grant The Capper gardens include raised garden beds on a corner of their Topeka campus, as well as raised and flat garden beds in an inner courtyard. The adults served can participate in planting, weeding, and watering of the gardens each week. Pediatric clients observe the gardens while...
Project Grow Farmstand - Allies Inc Therapeutic Garden

2020 GRANT RECIPIENT: Allies, Inc., Hamilton NJ

Runner up and winner of a $1,000 grant Allies, Inc. is a nonprofit agency dedicated to providing housing, healthcare, meaningful employment, and recreational opportunities to people with special needs in the communities of their choice.  Since 1999, we have been enriching the lives of people with special needs by promoting their greater independence with dignity,...
Magee

2019 GRANT RECIPIENT: Magee Rehabilitation Hospital, Philadelphia PA

First place and winner of a $3,000 grant Opened in 1958, Magee Rehabilitation Hospital (Magee) is a non-profit, 80-bed hospital providing physical and cognitive rehabilitation services to the city of Philadelphia and surrounding communities. Of the treatments they provide in the Creative Therapy Center, the addendum therapy services, are supported entirely by generous donations and...
Knockout Farm

2019 GRANT RECIPIENT: Opportunity Knocks, Knockout Farm, Maywood IL

Runner up and winner of a $1,000 grant Opportunity Knocks (OK) enriches life and community for teens and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). OK supports IDD persons as they live, work, learn, grow and connect within their community through after work/after school and adult day programming as well as an umbrella of...
Wilmot Botanical Gardens

2019 GRANT RECIPIENT: Wilmot Botanical Gardens, Gainseville FL

Runner up and winner of a $1,000 grant The therapeutic horticulture (TH) program at Wilmot Botanical Gardens (WBG) takes place inside a state-of-the-art greenhouse, outside in raised beds and throughout five acres of gardens. The TH program is dedicated for those with medical challenges and other special needs, but also for students, volunteers, and those...
Beyond Boundaries Sensory Garden

2018 GRANT RECIPIENT: Beyond Boundaries, Ward, AR

First place vote-recipient and winner of a $3,000 grant Beyond Boundaries is an equine-assisted therapy center that provides skilled therapy services to children and adults with disabilities. Founded in 2003, and receiving 501-3c status in 2004, Beyond Boundaries was conceived by a group of therapists and other individuals who identified the need for a dedicated...
Kenny Rogers Children's Center Sensory Garden

2018 GRANT RECIPIENT: Kenny Rogers Children’s Center Sensory Garden, Sikeston, MO

Second place vote-recipient and winner of a $1,000 grant The Kenny Rogers Children’s Center is an outpatient pediatric therapy center whose mission is to improve the quality of life for children with special needs and their families throughout the community and region by providing a wide array of superior developmental and therapeutic services. The Kenny...
Cultivating Insight Through Gardening at San Quentin Prison

2018 GRANT RECIPIENT: Insight Garden Program, Berkeley, CA

Third place vote-recipient and winner of a $1,000 grant Insight Garden Program (IGP) facilitates an innovative environmental education curriculum combined with vocational gardening and landscaping training, so that people in prison can reconnect to self, community, and the natural world. This “inner” and “outer” gardening approach transforms lives, ends ongoing cycles of incarceration, and creates...
Monarch School of New England

2017 GRANT RECIPIENT: The Monarch School of New England, Rochester, New Hampshire

First place vote-recipient and winner of a $3,000 grant The Monarch School of New England (MSNE) is a unique, comprehensive, private, non-profit, year-round, specialized, day school for students, 5 to 21 years of age, with severe physical, intellectual, emotional, medical and developmental disabilities. MSNE’s programs, located on two sites, are based on an integrated team…

National Garden Bureau would like to recognize all the worthwhile grant applicants for creating and maintaining therapeutic gardens. NGB encourages support of these and other therapeutic gardens by the industry, local communities, and individuals:

  • Allies, Inc., West Windsor, NJ
  • Belmont Hospital Northeast Philadelphia, PA
  • Capper Foundation, Topeka KS
  • Cedar Garden, Mesa CA
  • CITYarts, Inc, New York NY
  • Cornerstones of Care, Kansas City MO
  • East Yard Community for Environmental Justice, Commerce, CA
  • Fairview Community Garden, Canton MS
  • Gainesville Peer Respite, Gainesville, FL
  • Goodwill Industries, Fort Worth TX
  • Grace Garden, Indianapolis, IN
  • Happy Ever After League, Scottsdale, AZ
  • Hutchings Psychiatric Center, Syracuse, NY
  • Hope Blooms, Halifax NS
  • IS 61 Therapeutic Garden, Corona NY
  • JARC Florida, Boca Raton, FL
  • Lincoln R-2 High School, Lincoln MO
  • Morning Pointe, Lexington, KY
  • Mountain Comprehensive Care Center, Prestonburg KY
  • New Campus School Garden, Traverse City MI
  • Norristown Community Garden, Norristown PA
  • Opportunity Knocks, Maywood IL
  • Quincy IL Public School, Quincy, IL
  • South Orange Middle School, South Orange NJ
  • Special Olympics Missouri, Jefferson MO
  • The Creative Therapy and Healing Gardens at Magee Rehab Hospital, Philadelphia PA
  • The Learning Garden, Los Angeles, CA
  • Traceway Retirement Community, Tupelo, MS
  • University South Carolina Aiken, Aiken SC
  • Urban Autism Solutions, Chicago IL
  • Wilmont Botanical Gardens at University of Florida, Gainseville FL

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