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1999
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$500
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Garden Club
Federation of Massachusetts, Inc., (GCFM): donation to our LDC Scholarship
Fund in memory of Virginia Thurston, LDSP Ch. 1974-77, GCFM Past Pres. 77-79,
LDC Ch. 1993-95 and Barbara Wiswall, LDC Ch. 1985-87
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$1,000
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Community Outreach
Group for Landscape Design (COGdesign), a non-profit service organization
which brings together under-funded community groups in need of landscape
design services, and mature landscape design students and professionals, who
work pro bono in exchange for the professional experience and satisfaction of
contributing to the community landscape.
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2000
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$1,600
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Radcliffe Seminars
at Harvard University, Landscape Design and Landscape Design History
Certificate Program, for two scholarships for committed students who are
members of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts (recipients to be
determined by Radcliffe).
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$1,000
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Massachusetts
Horticulture Society (EIm Bank, Wellesley), "dedicated to encouraging
the science and practice of horticulture and developing the public's
enjoyment, appreciation, and understanding of plants and the
environment." Grant used for preservation and cataloguing of historic
glass slide collection in safe, archival storage.
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$1,000
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New England Garden
History Society (a program of Mass. Hort. above), which encourages the study,
research, and writing about all aspects of garden history, with a
concentration on landscapes in the Northeast. The program offers lectures,
symposia, tours, and publications and is open to anyone with an interest in
the landscape in all its expressions. Grant was used to support lecture
series for 2000-2001.
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$1,500
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Tower Hill Botanic
Garden (Worcester County Horticultural Society), Boylston, for a yellowwood
tree for the Inner Park at Tower Hill.
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$1,500
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New England
Wildflower Society, Framingham, "the oldest plant conservation
organization in the United States, promoting the conservation of temperate
North American plants through conservation, research, advocacy, education and
horticulture." Grant, in honor of their birthday, was used to renovate a
wildflower planting and install a rustic bench at Garden in the Woods.
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2002
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$1,000
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Pine Street Inn,
Boston, "committed to men, women and children in need of shelter,
sustenance, and the basic moral and material supports necessary to lead a
dignified and stable life," for a garden project
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$200
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Roger Williams Park
Botanical Center, Providence, RI, to open Sept 2004. A thank you to the
director of the Botanical Center who is also the designer of the RI Spring
Flower and Garden Show and who has given us the use of a Flower Show conference
room as headquarters for our LDC judging workshops.
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2003
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$250
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British Memorial
Garden Trust, Inc., New York, NY, the creation of a garden that will
celebrate the historic ties linking the United States and the United Kingdom
while honoring the 67 British victims of the World Trade Center attacks. A
thank you to Trust member, Natasha Hopkinson, who hosted a reception for LDC
members in her Manhattan home and garden in September.
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$250
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Tyler Memorial
Library, Charlemont, MA, a favorite charity of Marie Stella Byrnes, to thank
her for the dinner held in her loft for LDC's NYC tour participants. (The
contribution was used to purchase a headstone for Louisa Dorsey, a fugitive
slave rescued by the "underground railroad.")
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$390
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Habitat for
Humanity, Fitchburg, MA. "Habitat for Humanity International is a
nonprofit, nondenominational Christian housing organization” whose volunteers
"build simple, decent, affordable houses in partnership with those who
Iack adequate shelter." Our Council coordinated the landscaping for a
home in Fitchburg.
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2004
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$50
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Nantucket Garden
Club, Nantucket Island, MA, to support its Daffodil Show.
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$500
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Beatrix Farrand
Society, Bar Harbor (Mt. Desert Island), ME, a nonprofit Maine corporation to
foster the art and science of horticulture and landscape design with
particular emphasis on the life and work of notable American landscape
architect, Beatrix Farrand, and to secure Garland Farm in Bar Harbor, Beatrix
Farrand's last home and garden. Our Council is one of the "Founding
Members”.
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$100
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Garland Farm
Library, Bar Harbor, ME, towards purchase of a reference book in
horticulture, architecture, art, or design for the library at Garland Farm.
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$250
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Southwest Harbor
Beautification Fund, Southwest Harbor (Mt. Desert Island), ME, to support the
Charlotte Rhoads Park and Butterfly Garden in Southwest Harbor that the
Council visited in July 2004.
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$100
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The Island
Foundation, Seal Harbor, ME, a nonprofit corporation which operates the
Asticou Azalea Garden, Asticou Terraces, and Thuya Garden in ME Harbor.
Council visited during the Mt. Desert Island tour July ’04.
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2005
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$100
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Nauset Garden Club,
Lyn Peabody Wildflower Garden, supporting the wildflower garden visited by
the council in September 2004, along with a member’s private garden.
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$150
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Boston Natural
Areas Network, Inc., Paul Kelly’s choice for “good works”. He guided the
Council on a visit to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston rooftop garden.
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$150
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Minuteman High
School, Lexington, behind the scenes look into a Boston Spring Flower Show
exhibit.
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$150
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Arnold Arboretum,
Council visited in May 2005 to learn of the revitalized Master Plan for the
Arboretum.
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2006
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$150
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Longfellow National
Historic Site, Council visited in Sept. 2005 to see the restored formal
gardens and structures.
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$450
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Mass Horticultural
Society, Council visited the Temple garden in May 2006 and met with Exec.
Dir., Mr. Herrera-Mishler.
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2007
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$1,500
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The Trustees of
Reservations, of which $500 was earmarked for Ashintully Gardens in the
Berkshires
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$1,000
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The Trustees of
Reservations for its annual appeal
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$2,000
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Community Outreach
Group (cogdesign.org) a non-profit service organization which brings together
under-funded community groups in need of landscape design services, and
mature landscape design students and professionals, who work pro bono in
exchange for the professional experience and satisfaction of contributing to
the community.
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2008
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$2,000
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Supporting the
Restoration of The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts
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2009
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$2,000
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COGdesign, the
Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design, Waltham, Massachusetts, and
COGdesign provides pro bono landscape design services for public gardens in
underserved communities.
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2010
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$1,000
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Supporting
COGdesign, the Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design, fund raising
event with Lynden Miller in Boston
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$100
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Rose Fitzgerald
Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, steward of new 15 acre of public park land in
Boston
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2011
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$200
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Donation to
COGdesign for the H. Kost-Gross Award
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$500
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LDC Award to COGdesign
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$200
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LDC Award for Civic
Recognition to Marion Pressley
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2012
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$1,000
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Rolling Ridge for
Landscape Restoration, North Andover, MA
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$1,000
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Grant to COGdesign
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$1,000
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Grant to Landscape
Design Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM)
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$ 200
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LDC Award for
Excellence to John Trexler (Tower Hill Botanic Garden)
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2013
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$1,000
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Landscape Design
Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM)
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$1,000
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GCFM Civic
Development and Historic Preservation Grant Fund
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$2,000
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COGdesign
(Community Outreach Group)
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2014
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$2,000
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COGdesign
(Community Outreach Group)
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$800
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Landscape Design
Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM)
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2015
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$2,200
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COGdesign
(Community Outreach Group)
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$500
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Landscape Design
Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM)
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$300
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LDC Award for
Excellence to Heather Heimarck
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2016
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$500
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COGdesign
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$360
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Landscape Design Council Scholarship
Fund (GCFM)
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2017
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$750
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COGdesign
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2018
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$750
$1,000
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Landscape Design Council Scholarship
Fund (GCFM)
COGdesign
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