2021 | $1,000 | GCFM Civic and Historic Landscape | | | | 2020 | $3,000 | COGdesign | | | | 2019 | $1,000 | COGdesign | | $1,000 | First Church of Roxbury for the Urban Ministry Sanctuary Garden. | | | | 2018 | $1,000 | COGdesign | | | | 2017 | $750 | COGdesign | | $750 | Landscape Design Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM) | | | | 2016 | $500 | COGdesign | | $360 | Landscape Design Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM) | | | | 2015 | $2,200 | COGdesign (Community Outreach Group) | | $500 | Landscape Design Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM) | | $300 | LDC Award for Excellence to Heather Heimarck | | | | 2014 | $2,000 | COGdesign (Community Outreach Group) | | $800 | Landscape Design Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM) | | | | 2013 | $1,000 | Landscape Design Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM) | | $1,000 | GCFM Civic Development and Historic Preservation Grant Fund | | $2,000 | COGdesign (Community Outreach Group) | | | | 2012 | $1,000 | Rolling Ridge for Landscape Restoration, North Andover, MA | | $1,000 | Grant to COGdesign | | $1,000 | Grant to Landscape Design Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM) | | $200 | LDC Award for Excellence to John Trexler (Tower Hill Botanic Garden) | | | | 2011 | $200 | Donation to COGdesign for the H. Kost-Gross Award | | $500 | LDC Award to COGdesign | | $200 | LDC Award for Civic Recognition to Marion Pressley | | | | 2010 | $1,000 | Supporting COGdesign, the Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design, fund raising event with Lynden Miller in Boston | | $100 | Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, steward of new 15 acre of public park land in Boston | | | | 2009 | $2,000 | COGdesign, the Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design, Waltham, Massachusetts, and COGdesign provides pro bono landscape design services for public gardens in underserved communities. | | | | 2008 | $2,000 | Supporting the Restoration of The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts | | | | 2007 | $1,500 | The Trustees of Reservations, of which $500 was earmarked for Ashintully Gardens in the Berkshires | | $1,000 | The Trustees of Reservations for its annual appeal | | $2,000 | 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. | | | | 2006 | $150 | Longfellow National Historic Site, Council visited in Sept. 2005 to see the restored formal gardens and structures. | | $450 | Mass Horticultural Society, Council visited the Temple garden in May 2006 and met with Exec. Dir., Mr. Herrera-Mishler. | | | | 2005 | $100 | 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. | | $150 | 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. | | $150 | Minuteman High School, Lexington, behind the scenes look into a Boston Spring Flower Show exhibit. | | $150 | Arnold Arboretum, Council visited in May 2005 to learn of the revitalized Master Plan for the Arboretum. | | | | 2004 | $50 | Nantucket Garden Club, Nantucket Island, MA, to support its Daffodil Show. | | $500 | 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”. | | $100 | Garland Farm Library, Bar Harbor, ME, towards purchase of a reference book in horticulture, architecture, art, or design for the library at Garland Farm. | | $250 | 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. | | $100 | 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. | | | | 2003 | $250 | 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. | | $250 | 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.") | | $390 | 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. | | | | 2002 | $1,000 | 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 | | $200 | 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. | | | | 2001 | $1,500 | Tower Hill Botanic Garden (Worcester County Horticultural Society), Boylston, for a yellowwood tree for the Inner Park at Tower Hill. | | $1,500 | 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. | | | | 2000 | $1,600 | 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). | | $1,000 | 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. | | $1,000 | 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. | | | | 1999 | $500 | 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 | | $1,000 | 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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