Landscape Design Council Grants to the Community

2024

$1,000 GCFM Civic Development and Historic Preservation Grant Committee

2021

$1,000 GCFM Civic Development and Historic Preservation Grant Committee

$2,000 COG Design (Community OutReach Group)

2020

$3,000 COG Design (Community OutReach Group)

2019

$1,000 First Church of Roxbury for the Urban Ministry Sanctuary Garden

$1,000 COG Design (Community OutReach Group)

2018

$1,000 COG Design (Community OutReach Group)

2017

$   750 Landscape Design Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM)

$  750 COG Design (Community OutReach Group)

2016

$  360 Landscape Design Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM)

$ 500 COG Design (Community OutReach Group)

2015

$2,200 COG Design (Community OutReach Group)

$  500 Landscape Design Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM)

$  300 LDC Award for Excellence to Heather Heimarck

2014

$2,000 COG Design (Community OutReach Group)

$  800 Landscape Design Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM)

2013

$2,000 COG Design (Community OutReach Group)

$1,000 Landscape Design Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM)

$1,000 GCFM Civic Development and Historic Preservation Grant Committee

2012

$1,000 COG Design (Community OutReach Group)

$1,000 Landscape Design Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM)

$1,000 Rolling Ridge, North Andover, Massachusetts for Landscape Preservation

$  200 LDC Award for Excellence to John Trexler (Tower Hill Botanic Garden)

2011

$  500 COG Design (Community OutReach Group)

$  200 Donation to COG Design for the Heidi Kost Gross Award

$  200 LDC Award for Civic Recognition to Marion Pressley, Landscape Architect

2010

$1,000 COG Design (Community OutReach Group) for the Lynden Miller Fundraising Event

$  100 Rose Fitzgerald Greenway Conservancy, steward of the new 15 acre park in Boston, Massachusetts

2009

$2,000 COG Design (Community OutReach Group)

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 COG Design (Community OutReach Group)

2006

$  150 Longfellow National Historic Site

$  450 Mass Horticultural Society

2005

$  100 Nauset Garden Club, Lyn Peabody Wildflower Garden

$  150 Boston Natural Areas Network, Inc.

$  150 Minuteman High School, Lexington, Massachusetts

$  150 Arnold Arboretum

2004

$   50 Nantucket Garden Club, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, to support its Daffodil Show

$  500 Beatrix Farrand Society, Bar Harbor Maine, 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. The LDC 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, Maine, a nonprofit corporation which operates the Asticou Azalea Garden, Asticou Terraces and Thuya Garden in Maine

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 

$  250 Tyler Memorial Library, Charlemont, Massachusetts, a favorite charity of Marie Stella Byrnes (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." The LDC 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, Rhode Island, to open Sept 2004 

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, Massachusetts),  for preservation and cataloguing of historic glass slide collection in safe, archival storage

$1,000 New England Garden History Society, a program of the Massachusetts Horticulture Society, that encouraged the study, research, and writing about garden history, with a concentration on landscapes in the Northeast andoffered lectures, symposia, tours, and publications; the grant to support the lecture series for 2000-2001

2019

$  500 Landscape Design Council Scholarship Fund (GCFM) 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 COG Design (Community OutReach Group)