Fundraising

Fundraising

Plant Sales

When ordering plants for your Teich Garden, order extra plants to sell for parents and others to plant in their home gardens.

Cookbook Sale

Collect recipes from school families and even local restaurants that use ingredients you might grow in the school garden and create a "Fresh From the Garden" cookbook. Sell the cookbook to the school community. Also consider selling advertising in the cookbook to local grocery stores and those restaurants that contributed recipes.

Adopt-A-Plant

Let parents and students adopt a plant for the Teich Garden for a small donation or name a garden bed for a season. Click to see what one organization with a Teich Garden System has done.

Scarecrow Auction

Have students show off their creativity by designing and making scarecrows that can be auctioned. Click to see what this school did.

Garden Tours

Have students show off their garden and even see if local residents with wonderful gardens would like to participate in a "secret garden" tour. Click to see what this school did.

Botanical Items

We found a company that provides botanical items for garden fundraisers. They even donate their profits to school gardens. www.schoolgardenco.com

Seeds

We found companies that have programs for selling seeds as a fundraiser. A great way to tie into your garden.

www.reneesgarden.com/fundraiser.html

http://www.seedsavers.org/Content.aspx?src=fundraiser.htm

http://www.botanicalinterests.com/?

Donor Recognition Bricks

Here is a company that makes engraved bricks that are perfect for donor recognition www.laserbrickandtile.com

Groupon

Yes, that Groupon. They use their platform to permit approved groups to fundraise for projects. http://www.groupon.com/pages/g-team-faq

Crowdrise

Crowdrise is a website platform for charitable and other not-for-profit organizations to get the word out and raise funds for projects.

www.crowdrise.com

Kickstarter

Kickstarter is a new way to fund and follow creativity. They have a website platform for charitable and other not-for-profit organizations to get the word out and raise funds for projects. www.kickstarter.com

Jumo

Jumo is a social networking site that connects individuals and organizations who want to change the world. www.jumo.com

Royalty Programs

We found a very nice webpage for a school that has several royalty programs, including with Amazon.com, where the school gets paid for orders originating from their website. Click here.

Fundraising Ideas and Tools

PTO Today is a great source for more fundraising ideas and tools: Click here.

Grant Resources

We have collected links to organizations that have provided grants of various sizes to fund school garden programs. Click here.

Here is a link to an online training module for grant writing: Click here.

"How to Get Grant Money for a School Gardening Project" Click here.

A good source for links to grant writing tip and other resources Click here.

Good link for grant writing tips Click here.

A site that provides alerts for grant opportunities. Click here.

In addition to the aesthetics, the garden [at our] school is an awesome support and complement to our curriculum. The construction, design, layout, watering system, soil and plants help to advance a vision for sustainability that we have for our school.

The produce is amazing and the educational value for students of this hands-on experience is impossible to replicate using theoretical or virtual models. Our students are eager to plant, maintain and harvest the garden's bounty. The inevitable awareness of the cycle of seed to table is an epiphany for many of the children.

Robert E. Bell Middle School