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Creating Sustainable Funding

Creating Sustainable Funding. Creating Programs that Keep on Giving. Your Group Needs Money to Operate. Where do We Start?. Showcase what the Master Gardeners do for the community. What does your County need that your Group can Provide?. There are Variety of Programs. Educational Programs

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Creating Sustainable Funding

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  1. Creating Sustainable Funding Creating Programs that Keep on Giving

  2. Your Group Needs Money to Operate

  3. Where do We Start? • Showcase what the Master Gardeners do for the community

  4. What does your County need that your Group can Provide?

  5. There are Variety of Programs • Educational Programs • Plant Sales • Cookbooks & Publications • Plant Shows or Events • Equipment or Tool sales

  6. Every County needs some type of Gardening Classes • Consider what you would like to teach • Consider the experts in your group • How big of a class can your group handle? • What would you charge? • Does your county need a series of Classes? • Set the time to be held same time each year. Pick-up donations, refreshments, sign-in, etc.

  7. TYPES OF CLASSES • Series of Vegetable Classes • Series of Flower Classes • Class on Flower Arrangement • Class on Beginning Landscape Design • Hands-On Fruit Tree Pruning Seminar • Turfgrass Management Class(es) • Building Raised Beds Seminar • Herbs & Their Use • The types of classes are endless

  8. Plant Sales

  9. Cookbooks & Publications • Master Gardener Cookbooks sell very well • It takes a group effort • It does take work and coordination • Small How-To Publications • Think outside the box

  10. Plant Events and Shows • Host a yearly event • County Fair plant judging • Spring of Summer Flower Show • Herb & Vegetable Luncheon / Dinners • Do your members have a Specialty

  11. Host Seminars • Your group can host a variety of Seminars • Construct Rain Barrels • Build Raised Bed Kits • Make Garden Labels • Host a Garden Preparation Class • Sponsor a Garden Tool Event • What does your county need / want?

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