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Membership fees based on number of sites. Fees cover the administrative expenses of the UGP.
Benefits include:
- Special Topic Workshops
- MightyNetwork access for staff
- US Community Garden Database access
- Well Being Index (WBI) usage
- 4 collaborative funding opportunities each year
- Logo reciprocity
EDUCATE (Coming Soon)
Workshops on a wide range of topics led by you and your peers from around the world.
Sample topics:
- Organizational design
- Fundraising
- Marketing
- Garden leadership
- Public/private collaboration
Virtual - real-time and recorded
equip (Coming Soon)
Clearinghouse of standardized tools sourced from UGP organizations to help their peers tackle the eight obstacles to community garden organizational success, ie, land use agreements, water authority contracts, fundraising playbooks, etc
Group buying of core resources: CRM, accounting software, insurance, etc.
Fractional support: Leadership, fundraising, marcomm, accounting
Quarterly Forums
Get to know the community garden community. These quarterly, two-hour Zoom sessions are part meet and greet and part thought partnership.
Annual Meeting
Go to NYC for a community of practice to further strengthen your connections.
MightyNetwork
Be part of a private social network for UGP members (COMINIG SOON)
Lean on your Community Garden partners who have "done it before" to help you strengthen your organization. The UGP will match you with leaders who can work with you and your team to address a pain point or growth opportunity.
Contact Linda to explore an engagement.
Help the UGP get an accurate measure of the entire community garden movement by helping build the Community Garden Database. Complete this survey today.
In the never-ending quest to "prove" the benefits and potential of community gardening, we are developing the Community Garden Well Being Index (WBI). COMING SOON
The UGP Literature Review - Proving what we all know to be true, add to and access research in support of community garden benefits.
