Be
a Part We Need Your Support ! Volunteers
are the backbone of our success. Volunteers are needed in many areas, from assisting
in horticultural therapy sessions to greenhouse maintenance and office assistance,
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Who
Will Do The Work?
The Growing Center, Inc. will rely on both paid employees and volunteer labor to carry out its programs. It will also have an unpaid Board of Advisors drawn from interested community members. Paid staff will include a Director, Assistant Director, Assistant Grower, and a Secretary, as well as a certified Horticultural Therapist. Volunteers and interns will help in a variety of ways. Indoors, we will need people to greet visitors, answer telephones maintain the library, and prepare mailings. We'll also need help with the computer work: managing our mailing fist, maintaining participant files, and preparing newsletters. Other volunteers will help with supervising program participants, caring for greenhouse plants and outdoor gardens, maintaining equipment and facilities, selling center produce, delivering surplus produce to food banks and planting surplus bedding plants at local parks and community buildings. Founder David Boyer is the Assistant Executive Director, and Linda Boyer is the Executive Director. Besides leading the grass roots development of the project, they will oversee all aspects of building, financial planning, personnel hiring, volunteer scheduling, and public relations. |
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What Do We Need? To get our programs off the ground," The Growing Center, Inc., needs funding and public support. We will raise money through donations, memberships, tuition-based programs, and fundraising events. We will get financial support through government and private grants, as well. The Growing Center, Inc. also needs a variety of tools and equipment to be purchased or donated. These include the following:
What Kinds of Programs Will We Offer? The Growing Center, Inc., will provide a variety of hands-on horticultural therapy programs. Program themes will include the following:
The Growing Center, Inc. will also provide educational programs and workshops open to all members of the community. The topics include:
Display gardens will fulfill another part of the education mission of The Growing Center, Inc. People will be able to visit the center and get ideas for plants and planting combinations that they will use in their home landscape. Garden themes will include a kitchen or Victory" garden, an herb garden, a medicinal garden, a garden for cut and dried flowers, a fragrant garden, and a children's garden. The Growing Center, Inc., will also set aside an acre of land for community gardens. This site will be divided into smaller plots (10 x 10 or larger) and made available during the growing season to community members who don't have the room to raise food or flowers where they live. What
Kind of Facilities Will We Have? A key part of The Growing Center, Inc., will be the activity building. This building will be approximately 5000 square feet and will house the center's office, tool storage area, rest rooms, library, and conference room. Outside the activity building will be a parking lot that will hold approximately 20 vehicles. The activity building will serve as the welcoming area for visitors and program participants. It will also hold a reference library of gardening and horticultural therapy books. The conference room will be used for meetings and indoor programs the office will hold the telephone, computer, files, and other supplies. The other vital part of The Growing Center, Inc. 1 will be the existing seven greenhouses. These greenhouses are where many of the hands-on learning and therapy programs will take place, especially during the winter.
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