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Here’s a huge “shout out” to our friends and corporate partner at GEICO, whose generous gift of $5,000 will provide important support to CGT’s garden education program and for the purchase of supplies and materials to keep our gardens thriving!  Thanks to GEICO we are now able to construct 100 Kids in Gardens education kits and acquire school supplies for these students, including bug nets, insect enclosures, compost and temperature gauges, and much, much more. Through its donation, GEICO will also become a CGT Adopt A Garden sponsor, which provides mulch, tools, and other equipment and supplies to keep our gardens green.  Thanks again to GEICO for their support of CGT’s mission and programs!

We were honored this past December with an incredibly generous gift of $25,000 awarded by the Graesser Foundation, administered by Tucson Foundations.  The grant will be used for CGT’s general operations, setting the stage for what will be a transformative chapter in our organization’s history and that builds on a comprehensive organizational assessment just completed by Evan Mendelson Consulting, also funded by Tucson Foundations. 

 The assessment evaluated CGT’s (1)General Operations and Administrative Management, (2)Diversity, Partnerships and Collaboration, (3)Board Governance, (4)Financial Viability, and (5)Resource Development, and provides the basis for developing a set of clearly defined actionable items and timeline for CGT’s continued growth and maturation this year. 

The Board and staff of CGT express our deepest thanks and appreciation to Tucson Foundations for their continued investment in our organization, and for their commitment to fostering a strong, vibrant and effective nonprofit community in Tucson.

Thank you to the Kroger Family of Companies for their grant of $10,000!  Kroger’s incredibly generous grant will fund CGT’s Adopt A Garden program to improve and rejuvenate ten of CGT’s community gardens so that their productivity and social benefits are maximized for our gardeners.  These gardens will showcase Kroger’s financial support by installing signs so that all who visit will appreciate your role in helping to make Tucson a better place in which to work and play.  The ten CGT community gardens benefitting from the grant include, Pio Decimo, Presidio, Keeling, Homer Davis, Mary Meredith, Doolen, Ventana Vista, Rincon, Highland Vista, and Blue Moon.

Deepest thanks to the Tucson Foundations, directed by the Lohse Family, for funding this year’s license renewal to Catchafire, provided through the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona. Catchafire offers worldwide access to professionals who volunteer their time and expertise to nonprofits. With help from a Catchafire expert we were able to create our new website, do a comprehensive review and revision of our Vision, Mission and Values statements, and benefit from expert advice about a wide range of issues.

The Tucson Foundation‘s partnership with the CFSA will strengthen not only CGT’s programs but those of Tucson’s entire nonprofit sector.

We’re one of 6 AZ organizations and 244 in the country to receive this award! Funding will go to our Blue Moon Community Garden to strengthen infrastructure, provide new programming, and increase outreach to Tucson House residents to build their local food knowledge and participation in Blue Moon Community Garden. Watch a video about the AARP Community Grants.

We are very grateful to our supporting organizations! Please see our full aknowledgements here!