Community
The NOTG support a variety of programs in the New Orleans area that enhance the mission of The Garden Club of America “…to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening, to share the advantages of the association by means of educational meetings, conferences, correspondence and publications, and to restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment through educational programs and actions in the fields of conservation and civic improvement.” Priority is given to funding for specific projects or incorporating well-defined objectives and timetables and promising public benefits. Since 1952, NOTG has contributed over $1 million to the greater New Orleans community.
Current Contributions
The NOTG membership approved unanimously to give financial grants to the following proposals from local civic organizations in keeping with our mission.
New Orleans City Park
Maintenance for the Founder's Fund project
Common Ground Relief Project
For restoration of 16 linear miles of LA coastline
Edible Schoolyard New Orleans
To Langston Hughes Academy to rebuild the Dreamkeeper Shed and fencing structures
Grow Dat Youth Farm
For the Eco-Campus and Biodiversity Project
Hermann-Grima/Gallier Historic Houses
For plantings in the historic courtyard and general maintenance
Louisiana Landmark Society
For repairs and renovation of a 19th c. pieux fence at the historic Pitot House
Partners for Plants
General project support
Sustaining Our Urban Landscape
For the block captain program
Tulane Garden Library
For continuing to build the collection
Past Recipients
- Audubon Nature Institute
- Butterfly Garden at Langston Hughes Academy
- Chartwell School
- Common Ground Relief Project
- Felicity Street Redevelopment Program
- FirstLine Schools Edible Schoolyard New Orleans
- Friends of Beauregard-Keyes House
- Friends of City Park
- Friends of A Studio in the Woods
- GCA Scholarship Fund
- Grow Dat Youth Farm
- Hermann-Grima/Gallier Historic Houses
- Jackson Square Gardens and Charles de Gaulle Fountain
- Latter Library Garden Conservancy
- Lazarus House Courtyard
- Longue Vue House and Gardens
- Louisiana Landmark Society
- Market Umbrella
- New Orleans Botanical Garden
- New Orleans City Park
- New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA)
- NOMA Flower Fund
- Partners 4 Plants
- Popp’s Fountain at City Park
- SLU Turtle Cove Research Station
- SPROUT New Orleans
- St. Charles Avenue Association
- Sustaining Our Urban Landscape (SOUL)
- The NOCCA Institute (New Orleans Center for Creative Arts)
- Tulane Garden Library