Some PA/PTAs have built school gardens to help improve school lunches, advance environmental literacy, bring children outside, provide green space at urban schools, and introduce young people to fresh, locally grown produce that they sow, harvest, and eat off the vine.
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The Partnerships for Parks Capacity Fund Grant supports community groups with small grants up to $5,000 to dedicated to parks with funding for projects to build their capacity through supporting the group’s self-awareness, ability, and sustainability.
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Citizens Committee for New York City provides micro-grants to support projects in Title I public schools. Grant programs include Neighborhood Grants for community and school improvement projects such as school gardens, after-school yoga, and school recycling programs.
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New York Agriculture in the Classroom (NYAITC) works with pre-K through middle school teachers. Through its Kids Growing Food program, NYAITC awards mini-grants to help establish or maintain school gardens. Grant recipients are also offered online webinar workshops and sharing sessions each year, and are provided education and gardening materials.
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Grow to Learn provides funding, materials, technical help, and resources for NYC public and charter schools to establish and expand learning garden programs. School gardens that register with Grow to Learn are eligible to apply for minigrants of $500 to $2,000.
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The Home Depot Foundation offers grants – up to $5,000 – to 501c organizations and tax-exempt public service agencies that are using the power of volunteers to improve the physical health of their community. Grants are given in the form of The Home Depot gift cards for the purchase of tools, materials, or services, with the goal of supporting the renovation, refurbishment, retrofitting, accessibility modifications, and/or weatherization of existing homes, centers, schools and other similar facilities.
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Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots is a youth-led community action and learning program where young people map their community to identify specific challenges their neighborhoods face, then prioritize the problems, develop a plan for a solution, and take action. Roots & Shoots offers $200 mini-grants to fund community campaigns.
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