Interested in giving to GTC?
Your financial gift, large or small, matters! Here are a few ways to give and support our work:
1. Donate online
Click Here to make a secure one-time donation. Let us know if you want to be anonymous and whether you would like to honor someone in your life.
2. Send us your contributions
You can mail any checks/money orders: Gardening the Community, PO Box 90774, Springfield, MA 01139
3. Become a Sustainer
Our Sustainer Program is a way for our friends to give a steady amount each week, month or quarter, providing a regular stream of funding for our programs. A monthly $10 contribution pays for 5 yards of high quality compost from our supplier Collins Dairy Farm. A $20 monthly contribution covers the cost of a month's stipend for one of our youth. $500/month covers 2 youth summer jobs or ag. supplies for an entire year! Let us know if you want to be anonymous and whether you would like to honor someone in your life. Click HERE to set up a secure monthly donation.
4. Host a House Party or Community Fundraiser
House parties or community fundraisers are great ways to connect with GTC staff, youth, and Board members, and to bring GTC to you! We love the opportunity to build relationships and expand the base of peoples supporting food justice, healthy food access, and youth leadership development in Springfield. Click HERE to learn more about setting up a fundraiser.
5. Help us secure items on our wish list.
These items include compost, wood chips, bikes in good condition, bike equipment, garden tools, etc. Click HERE for a full list.
DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT: Get a matching gift from your employer!
How do you get a matching gift?
1. Search online or talk with your human resource department to find out if your employer offers a matching gift program. Two good places to check are the WGBY website and Double the Donation.
2. If they do, you may need to register TSNE MissionWorks (EIN 04-2261109), our fiscal sponsor, in their system.
3. Fill out the paperwork needed, making sure to say the donation is for Gardening the Community.
TSNE MissionWorks serves as the fiscal sponsor for our organization. Their EIN# is 04-2261109.
All donations are tax exempt under their 501(c)(3) tax status.
We truly appreciate your investment in our program, its youth, and our community! Thank you!
Manage your giving account in our database:
If you have set up an account with GTC to make a contribution in the past or to get more involved in our work, this is the place where you can update or change that information.
Thanks again!
Your financial gift, large or small, matters! Here are a few ways to give and support our work:
1. Donate online
Click Here to make a secure one-time donation. Let us know if you want to be anonymous and whether you would like to honor someone in your life.
2. Send us your contributions
You can mail any checks/money orders: Gardening the Community, PO Box 90774, Springfield, MA 01139
3. Become a Sustainer
Our Sustainer Program is a way for our friends to give a steady amount each week, month or quarter, providing a regular stream of funding for our programs. A monthly $10 contribution pays for 5 yards of high quality compost from our supplier Collins Dairy Farm. A $20 monthly contribution covers the cost of a month's stipend for one of our youth. $500/month covers 2 youth summer jobs or ag. supplies for an entire year! Let us know if you want to be anonymous and whether you would like to honor someone in your life. Click HERE to set up a secure monthly donation.
4. Host a House Party or Community Fundraiser
House parties or community fundraisers are great ways to connect with GTC staff, youth, and Board members, and to bring GTC to you! We love the opportunity to build relationships and expand the base of peoples supporting food justice, healthy food access, and youth leadership development in Springfield. Click HERE to learn more about setting up a fundraiser.
5. Help us secure items on our wish list.
These items include compost, wood chips, bikes in good condition, bike equipment, garden tools, etc. Click HERE for a full list.
DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT: Get a matching gift from your employer!
How do you get a matching gift?
1. Search online or talk with your human resource department to find out if your employer offers a matching gift program. Two good places to check are the WGBY website and Double the Donation.
2. If they do, you may need to register TSNE MissionWorks (EIN 04-2261109), our fiscal sponsor, in their system.
3. Fill out the paperwork needed, making sure to say the donation is for Gardening the Community.
TSNE MissionWorks serves as the fiscal sponsor for our organization. Their EIN# is 04-2261109.
All donations are tax exempt under their 501(c)(3) tax status.
We truly appreciate your investment in our program, its youth, and our community! Thank you!
Manage your giving account in our database:
If you have set up an account with GTC to make a contribution in the past or to get more involved in our work, this is the place where you can update or change that information.
Thanks again!
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WISH LIST
We're always happy to have people donate items on our wish list.
Please give us a call to make arrangements to drop off your donations. You can reach us at 413.693.5340!
Please give us a call to make arrangements to drop off your donations. You can reach us at 413.693.5340!
- Stakes and twine for trellising plants
- Picnic Tables or Outdoor Tables
- Benches and Outdoor Chairs
- Garden Tools – hand pruners and soil knives
- Harvesting knives
- Wheelbarrows
- Seed starting supplies (soil mix)
- Germinating mats
- Bikes, new or in good condition
- Bike Helmets (new) and flashing lights
- Bike Equipment: Pumps, Bike Locks, Tubes,
- Bike Tool Kit
- Compost
- Manure
- Laptops for office
- Tents (commercial grade)
- Folding Tables (sturdy)
- Cash box
- Leaf mulcher
- Snow shovels
- Perennial berry bushes (blueberries and raspberries especially) to plant next spring
- Harvesting lugs
- Office supplies
- Projector screen
- Gift cards to purchase food and paper products for meetings and gatherings
- Gift cards for youth activities (bowling, skating)
- Sound system/speakers
- Large baskets for market displays
- Cooking pots and cutting boards
- Dry erase markers and expo spray