The Cherokee Garden Club Community Fund accepts donations from individuals and corporations throughout the community it serves.

2022 Cherokee Garden Club Community Fund Grantees:

• Atlanta Memorial Park Conservancy to create outdoor gathering spots by making sitting stools from a fallen tree and converting unused columns into a high top table.

• Boyce L. Ansley School to provide a field trip including transportation and tickets for 45 students to visit the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

• Center for Children and Young Adults to renovate and expand the Melon Hill vegetable garden.

• Cherokee Garden Library to digitize 500 photographic images of African American gardens and cultural landscapes.

• Concrete Jungle to improve soil and growing capacity with soil testing, adding organic amendments and compost, and installing an automatic irrigation system.

• Food Well Alliance to purchase garden benches, planters, outdoor tables and landscaping for the Ability Garden at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center.

• Georgia Conservancy to provide planning, support, educational materials and guide services for the “Camping 101” program for the Refugee Women’s Network.

• Global Growers Network to fund installation of critter proof fencing, heavy-duty trellises and compost for the growers.

• Historic Oakland Foundation to fund critical tree care including pruning, cabling, soil therapy and fertilization for at-risk trees.

• Park Pride to fund one Park Visioning summer intern.

• Piedmont Park Conservancy to create two new “mini pollinator gardens” featuring native perennials and shrubs.

• Skyland Trail to create the “Nature Play” Bog Garden at the adolescent campus and theTessellate Slope Potted Garden on the main campus.

• Trees Atlanta to plant native shrubs to beautify and stabilize a sloped area along the Eastside Trail Extension of the Beltline and at the Tapestry Garden in Ormewood Park.

• Trust for Public Land to purchase plants and materials to install at Miles Elementary Schoolyard.

2021 Cherokee Garden Club Community Fund Grantees:

• Atlanta Audubon Society to fund six native plant landscape design blue prints and accompanying educational information

• Atlanta Memorial Park to remove exotic invasive plants in the section of Memorial Park that is adjacent to the Haynes Manor neighborhood

• Center for Children and Young Adults to fund expansion of the garden program by installing electricity in the hoop house and chicken coop and purchasing seeds, equipment and garden shed

• Cherokee Garden Library for the acquisition of a rare two-volume work by Frederick Pursh entitled Flora Americae Septentrionalis

• Concrete Jungle to support the 2021 growing season on the farm

• Food Well Alliance to fund garden beds and benches in the Children’s Garden of Hope at Historic Westside Gardens’ Hope Garden

• Georgia Conservancy to develop a curriculum for the Refugee Women’s Network hiking group and new field guides for additional Metro Atlanta parks

• Global Growers Network to develop the Legacy Orchard into a vibrant community green space that supports the health and wealth of GGN growers

• Old Fourth Ward Community Garden to fund plants for the garden

• Park Pride to support Park Pride’s 20th annual Parks and Greenspace Conference in 2021

• Skyland Trail to assist with continued improvements for the 12 Places of Pause recovery trail

• Trees Atlanta to beautify one of the entrances to the Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail

• Trust for Public Land to purchase plants to beautify the Miles Elementary Park