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The Community Projects Committee receives requests from the community or a committee of the SGC, researches and evaluates them for potential SGC funding.

Select here for Community Projects List and Map back to 1921,“The Highway of a Thousand Elms”

COMMUNITY PROJECTS
2023-2024 Community Projects Grant List select here
Roxanne Wiley, Chairman 
Evaluates grant requests from the community or from an
SGC Committee. Evaluates the funding requests and makes
funding recommendations to the Governing Board.

COMMUNITY PROJECTS

1. The Community Projects Committee solicits and reviews requests for funding of projects from the community or a committee of the SGC. All projects shall be consistent with the objects and purposes of (See Article 11, B-3)
2. Guidelines for Community Projects
   1. Benefit to community
   2. Stated financial need
   3. Opportunity for membership participation, oversight and use of membership expertise
   4. Appropriate to size and strength of membership
   5. Source of pride and identity for SGC
   6. Long term maintenance assured
   7. Opportunity for collaboration with other community organizations
   8. Educational value to the community
   9. Timeline of the project

• Deadline for the Committee to receive requests is November 1st. Any exceptions will be at the discretion of the Committee.
• All recommendations for funding made by the Community Projects Committee shall be approved by the Governing

Board. An individual project of $2,500 and above shall be approved both by the Governing Board and by the membership. A project that would cause the fiscal total of all new projects in one year to exceed $10,000 shall be approved both by the Governing Board and by the membership.

1. Funds from the Project and Charitable account shall be used to fund projects. The Finance Committee shall budget the amount of funds available to be awarded for Community Projects in the upcoming fiscal year and shall retain a budget cushion of at least $50,000 in reserve.

COMMUNITY PROJECTS Funding From 2017 (Centennial) Forward

2017
$7,000 for the design and installation of a rose arbor to replace the two magnolia trees that have been removed and relocated from the Fragrance Garden by the UW Center for Urban Horticulture.*
$30,000 payable over three years with $15,000 paid in the first year to the Burke Museum for the reimagined “New Burke” gardens.
$5,000 to the University of Washington Press for the manufacturing costs of the second edition of “Flora of the Pacific Northwest: An Illustrated Manual”.
$5,000 as “Seed Money” for the establishment of the “SGC Community Garden Fund” for the on-going maintenance of our community garden, currently the CUH Fragrance Garden.*
2018-2019
$15,000 as the final installment of the 2017 $30,000 pledge to the Burke Museum for the reimagining of the “New Burke” gardens.
$5,000 to HistoryLink/Friends of Seattle Olmsted Parks toward the publication of the new “Olmsted in Seattle” book.
$1,000 for the Conservation Exhibit at the Bellevue Botanical Garden as part of the Nature’s Poetry GCA Flower Show.*
$7,500 to the Washington Park Arboretum as a plan- ning grant for future work on the Rhododendron Glen restoration project, a potential Founders Fund Project.
2019-2020
$7,500 for YouthGrow at YouthCare in South Seattle.
$5,000 as the first installment of a 2020 $15,000 pledge to the Bloedel Reserve (Bainbridge Island) for their Summer Internship Program.
$10,000 for the Peony Garden at the Seattle Chinese Garden.
2020-2021