We Love Our Donors!
Your Gift Keeps Somerville Green.
Your donation will support:
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Our yearly operating costs;
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Our ability to host Open Garden Hours, which provide Somerville residents 6-10 hours per week of free time in the garden to explore the outdoors, relax, learn, play, create or picnic;
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Our programming, which provides:
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Urban agriculture education for all
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Nature-based play for local youth, and
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A diversity of free community events.
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There are many ways to give to the Growing Center:
Online, with credit card:
By Check:
To donate by check, mail your donation to:
The Somerville Community Growing Center
P.O. Box 76
Somerville, MA 02143
Through In-Kind Donations:
We accept in-kind donations of both goods and services. The Growing Center is also in need of specific supplies and resources for our gardening, programming and Children in Nature Initiative needs. Please contact us at info@thegrowingcenter.org with questions.
Looking to Volunteer? See our Volunteer Page for details.
The Friends of the Community Growing Center is a charitable organization as described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Gifts to the Friends of the Community Growing Center are tax-deductible contributions in accordance with Code section 170. Our tax id (EIN) is 04-3397617.
We would like to acknowledge each and every one of our supporters, friends, visitors, volunteers, children, youth, and early childhood educators for all you’ve brought to the garden. The Growing Center would benowhere without the support of the surrounding community.
Introducing Songlines: The Liza Kitchell Memorial Fund
On September 26, 2024, we lost longtime volunteer and Board member Liza Kitchell to a multi-year battle with cancer. As a way to honor the dedication and many gifts that Liza shared with us, the Friends of the Community Growing Center is establishing a Songlines, a fund in her memory. When you make a contribution, the money will support programs and initiatives that nurture what Liza most loved. To do so, visit our dedicated Songlines: Liza Kitchell Memorial Fund page.
To donate by check, please make your donation to “Friends of the Community Growing Center” and mail it to: FCGC, PO Box 76, Somerville, MA 02143. Thank you so much!
A partial list of past funders includes:
Community Preservation Fund/City of Somerville, Cummings School After School Funds, Greater Boston Urban Resource Partnership, Harpley Foundation, Kendall Foundation, New England Grassroots Environmental Fund/Boston Initiative and Grassroots Fund, Somerville Arts Council, Gaining Ground in collaboration with the Greeley Foundation, Somerville Neighborhood Community Improvement Grants, Tufts Neighborhood Service Fund, and generous private individual donors.
Special thanks to the Massachusetts Cultural Council for the generous Cultural Sector Recovery Grant of $26,260 we received in 2023, as well as for event support through their funding for seasonal festivals.
Many thanks to our former fiscal agents for their assistance in our early years, including Somerville Community Access TV, the Somerville Environmental & Recycling Volunteers, the Community Action Agency of Somerville, and Groundwork Somerville.