Gardening Education
Holiday Fundraiser November 16-18, 2020
In 2020, there's No Place Like Home to celebrate Tulsa Garden Club's long history of gardening education and student scholarship support. A 200-person in-person event at Tulsa Garden Center is just not possible.
Tulsa Garden Club celebrates Members’ commitment to gardening education and ongoing learning. Members will receive specially-selected chrysanthemums personally delivered by the Committee, November 16-18.
Yet everyone may enjoy this VIP event without leaving your home! All the savings from travel bans and limited social activities can still benefit learning.
Charitable gifts further the Club's gardening education, programming, materials and supplies, including horticulture and landscape architecture for enrollees with Oklahoma State University and Tulsa Community College's Second Chance program at Dick Conner Correctional Center.
Give gardening education. Give thanks for:
- $300+a COVID-free safe vacation to anywhere you can imagine!
- $250 face massless!
- $150 hand-sanitizer-free!
- $100 no Zoom-ing!
- $50 forget social distancing!
This annual holiday event began as a sale of plant and organic materials decades ago and has evolved into a sold-out scholarship fundraiser. Pre-pandemic events featured 200 members and guests, catered luncheon, entertainment, silent auction and drawing for awesome prizes with proceeds benefiting scholarships, student grants and support for OSU and TCC horticulture-related programs.
Since the late 1950s Tulsa Garden Club has awarded 200+ student grants (approximately $240,000) in horticulture or landscape architecture programs from proceeds of projects, including the holiday tea.
- Tulsa Garden Club was the first Oklahoma garden club to establish an endowed fund with Oklahoma State University (OSU) in horticulture and landscape architecture in 1985.
- Tulsa Community College (TCC) students have received scholarships since 1998 and, in 2009, an endowed fund was established to support horticulture programming. TCC discontinued its own program, yet has extended horticulture education and certification through the "Second Chance" program for Dick Conner Correctional Center inmates.
Generations of Learning
Members, general public and recipients of Tulsa Garden Club scholarships and student grants have been learning for decades. Charitable gifts help learners of all ages, from all backgrounds, gain new skills.
I always come to your garden tours. Fifty years ago, I received one of your scholarships and went on to become a horticulturist. Robert
Enrollees in OSU and TCC's Second Chance programs earn degrees and certifications to equip them for long-term careers in our communities.
Charitable gifts to Tulsa Garden Club are deductible to the extent allowed by law as no goods or services are exchanged.
EIN 73-1359566501(c)(3) Oklahoma Garden Clubs, Inc. Group Exemption