Time to Vote for Our Charitable Projects Choice - ONLINE VOTING ONLY!
Carol Provan and Sandy Holmes
Thank you for your very generous support of SLGC’s Charitable Projects. Eight proposals were received by the CP Committee in application for our approximately $20,000 in contributions for funding from virtually all of our members. Below are summaries of the project proposals that the committee recommends to the membership for our largest grant. Please indicate which you prefer. After member voting, the committee will allocate the remaining funds among the remaining qualified applicants. All voting will be conducted online: please take a moment to read the summaries of the projects and cast your vote.
Boys Hope Girls Hope
With a mission of providing opportunities for our region’s most vulnerable and underserved children to prepare them for life success, Boys Hope Girls Hope requests support for the Summer 2020 Academy. This program is focused on environmental sustainability through the examination of food sources, community gardens, conventional versus organic farming, and includes a discussion of a youth version of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, along with a garden to table program in an on-site garden. They request our support to expand garden programming for students this summer through education on the origins of commonly eaten foods and the impact their diet has on health, the earth, and others; sources of healthy foods in their community; basic principles of planting and caring for vegetables in the on-site garden; preparation of healthy snacks; and understanding soil health/composting. BHGH requests a grant for books for this year’s students, gardening supplies, culinary supplies for garden to table, saplings, seeds, pollinators, and perennials.
Shaker Lakes Nature Center
The Nature Center request is for a portion of their plan to update, replace, and enhance the entrance area of the Center’s outdoor classroom. The proposal requests support for planting the entrance garden leading to the 50-year-old Stearns Trail where replacement of deteriorating boardwalks and bridges and the restoration of the forest habitat is planned. Specifically, they wish to re-envision this trail through the creation of an entrance garden and the restoration of a two acre area surrounding a new trailhead, including a new nature play area. Their request is for native trees, shrubs, perennials, tree labels, and deer exclusion tree cages. This project complements the proposal our club funded last year for a garden at the entrance to the All Peoples Trail.
Western Reserve Land Conservancy
This organization was founded to maintain our region’s natural resources through conservation and restoration. Their proposal to us, within their Thriving Communities project, addresses the issue of inner city blight. Through the land bank, cities revitalize by removing vacant nuisance structures. In coordination with their Reforest Our City program, which has planted 14,000 trees to date in Cleveland, WRLC wants to improve vacant lots by repurposing urban land and revitalizing neighborhood blocks. They seek to face the neighborhood problems that inner city vacant lots have often become: dumping sites, pest breeding grounds, and havens for litter and illegal activities. This specific request focuses on Buckeye, Woodland Hills and Mt. Pleasant. WRLC proposes installing trees, groundcover, landscaping, fences, and benches, with a goal of improving aesthetics, safety, community pride, and environmental health. The request is for trees and landscape plants.
Members are the source of the funds for Charitable Projects, so it is critically important for your voices to be heard. Please be sure to vote!
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