In addition to the many hours spent on club projects, the Calvert Garden Club made the following cash donations to support community organizations during the April 2023 – March 2024 fiscal year.
Theme/Focus: Designing landscapes for beauty and Conservation
| Organization | Purpose | Amount Awarded |
| Christmas in April | Christmas in April Calvert County Inc. is a non-profit organization that, in partnership with the community, repairs and improves houses and other physical structures to ensure that low-income persons live in warmth, safety, and independence. | $300 |
| Marine Museum Solomons Island | The Calvert Marine Museum is a public, non-profit, educational, regionally oriented museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, research, and interpretation of the culture and natural history of Southern Maryland. The museum is dedicated to the presentation of three themes: regional paleontology, estuarine life of the tidal Patuxent River and adjacent Chesapeake Bay, and maritime history of these waters. This grant is intended for planting a Native Garden to benefit wildlife. | $750 |
| Project Echo | Project Echo provides shelter for the homeless and chronically homeless. This grant is to be used to plant ground cover on the hill adjacent to the Parking lot to assist with erosion control. | $1000 |
| Project Linus | Project Linus knits and supplies blankets for needy children. | $125 |
| Calvert Animal Welfare League(CAWL) | CAWL is an all volunteer, no-kill shelter in Prince Frederick. This donation will be used for food and medication. | $100 |
| Huntingtown United Methodist Church – Empty Tummies Program | This program provides food for hungry babies and children | $125 |
| Natural Disaster Fund | FGCMD request | $60 |
| Penny Pines | FGCMD request | $68 |
| TOTAL | $2528 |
In addition to the many hours spent on club projects, the following cash donations were made during the April 2022 – March 2023 year by the Calvert Garden Club to support community organizations.
Focus: Create
| Organization | Purpose | Amount Awarded |
| Afghan WomensFund | a non-profit organization based in Baltimore, MD. AWF supports several grassroots organizations that assist widows and children for education, empowerment for women, and health issues, thereby helping to mitigate the deplorable conditions under which they are forced to live. 100% of all donations go directly to the assisting organizations. | $500 |
| Promise Landing Farm | In Upper Marlboro, MD, for supplies for a Community Giving Garden project that grows food to donate to local food banks. PLF is a non-profit, inclusive equestrian facility where people of all ages and abilities can gather and share a love of horses. In the process, they gain an understanding of themselves and others. Adults with PTSD, children with autism and other delays have benefitted from PLF. | $250 |
| Windy Hill Middle School | purchase one of seven needed KitchenAid standing mixers for use by students in the Family and Community Science Classes and in the after-school Culinary Club Activity. Five mixers have been obtained from donations by other organizations, and the two educators who teach/sponsor these classes need two more to provide for smaller work groups, thereby ensuring safe supervision while equipment is in use. The mixers were chosen specifically for their ability to withstand multiple uses per day for many years. | $640 |
| American Land Chestnut Trust | To create a meadow of native grass and flowers that would convert a manicured lawn that requires frequent mowing into a natural area that would attract local wildlife, provide nesting structures, and provide carbon sequestration on that area. | $400 |
| Calvert High School Garden Club | Seed money to create and maintain spaces of natural beauty on the campus and to plant three existing raised beds with edible winter-sown crops. This is the first year of the club’s existence. | $500 |
| Patuxent High School Environmental Club | To create a green wall and a native pollinator garden on the PHS campus. The goal of this project is to educate and encourage environmental awareness in the school community. | $1000 |
| Tidewater School | For a project to create an extended growing season that will augment an existing cooking program with fresh herbs during the school year. This will provide opportunities to participate in the planting-to-harvest sequence and understand the farm-to-table concept. The bulk of the funds will be used to purchase a reusable (for many years) 8’x2’ raised bed and detachable cold frame. | $1000 |
| Natural Disaster Fund | FGCMD request | $60 |
| Penny Pines | FGCMD request | $68 |
| TOTAL | $4418 |
During Covid 19 Pandemic, there was no Theme/Focus and no Grants, but Donations continued.
2020-2021
| Organization | Purpose | Amount
Awarded |
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| Ladies of Charity (Associated with St. Anthony’s Church in North Beach) | The Ladies operate a food pantry, provide personal care items not covered by food stamps, operate a seasonal fresh food distribution, provide holiday meals to pantry clients, provide back packs and school supplies for children of clients, organize and distribute Christmas gifts for children of clients, provide emergency financial assistance to the poor. | $1,000.00 | |
| SMILE (Associated with seven local congregations) | An ecumenical community outreach ministry committed to service. The charity is comprised of seven churches in southern Calvert County whose purpose is to establish and operate an ecumenical ministry to enable people of all denominations to work together to provide food, clothing, and other forms of assistance and support for those in need. | $1,000.00 | |
| Natural Disaster Fund | FGCMD required | $60.00 | |
| Penny Pines | FGCMD required | $68.00 | |
| TOTAL | $2,128.00 | ||
You may check past contributions by visiting the Archived page for Support to Community Organizations
Support to Community Organizations for 2018-2019
Theme: Cultivate our Garden Club
In addition to the many hours spent on club projects, the following cash donations were made during the April 2018-March 2019 year by the Calvert Garden Club to support community organizations.
| ORGANIZATION | PURPOSE | AMOUNT AWARDED |
| Farming 4 Hunger | To purchase a Tower Garden for hands-on education about living healthy, local agriculture, and giving back to the community in Calvert County | $1000.00 |
| All Saints Episcopal and Broadview Baptist Church | To maintain the flower, fruit, and vegetable garden as a living laboratory for academic work in youth group classes. | $750.00 |
| Penny Pines | FGCMD required | 68.00 |
| Natural Disaster Fund | FGCMD required | $60.00 |
TOTAL $1878.00
April 2017 – March 2018 year by the Calvert Garden Club to support community organizations:
| 2017-2018 Mini Grant Awards Focus: Planting Calvert from River to Bay |
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| Organization |
Purpose |
Amount Awarded |
| All Saints Episcopal and Broadview Baptist Church Youth Groups | To build a flower, fruit and vegetable garden as a living laboratory for academic work in the classroom. | $1000.00 |
| SUB TOTAL | $1,000.00 | |
| 2017-2018 Charity Donations |
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| Organization | Purpose | Amount Awarded |
| Penny Pines | FGCMD required | $68.00 |
| Natural Disaster Fund | FGCMD required | $60.00 |
| Head Start Calvert County | Teaching the children about gardening; raising vegetables and planting saplings. | $50.00 |
| SUB TOTAL | $178.00 | |
| TOTAL | $1178.00 | |
April 2016 – March 2017 year by the Calvert Garden Club to support community organizations:
| 2016-2017 Mini Grant Awards Focus: Beautifying Calvert County |
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| Organization | Purpose | Amount Awarded |
| Tidewater School | To build a flower, fruit and vegetable garden as a living laboratory for academic work in the classroom. | $850.00 |
| Mt. Harmony Elementary | Native plants to increase awareness & extend learning to outside the classroom | $480.00 |
| TOTAL | $1,330.00 | |
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2016-2017 Charity Donations |
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| Organization | Purpose | Amount Awarded |
| Penny Pines | FGCMD required | $68.00 |
| Natural Disaster Fund | FGCMD required | $60.00 |
| Project Echo | For upkeep/maintenance and additional needs for the Homeless Shelter. | $320.00 |
| The Calvert Library | To refurbish planters donated by Calvert Garden Club, soil and plants | $100.00 |
| TOTAL | $548.00 | |
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2016-2017 Landscape & Conservation |
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| Organization | Purpose | Amount Awarded |
| Calvert Collaborative for Children & Youth | For Earth Day Blooms Project. Bringing students and the community together to beautify the Boyd and Margaret Shields King Park. | $1000.00 |
| Flower Boxes for Hospice | Half of the cost of self-watering flower boxes installed at the Hospice | $500.00 |
| TOTAL | $1500.00 | |
April 2014 – March 2015 year by the Calvert Garden Club to support community organizations:
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2014-2015 Mini Grant Awards |
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| Calvert Marine Museum -Children’s Maritime Garden (For plants and planting materials) | $1,000 |
| Annmarie Garden Superheroes of Recycling (for rolling composter) | $500 |
| CNS Flag Pond (repair eroded picnic area) | $500 |
| CNS Kings Landing (seeds, planting for meadow maze) | $500 |
| Eagle Scout Matt Koelbel (expansion of CRB rain garden boardwalk) | $300 |
| TOTAL | $2,800 |
In addition we donated charity contributions:
| 2014-2015 Charity Donations | |
| Penny Pines | $68 |
| Natural Disasters Relief Fund of National Garden Clubs | $60 |
| Community Med. Center | $135 |
| Humane Society | $100 |
| SMILE | $200 |
| St. John Vianney | $200 |
| Historic Sotterly | $100 |
| College of So. MD | $100 |
| Calvert Hospice | $150 |
| Rawlings Conservatory Palm House Doors | $200 |
| TOTAL | $1313 |
2013- 2014
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2013-2014 Mini Grant Awards |
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| American Chestnut Land Trust | $300.00 |
| Battle Creek Nature Education Society | $1000.00 |
| Boy Scout Troop 347 | $100.00 |
| Ruth Miracle Group Home | $200.00 |
| Southern Calvert Land Trust | $1,000.00 |
| TOTAL | $2,600.00 |
In addition, we donated charity contributions:
| 2013-2014 Charity Donations | |
| Penny Pines | $68.00 |
| Natural Disasters Relief Fund of National Garden Clubs | $60.00 |
| Washington Daffodil Society | $40.00 |
| Sotterley Plantation | $100.00 |
| Project Echo | $161.00 |
| Calvert Library Foundation | $50.00 |
| TOTAL | $479.00 |
2012-2013
In accordance with our goals we support a number of projects and organizations. During our 2012-2013 year we supported the following organizations through financial assistance and voluntary services provided by our members.
American Chestnut Land Trust
Anne’s Circle (Annmarie Garden)
Azalea Society of America
Battle Creek Cyprus Swamp
Calvert County Library Foundation
Calvert Farmland Trust
Calvert Hospice
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
National Garden Clubs
—- Penny Pines
—-Disaster Relief Fund
Friends of the One Room Schoolhouse
Friends of the Wallville School
Hammond Harwood House
Historic Sotterley
Jefferson Patterson Park
Project Echo
Southern Calvert Land Trust
Washington Daffodil Society
Calvert Garden Club 