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Community Projects

For more than 90 years, Country Garden Club has been financially supporting the creation and maintenance of gardens and green spaces in our community. CGC is passionate about the many ways we can steward and sustain our natural environment.

Since 1934, the Club has raised more than $750,000 for community projects supporting Perrysburg and Northwest Ohio.

The deadline for applying for a Community Project Grant is January 15 each year. Grants are then awarded each April.

Community Projects Form

Country Garden Club History of Giving

Perrysburg Composts

Historic Fort Meigs

Hospice of Northwest Ohio

$11,860 to cover the cost of 12 food waste bins at two locations in Perrysburg. Waste is being collected by GoZero.

$1,161 for soil conservation and erosion prevention.

$1,760 for front-entrance renovation and winter pots.

W.W. Knight Preserve

Wood County Parks

Toledo Day Nursery

$1,100 for boardwalk sealing.

$3,000 for two benches at the

Reuthinger Preserve Swallowtail Butterfly Garden.

$6,000 to renovate the playground at their

Stickney Avenue facility.

Way Library

Toledo School for the Arts

Timothy's Perrysburg Foundation

$4,362 for landscaping in the parking lot medians.

$7,500 for courtyard garden renovations.

$743 for new garden beds. CGC members also provided the labor.

Community Project Grant Information

• Grant applicants must be located in Northwest Ohio.
• Projects must relate to Country Garden Club's mission to promote knowledge of horticulture and conservation and to enhance our community's natural environment.
• Applications for grants are accepted year-round for the following year. The deadline for submission is January 15 of each year.
• The Community Projects Committee will contact applicants and arrange for site visits to review proposed grants.
• The Committee meets to finalize recommendations in February which are sent to the CGC Board.
• Country Garden Club members vote on the proposed grants.
• Approved grants are announced in April.
• Funds are provided to grantees when projects are complete.
• Final reports on grant progress are due to Country Garden Club by May 31 of the following year.