Since 2009, the Greater Greenville Master Gardener Association has funded service and education programs in Upstate of South Carolina through our community grants program.
Our grants support new organizations, as well as proven programs. We fund school gardening programs, community gardens, and beautification projects as well as a host of other projects. All of our grantees encourage knowledge and promotion of gardening and horticultural education for our community.
Click here for Descriptions & Guidelines (pdf)
Click here for Application (Google Doc)
If you have questions, contact [email protected] .
Our grants support new organizations, as well as proven programs. We fund school gardening programs, community gardens, and beautification projects as well as a host of other projects. All of our grantees encourage knowledge and promotion of gardening and horticultural education for our community.
Click here for Descriptions & Guidelines (pdf)
Click here for Application (Google Doc)
If you have questions, contact [email protected] .
2025-2026 GGMGA Community Grants/Scholarship Awards
The Greater Greenville Master Gardeners Association has again completed a successful community grants/scholarships program (the two programs were recently combined). The committee met, made site visits, and reviewed the applications. Funds are being distributed to the following worthwhile projects. We look forward to future visits with these awardees and watching their projects develop, including photographs.
The Culinary Institute of the Carolinas at Greenville Technical College received a grant for three metal garden beds, soil, hose, galvanized plant markers, pruners, trowel, gloves, and seasonal seeds.
Front Porch Housing was given money for a black chain-link fence, garden soil, 50-foot hose, hose holder, 2-pack nozzle, garden shed, wood chips, wheelbarrow, shovels, hoes, weeders, gloves, and two combination padlocks.
Greer Middle College Charter High School obtained a grant for a greenhouse, circulating fan, BioGreen heater, solar kit, rain barrel with spigot and stand, vegetable seeds, soil, bags of perlite, pots, and plastic folding worktables for plants. They will use other materials—shelving, indoor lighting, watering cans, potting soil—that have been part of past projects or were donated.
Lake Forest Elementary School accepted a grant for lumber for a new raised garden bed, reinforced metal plates and screws for the bed, landscape fabric, soil, flowers for November planting, 2-outlet timer, two hoses, sprinklers, trowels, hand pruners, gloves, bulbs, shovels, and perennials for spring planting.
Nicholtown Community Garden received money for a compost tumbler, seeds for fall and summer crops, cover crop seeds, flats of cabbage, collard, pepper, and spring pollinator plants, herbs, fertilizer, soil amendments, gloves, and replacement parts for irrigation fittings.
Plain Elementary School Improvement Council was awarded a grant for a storage shed, hand tools, pots, seed starter trays, potting soil and organic soil for raised beds, seeds, labels, fertilizer, soil amendments, two collapsible buckets, and a soil test. Additionally, the grant covered registration costs for two teachers to enroll in the Clemson School Gardening for SC and a turn-key Clemson school gardening kit.
A scholarship was awarded to an individual who is enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Horticulture with a concentration in Business at Colorado State University, an online program.
The Greater Greenville Master Gardeners Association has again completed a successful community grants/scholarships program (the two programs were recently combined). The committee met, made site visits, and reviewed the applications. Funds are being distributed to the following worthwhile projects. We look forward to future visits with these awardees and watching their projects develop, including photographs.
The Culinary Institute of the Carolinas at Greenville Technical College received a grant for three metal garden beds, soil, hose, galvanized plant markers, pruners, trowel, gloves, and seasonal seeds.
Front Porch Housing was given money for a black chain-link fence, garden soil, 50-foot hose, hose holder, 2-pack nozzle, garden shed, wood chips, wheelbarrow, shovels, hoes, weeders, gloves, and two combination padlocks.
Greer Middle College Charter High School obtained a grant for a greenhouse, circulating fan, BioGreen heater, solar kit, rain barrel with spigot and stand, vegetable seeds, soil, bags of perlite, pots, and plastic folding worktables for plants. They will use other materials—shelving, indoor lighting, watering cans, potting soil—that have been part of past projects or were donated.
Lake Forest Elementary School accepted a grant for lumber for a new raised garden bed, reinforced metal plates and screws for the bed, landscape fabric, soil, flowers for November planting, 2-outlet timer, two hoses, sprinklers, trowels, hand pruners, gloves, bulbs, shovels, and perennials for spring planting.
Nicholtown Community Garden received money for a compost tumbler, seeds for fall and summer crops, cover crop seeds, flats of cabbage, collard, pepper, and spring pollinator plants, herbs, fertilizer, soil amendments, gloves, and replacement parts for irrigation fittings.
Plain Elementary School Improvement Council was awarded a grant for a storage shed, hand tools, pots, seed starter trays, potting soil and organic soil for raised beds, seeds, labels, fertilizer, soil amendments, two collapsible buckets, and a soil test. Additionally, the grant covered registration costs for two teachers to enroll in the Clemson School Gardening for SC and a turn-key Clemson school gardening kit.
A scholarship was awarded to an individual who is enrolled in the Bachelor of Science in Horticulture with a concentration in Business at Colorado State University, an online program.
We look forward to future visits with these awardees and watching their projects develop!