[Community_garden] membership drive for ACGA

[Kristin Faurest]

Dear everybody,

The ACGA is starting a membership drive, and since you all enjoy one of
ACGA's key services - the listserve - I would like to reach out to all of
you to invite you to become a member or renew your membership in the ACGA. 

With membership, you support an activity that improves so many lives in so
many different ways.  You also gain access to a wide range of practical
gardening and community organizing information, as well as great educational
materials to help get the next generation excited about gardening. ACGA
sponsors and manages Garden Mosaics and Rebel Tomato, two youth and
community-based curricula for young gardeners and teachers.

The American Community Gardening Association is funded entirely through
memberships, donations, and grants. We operate with a minimal staff and an
active volunteer board to provide the maximum for our members. We link
resources, information, and people for the advancement of community
gardening and greening, and advocate on your behalf for a secure future,
lush by your own hands. The American Community Gardening Association offers
its members an amazing array of resources and benefits that include:

• "The Community Gardener" (our quarterly printed newsletter)
• ACGA’s monthly electronic news briefs (providing valuable, up-to-date
information on grants available, advocacy efforts, workshop schedules, book
reviews, and recent research for the community gardener)
• A year's subscription to Organic Gardening magazine by Rodale Press for
new members
• An information-packed website – www.communitygarden.org  
• Advocacy for your community garden and help with finding funding and
grants, and 

Join Today!
ACGA Membership levels are as follows:
Basic: $30  	(Basic members receive all  benefits listed above and are
eligible to vote in ACGA’s Board of Directors elections)
Professional: $60 	(Professional members receive all of the benefits of
a basic member, plus receiving a copy of our membership directory)
Library: $90	(Library members receive the benefits of professional
membership and ACGA monographs)
Organization: $120	(Organizational members receive all of the benefits
of a professional member for up to four staff members,  plus discounts for
up to four Conference attendees)
Sustaining: $600	(Sustaining members receive all of the benefits of a
professional member, conference discounts for up to six attendees and “logo”
recognition in our publications.)
Corporate:  $1,200	(Corporate members receive all professional
membership benefits, conference discounts for up to ten attendees and “logo”
recognition in our publications.)
Sliding scale: $15	(Sliding Scale members receive all of the benefits
of Basic membership at a discount due to their status as “student”, “senior
citizen”, or “low income” individual. Sliding scale memberships are
underwritten by the Susan A. Thode memorial fund)

An ACGA membership is an investment with high returns. For a small
contribution, you’re making it possible for inner-city children to learn how
to grow their own vegetables. You’re helping communities in impoverished
inner-city neighborhoods develop their own green spaces. You’re supporting
projects that bring neighborhoods together. In other words, you’re helping
us realize our vision of making our world a healthy, sustainable, and
enriched place.

Thanks for joining or renewing!

Kristin Faurest, Artemisia Landscape Design
16 Tulipan utca Budapest 1022 Hungary
Tel: 36-20-9582-545
alternate email: kfaurest at hotmail.com