Registry Membership Options
Introductory Member (free)
- Receive periodic email updates about special offers and news about the Leadership Garden Legacy
- Sign up for free eBook: A Unique Path to Greatness: Eight Principles and Practices for Growing Your Thriving Leadership Garden
Lifetime Member Benefits:
- Free MP3 download of the Leadership Garden empowerment audio book U.N.I.Q.U.E.: Growing the Leader Within (regularly $24.95)
- 11% discount on all products and services. Ask about discounts on quantities of 50 or more items
- Your own profile page to share stories and network with other members
- Members only eligibility for Cultivation Grants (must be a not-for-profit, school, or institution or have a *sponsor member group)
*An individual/family member or business member can create and support a leader-friendly gardening Practice Project, but must have a non-profit group, Registry member partner serve as the grantee.
For example:
- A grandparent wants to work with a grandchild’s school to conduct a Practice Project idea that the grandparent and grandchild created. The grandchild’s school/class must become a Registry member and serve as the grantee.
- A business could sponsor a local charity's membership and collaborate on a Practice Project in their community.
Lifetime Member Category Registry Fees:
- Individual/family - $30
- Group or organization per location - $60*
- Small Business: under 50 employees - $100
- Large Business: over 50 employees - $200
*Cultivation Grants Eligible Category:
- Not-for-profit organizations
- Schools
- Institutions
A portion of your lifetime membership fee goes directly to the Leadership Garden Fund to help support the growth of the number of Cultivation Grants for members:
- Individual/family - $10
- Group or organization, per location - $20
- Businesses: under 50 employees - $40
- Businesses: over 50 employees - $60
If you would like to make a direct tax-deductible donation to the Fund, see the Patron Member information.
All membership fees are non-refundable. Registry members can unsubscribe from the community network at anytime.
Patron Member Benefits:
All Lifetime Member Benefits, plus:
- An additional, 11% discount on products and services. Ask about quantity discounts for 50 or more items.
- For each grant season, after screening by staff for project and organizational eligibility, a randomly selected group of Patron Members will form the grant committee to choose the quarterly grant recipients.
Patron Member Fee - $250 minimum donation**
**How It Works:
Individuals, businesses, or organizations support the Practice Project grant-making by making a minimum $250 or more tax-deductible donation to provide direct support to the growth of the Leadership Garden Fund:
- Patron Member donations (minimum $250) are made payable by check to: Calvert Foundation on behalf of the Leadership Garden Fund.
- Checks are mailed directly to the:
Calvert Foundation
PO Box 30084,
Bethesda, MD 20824-9948 - Patron Member donations are deposited directly into the irrevocable fund with Calvert Foundation and are therefore, non-refundable.
- A donation letter acknowledging your tax deductible donation will come directly from Calvert Foundation on behalf of the Leadership Garden Fund.
- Patron Members will receive a letter of acknowledgment and a Leadership Garden Legacy Patron Membership Certificate and access to set-up member profile
The Leadership Garden Fund is administered by the Calvert Giving Fund: The Socially Responsible Donor Fund™ of the Calvert Social Investment Foundation on behalf of the owner of Leadership Garden Enterprises, LLC.
To learn more about our chosen Fund Administrator and social investment funds visit: www.calvertgiving.org.
Leadership Garden Enterprises, LLC reserves the right to reject membership of individuals, groups, organizations, and businesses whose mission is not consistent with the eight principles and practices of growing thriving Leadership Gardens.
