Non Governmental Organization: American Community Gardening Association [ACGA]
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The American Community Gardening Association [ACGA] is a bi-national nonprofit membership organization of professionals, volunteers and supporters of community greening in urban and rural communities. The Association recognizes that community gardening improves the quality of life for people by providing a catalyst for neighborhood and community development, stimulating social interaction, encouraging self-reliance, beautifying neighborhoods, producing nutritious food, reducing family food budgets, conserving resources and creating opportunities for recreation, exercise, therapy and education.
ACGA and its member organizations work to promote and support all aspects of community food and ornamental gardening, urban forestry, preservation and management of open space, and integrated planning and management of developing urban and rural lands.
TThe Association supports community gardening through facilitating the formation and expansion of state and regional community gardening networks; developing resources in support of community gardening; encouraging research and conducting educational programs
The American Community Gardening Association [ACGA] was founded in 1979 to help gardening programs share their limited resources, and benefit from each other`s experience and expertise.
ACGA Board members answer hundreds of requests for information each year about community gardening and greening. They offer support, coach fledgling groups, and wherever possible, connect programs with specific challenges to programs which have already worked through similar situations.
Through its networking, publications [educational bulletins on a wide variety of topics, the annual Community Greening Review, quarterly newsletter The Community Gardener, etc.], slide show and an annual conference held in a different part of the country each year, ACGA:
promotes the formation and expansion of national and regional community gardening networks,
develops resources in support of community gardening and greening,
encourages research on the impact of community greening, and
conducts educational programs.
The American Community Gardening Association [ACGA] is a bi-national nonprofit membership organization of professionals, volunteers and supporters of community greening in urban and rural communities. The Association recognizes that community gardening improves the quality of life for people by providing a catalyst for neighborhood and community development, stimulating social interaction, encouraging self-reliance, beautifying neighborhoods, producing nutritious food, reducing family food budgets, conserving resources and creating opportunities for recreation, exercise, therapy and education.
ACGA and its member organizations work to promote and support all aspects of community food and ornamental gardening, urban forestry, preservation and management of open space, and integrated planning and management of developing urban and rural lands.
TThe Association supports community gardening through facilitating the formation and expansion of state and regional community gardening networks; developing resources in support of community gardening; encouraging research and conducting educational programs
The American Community Gardening Association [ACGA] was founded in 1979 to help gardening programs share their limited resources, and benefit from each other`s experience and expertise.
ACGA Board members answer hundreds of requests for information each year about community gardening and greening. They offer support, coach fledgling groups, and wherever possible, connect programs with specific challenges to programs which have already worked through similar situations.
Through its networking, publications [educational bulletins on a wide variety of topics, the annual Community Greening Review, quarterly newsletter The Community Gardener, etc.], slide show and an annual conference held in a different part of the country each year, ACGA:
promotes the formation and expansion of national and regional community gardening networks,
develops resources in support of community gardening and greening,
encourages research on the impact of community greening, and
conducts educational programs.
