Organizational Collaborations
We won’t realize our vision alone, but imagine what’s possible when we collaborate with organizations who share a kindred vision. Each of these organizations below are purpose-driven leaders in fields of our interest. Together, we are making a difference.
GCA VISION — Informed volunteers working for a beautiful, healthy planet.
Mission-Focused Organizations
Assembly of Flower Arrangers (an affiliate of NGC)
To jointly represent the United States within the World Association of Flower Arrangers (WAFA).
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Casey Trees
To promote the planning, management, and horticulture of urban forests so that fellows gain knowledge and experience in the field. (see also Scholarship Institutions)
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Center for Plant Conservation
To work together to protect the nation's rare, threatened, and endangered plants and their habitat and the wildlife they support, including support or workable science-based recovery programs for all species.
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The Garden Conservancy
To support the promotion of The Garden Conservancy’s Garden Future Summit at the New York Botanical Garden.
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National Park Service
To achieve a wide range of native plant conservation goals, including the management of threatened, endangered, rare, and medicinal species, control of non-native invasive species, and restoration of native plant communities and ecosystems.
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NYBG - Mertz Library
To collaborate on the transfer, oversight, care, and management of the GCA’s Rare Book Collection on deposit at the New York Botanical Garden’s LuEsther T. Mertz Library.
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Royal Horticultural Society
To ensure that The Garden Club of America and the Royal Horticultural Society Interchange Fellowships continues to foster British-American relations in horticulture, landscape architecture, and related areas, and to promote the exchange of information in the horticulture field.
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Save the Redwoods League
To promote the protection and restoration of redwood forests and other common interests.
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Scenic America
To work together to promote shared interests of support for legislation that fosters the creation and maintenance of scenic byways, emphasizes protection of the natural landscape and addresses the hazards of electronic billboards.
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The Smithsonian Institution
To continue the development and support of the GCA Collection at the Archives of American Gardens and The Garden Club of America Scholarship in Garden History and Design.
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Southeastern Grasslands Institute (within Austin Peay State University)
To promote each organizations' mission and other common interests.
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Weed Wrangle
To promote the education and eradication of non-native invasive plant species.
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American Public Gardens Association
The Garden Club of America Hope Goddard Iselin Fellowship in Public Horticulture
To further the study of public horticulture through experiential learning that takes place at a recognized public garden, botanic garden, arboretum, or other closely aligned public horticulture institution within the United States...
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Botanic Gardens Conservation International - US
The Keller Scholarship in Conservation Horticulture
To promote plant conservation capacity and coordination among botanic gardens, and/or public gardens, in the United States through programs of Botanic Gardens Conservation International-US (BGCI-US) in collaboration with The Garden Club of America (GCA)...
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Casey Trees
GCA Zone VI Fellowship in Urban Forestry
To advance the field of urban forestry by encouraging students to study the planning, management, horticulture and ecology of urban forests and the effect of healthy urban forests on people and the environment...
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Center for Plant Conservation
The Catherine H. Beattie Fellowship in Conservation Horticulture
To promote conservation of rare and endangered flora in the United States through the programs of the Center for Plant Conservation, Escondido, California...
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The Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
The Garden Club of America Award in Desert Studies
Promotes the study of horticulture, conservation, botany, environmental science and landscape design relating to the arid landscape...
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Desert Botanical Garden
The Garden Club of America Award in Desert Studies
Promotes the study of horticulture, conservation, botany, environmental science and landscape design relating to the arid landscape...
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Landscape Architecture Foundation
The Douglas Dockery Thomas Fellowship in Garden History and Design
To further the study of history and design in the American garden and to look to the future of gardens and their unique place in our environment...
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Missouri Botanical Garden
The Anne S. Chatham Fellowship in Medicinal Botany
To protect, preserve and expand knowledge about the medicinal use of plants, thus preventing the disappearance of plants with therapeutic potential. Providing this research opportunity for botanists can...
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Pollinator Partnership
The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator Fellowship
The Garden Club of America Board of Associates Centennial Pollinator Fellowship provides funding to study the causes of pollinator decline, in particular bees, bats, butterflies and moths, which...
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Royal Horticultural Society
The Garden Club of America and the Royal Horticultural Society Interchange Fellowships
To foster British-American relations through the interchange of scholars in horticulture, landscape architecture, and related areas and to promote the exchange of information in the horticulture field...
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The Student Conservation Association
The Sara Shallenberger Brown Garden Club of America National Parks Conservation Scholarship
The purpose of this scholarship will be to encourage studies and careers in the conservation fields, with the opportunity to protect, enhance, and gain knowledge and experience for the lasting benefit of...
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The Smithsonian Institution
The Garden Club of America Scholarship in Garden History and Design at the Archives of American Gardens
To encourage the study of garden history and design and, if possible, aid in cataloging The Garden Club of America Collection in the Archives of American Gardens (AAG) at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC...
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University of Wisconsin - Madison Arboretum
The Garden Club of America Fellowship in Ecological Restoration
The GCA Fellowship in Ecological restoration supports specialized study and research in ecological restoration, the “active healing of the land.” Thorough study and research will assist the recovery and management...
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Virginia Institute of Marine Science of The College of William and Mary
The Garden Club of America Award in Coastal Wetlands Studies
To promote, expand and enrich the body of research concerning the coast by actively supporting graduate students in the field of coastal wetlands science...
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National Tropical Botanical Garden
The Loy McCandless Marks Scholarship (an International Scholarship in Tropical Horticulture or Landscape Architecture)
To promote the study of tropical horticulture and landscape architecture...
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To promote the preservation of tropical forests by enlarging the body of botanists with field experience...
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