Charitable Projects
Charitable Projects
The Charitable Projects Committee administers the Charitable Projects Fund for Shaker Lakes Garden Club. An endowment and generous annual contributions from members and friends enable SLGC to make gifts to organizations that support our mission to educate and promote activities related to environmental protection, conservation, horticulture, and gardening. Applications from the community, with endorsement by a Club member, are due on February 1 each year. The Committee weighs the merits, as well as our capacity to fulfill requests, and awards funds. In this way, we promote the organization’s missions and goals on local and national levels and enable SLGC to make a positive impact on the world.
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Garden Club of America Katharine M. Grosscup Scholarships in Horticulture
Purpose: To encourage the study of horticulture and related fields.
History: Katharine MacConnell Grosscup was a member of the Shaker Lakes Garden Club, Zone X. The Scholarship was created in 1981, in memory of Mrs. Grosscup, by her friend, Elizabeth Evans Berdan, a member of the Garden Club of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The first chairman of the committee was Mrs. Berdan’s sister-in-law, Elizabeth Whitney Evans, a member of the Garden Club of Cleveland. Applicants to the Scholarship must be rising college sophomores, juniors, seniors or Master’s degree candidates majoring in horticulture or related fields at institutions in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania or West Virginia.
The Grosscup committee is comprised of three members of the Shaker Lakes Garden Club, and three members of the Garden Club of Cleveland. All applicants are screened, interviewed and selected by the Grosscup committee in Cleveland each February, and approved by the GCA Scholarship Committee. Formerly under the aegis of the Horticulture Committee (the GCA Scholarship Committee was founded in 1989) the Katharine M. Grosscup Scholarships in Horticulture have awarded 234 scholarships since 1982.
Provisions: Awards up to $3,500 are paid directly to recipients in support of their education and research.
The Grosscup Scholarship supports young scholars from our region in their pursuit of an education in horticulture and its related fields. The Grosscup is the only GCA scholarship that requires a personal interview.