Green Spring Valley Garden Club

News from GCA Scholarship Committee on November 16, 2018

Thank you!  Thank you for your support of the GCA Scholarship program. Your contributions to scholarship enable scholars to realize their dreams by conducting research that is cutting-edge for conservation, horticulture, and environmental issues.  Read about The Green Spring Valley Garden Club’s 20-year legacy of support for the GCA Summer Environmental Studies Awards.

Since 1999, The Green Spring Valley Garden Club has annually funded a GCA Summer Environmental Studies Scholar. “We have met such wonderful young people who have come to tell their stories. I’m very proud of my club for doing this, and they have kept at it,” exclaims Sarah Carey, the club member who encouraged this effort within her club and former Chair of the Scholarship Committee.

Many Environmental Studies scholars have come to speak to their club, beginning with Eden Luz in 1999, whose award helped her travel to the Peruvian Andes to observe “the Effects of Transnational Agribusiness on the Indigenous Cultures.” Caitlin Campbell, a recipient in 2011, became a National Park Service Ranger developing programs to attract children to national parks and public lands.

GCA SES recipient in 2007, Marshall Morales, is now an attorney in the Environmental Practice group at Sidley Austin in Washington D.C.  He recently contacted us to say, “...I am still grateful for it. The Garden Club of America shows outstanding leadership through its commitment to these scholarships.”

Carey says that Green Spring Valley Garden Club regards its annual scholarship contribution as “seed money” for students who might otherwise never be able to pursue their passions. We want to take this opportunity to express our deep appreciation to the Green Spring Valley Garden Club for their generosity over nearly 20 years in funding GCA scholars.

More than 1,500 students have been supported by GCA Clubs and their members through the years. This effort represents a tremendous amount of research!  We are deeply grateful to GCA’s clubs and their members who contribute so generously to benefit education.  Thank you!