Selby Gardens Launches My Garden Program for Underserved Youth
Arts & Culture
SRQ DAILY FRIDAY WEEKEND EDITION
FRIDAY AUG 16, 2019 |
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Selby Gardens) has launched the My Garden program, providing underserved youth in Sarasota and Manatee County with annual memberships to Selby Gardens. The youth will each receive a yearlong household membership to Selby Gardens, allowing them to visit the Garden at any time, 364 days a year.
Households from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota County, Child Protection Center, Girls Inc., Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida, Robert L. Taylor Community Center, Unidos Now and Visible Men Academy will participate in the inaugural year of the My Garden program. My Garden program is funded by a grant from the Gulf Coast Community Foundation.
The program expands Selby Gardens’ outreach to underserved youth that began with the Family Togetherness program. Designed to introduce vulnerable youth along with their parents and guardians from Title I schools to Selby Gardens and to nature, the program provides complimentary entry to family-friendly special events throughout the school year. These events include Selby Spooktacular, Lights in Bloom Family Togetherness Night, and Family Saturday events for the Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition Series held monthly for the duration of the exhibition.
Valued at $150, the household membership benefits include free admission for up to six adults and the child. The membership will automatically renew for those children and families who come to the Garden four times during the course of their year-long membership.
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