A group for your organization will provide a central location for connection, discussions, and resource-sharing among your network. Plus, members of your subgroup will have access to all other groups and resources within the Kids Garden Community to expand their learning and impact!

With a group, your organization can:

• Connect with 7,000+ members and organizations to grow your network
• Build and strengthen relationships between your members
• Be part of a growing youth garden movement

Who are groups for?

A group can be created for:

• Organizations of any size who want to encourage discussion and connection among your members
• A one-time or recurring event so that attendees have a centralized place to communicate with each other
• A cohort within your organization (e.g. grantees, a project group, etc.) that needs a space for peer learning and sharing
• Many other uses! Let's chat!
  
  
  

Group Types

Basic Group

• Option to be private (only invited members can join) or public (any member can join)
• Unique discussion forum
• Unique library for resource sharing
• Option to host additional groups under one parent group
• Group admins can email members of the group

Microsite

• Custom branding and design
• Ability to create web pages within the microsite

Groups are offered for a fee to cover a small portion of the platform costs.*

*The Kids Garden Community platform and programming costs $75,000 annually. Group fees help ensure that we can keep this community free for members to use! We're happy to discuss a customized pricing option to meet your group needs.

Here's how a few orgs have used basic groups and microsites:

The American Horticultural Society hosted their virtual 2021 National Children and Youth Garden Symposium as a microsite. All session recordings were available to registrants on-demand and each session had a dedicated discussion forum. 

The Farm-Based Education Network is using a basic group to connect its network of farm educators and to expand its reach by having an open group for all Kids Garden Community members to join.

KidsGardening used a microsite to convene school food garden educators as part of USDA-funded project. The microsite contained discussions, resources, webinar events, and more.