Since its inception in 2011, the Northwest Louisiana Master Gardeners have reinvested $152,400 in the community via its Community Grants Program. Every year a portion of the proceeds from annual fundraising activities – Le Tour, Plant Sale, and Bulb Sale – is distributed to qualifying non-profit and tax-exempt groups in Bossier, Caddo, DeSoto, and Red River Parishes. Prior grant recipients include:
2022
2020
2022
- Faith and Fostering
- Highland Center
- Keep Bossier Beautiful
- LSUHS Growing for Good
- MLK Health Center & Pharmacy
- Shreveport Garden Study Club
- Shreve Memorial Library
2020
- Bon Chasse DAR Chapter NSDAR
- Caddo Career & Technology Center
- Northwest Louisiana Veterans Home
- Red River Parish School Board
- Renzi Education & Art Center, Inc.
- Shreve Memorial Library
- St. George Episcopal Church
- Village of Mooringsport
- Cope Middle School
- Donnie Bickham Middle School
- Martin Luther King Health Center
- North Caddo Magnet School
- Northwest Louisiana Veterans Home
- Oakland Cemetery
- Re-Vive Vivian
- Shreveport Little Theater
- American Rose Society
- Ark-La-Tex Herb Society
- Bossier Parish 4-H Summer Camp
- Catholic Charities of North Louisiana
- Centenary College of Louisiana
- DeSoto Schools Grace house
- First Baptist Church School
- Logansport High School Future Farmers of America
- Mansfield Elementary School
- Shreveport Garden Study Club
- Shreveport Green
- Woodlawn Leadership Academy
- Bossier Council on Aging
- Oakland Cemetery Preservation Society
- MLK Health Center and Pharmacy
- Red River National Wildlife Refuge
- American Rose Society
- Bossier 4-H
- Downtown Development
- Holy Angels
- Loyola College Prep
- Martin Luther King Health Center
- Oakland Cemetery
- Shreveport Green
- Evergreen Life Services
- The Philadelphia Center
- The Salvation Army
- Town of Stonewall
- University Elementary, Caddo Parish
- Caddo Career and Technology Center
- Caddo Parish Magnet High School
- Greater New Zion M.B.C.
- Shreveport Bossier Rescue Mission
- St. James Episcopal Church
- American Rose Society
- The Food Bank of NWLA
- Interfaith Pharmacy
- Southfield School
- The Yellow House of Community Renewal International
- Shreveport Green
- Common Ground Community
- The Fuller Center for Housing of Northwest Louisiana, Inc.
- Captain Shreve High School
- Centenary College
- Cypress Area Garden Club
- Pink Ribbon Garden - Betty Virginia Park
- Village of Belcher
- Mrs. Eddie Jones West Shreveport Elementary
- Friends of the Barnwell - The Barnwell Center
- Holy Angels Residential Facility
- The Shreveport Garden Study Club - Greenwood Cemetery