Affinity Partners

American Public Gardens Association participates in a number of primary affinity programs that are available to all Association members.

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Better Homes & Garden

Complementary Better Homes & Gardens digital magazine subscription for you and your garden constituents! This benefit allows current Association Member Institutions to offer Better Homes & Gardens digital magazine subscriptions as an incentive to their members.

This offer is only valid in the United States and Canada.

  • This affinity program is a member benefit for Association Institutions to use as an incentive to attract new members to their institutions. It is not available for corporate or individual-level memberships. 
  • This subscription program provides a one-year digital magazine subscription to each person that purchases a membership from one of our member gardens that has NOT utilized the paper or digital magazine subscription through this program in the past. 
  • This program is voluntary – direct your members to fill out the online form to receive their annual digital subscription. There is not a printed subscription form available. 
  • This program is not retroactive. 
Guidelines: 
  • Your Institution must be a current Association Institutional Member. 
  • This member benefit isintended to be an incentive to increase your membership sales. 
  • Please do not encourage members who have already used this benefit in the past to re-subscribe with this offer 
What Do I Have to Do? 
  • Each participating Garden/Institution will designate a representative (or the Membership Manager). 
  • Provide this link to your members that have not enjoyed this subscription before and ask them to complete the digital form to sign up for their digital magazine subscription. 
  • Provide clear instructions: To redeem the subscription, each person must complete the digital form to begin receiving  Better Homes & Gardens magazine. Please do not complete the form for your members. Clarify to your members that their digital subscription does not happen automatically with their membership activation to your garden/institution; they must complete the form to subscribe. Please allow 6-8 weeks for processing.  
Questions: 

Please direct all inquiries to our vendor Meredith/Dot at support@emags.com. They reply within 24-48 hours, Monday – Friday. 

 

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CFRE Participating Organization

As a Participating Organization, fundraising professionals who work for gardens that are members of APGA receive a 20 percent discount on Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) initial certification and recertification. CFRE Participating Organizations promote CFRE certification to their members to support fundraising professionals in centering their work on globally accepted ethical best practices.