Join the Native Plants Community for their Annual Meeting and Town Hall to discuss current issues and ideas in the world of native plants.  

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All Nationally Accredited Plant Collections™ holders, peer reviewers, and others interested in applying for accreditation through Plant Collections Network were invited to attend our annual Forum. We celebrated our successes, shared future plans, then...

Join us as we share the results of a 2021 study of 500+ cultural professionals! Since the escalation of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital programming has taken on new importance and prominence across museums and cultural institutions. Many organizations...

Is your garden disaster-ready? We can help! Our new online training provides practical information you can use for building disaster readiness at your garden. Learn the key steps for disaster planning through videos and interactive exercises. Download...

The Development & Membership Community welcomed new community leadership, reflected on events of the last year and discussed the way forward. 

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Join the TIPS Community for their Annual Meeting and Town Hall to discuss current issues and ideas in the world of technology and innovation.

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Join the Small Gardens Community for their Annual Meeting and Town Hall to discuss current issues and ideas in the world of small gardens.

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Walk with an Arborist programs at the University of Maryland's Arboretum and Botanical Gardens started with a New Year's Resolution from one staff member to walk more. Being a certified arborist, she thought perhaps other staff members across UMD would...

Join Alexis Bacon, Coordinator of the Sustainability Index, to learn more about sustainability in public gardens. We'll address some of the key ways that gardens are championing sustainability in preparation for our upcoming sustainability webinar...

Many organizations seek to implement IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) initiatives by diversifying representation through hiring or bringing onboard individuals who represent the ethnic group, gender, or age group they lack within...

Join the Emerging Professionals Community for their Annual Meeting and Town Hall to discuss current issues and ideas in the world of emerging professionals.

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Join us for our June 2021 Volunteer Community joint Town Hall and Annual Meeting!   

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The Plant Taxonomy & Nomenclature and Plant Collections Communities teamed up to host our joint Town Hall meeting. We welcomed our incoming Community Chairs, shared progress and outcomes from our annual projects, and charted a course for the year...

Annual Community Initiatives & Goals Check-In

Join the Food & Agriculture Community to meet new leadership and learn about exciting opportunities! Join in the discussion about the problems, solutions, and unknowns of the...

The Finance & Operations Community establishes a forum for Chief Financial Officers, Chief Operating Officers, and other operations professionals to get to know one another, share best practices, benchmark key features of particular interest to...

As volunteer managers, we understand the value and importance of our volunteers, but how do you effectively convey this to your staff, funders and community?

This 60 minute session was designed to help you align the importance of your volunteer...

In the first webinar, Getting Started with GIS, we looked at the value of GIS for public gardens and how you can start down the path to using this technology to support your institution. In this webinar, users will see demonstrations that dive deeper...

Many species of birds, bees, and other pollinators face a precarious future in our urbanizing landscapes. Biodiversity is threatened at local to regional scales by habitat degradation. But there is some hopeful news: homeowners, individuals,...

Join Kristie Webber, Education Community Chair and Gabe Tilove, Vice-Chair for the May Education Community Town Hall Meeting. This session starts with announcements and updates from the Association and the Education Community. Then the group moves into...

The Western Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA), in partnership with Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Intermountain West Joint Venture (IWJV) and other conservation...