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Flamingo Gardens Announces Receipt of The Community Foundation of Broward’s 40 for 40: Spread the Love Grant

Davie, Florida – Flamingo Gardens is proud to announce that the Flamingo Gardens’ Eco-teers are a proud recipient of the Community Foundation of Broward’s 40 for 40: Spread the Love Grant.
To celebrate its 40th Anniversary, the Community Foundation awarded a total of $400,000 to 40 Broward County nonprofits, investing in projects and initiatives that make life in Broward better and supporting innovative and impactful opportunities for nonprofits to help our community.
Among the eligibility requirements for the grant was a call for creative ideas to incorporate the number 40, while staying true to the organization’s mission. In celebration of the Community Foundation of Broward’s 40 years and their inaugural funding of the Flamingo Gardens’ Eco-teers, they will install 40 rain barrels across the county in their honor. Over the course of the next year, the Eco-teers will identify and secure placement for 40 rain barrels at community gardens, schools, businesses, and non-profits throughout Broward County. Materials will be provided at no cost to the partner agencies, and the members of the Eco-teers will install each of the rain barrels and provide training and routine maintenance.

Conservation of water via rain barrels is important to fostering sustainable water management practices and mitigating environmental impacts in communities. By capturing and utilizing rainwater, rain barrels significantly contribute to several key benefits such as reducing costs for both household and commercial water usage, preventing drought, decreasing resilience on water municipalities, preventing pollutants due to runoff, and reducing flooding. By far the biggest impact this project will have will be in terms of educating the public. The long-term goal of the project is to give back to the community, monitor water usage vs. water conservation efforts, and track where larger-scale adjustments can be made.

Like all Community Foundation grants, this new anniversary-themed wave of support is made possible by the dedicated Fundholders who partner with the Foundation to create charitable funds to fuel their philanthropy. The Community Foundation now shepherds 532 charitable funds and over 40 years they have provided more than $190 million in support for: student achievement, the arts, career readiness, seniors in need, HIV/AIDs prevention, equity and social justice, environmental resilience, health care, affordable housing, disaster relief, empowering nonprofits and much more.

Flamingo Gardens is grateful to the Community Foundation of Broward for its on-going support of projects and programs and looks forward to carrying out this new program – Celebrating Sustainability – 40 Rain Barrels for Broward – in their honor.

If you would like more information on joining the Eco-teers, or if your school, small business, or non-profit is interested in receiving a rain barrel, please contact Ashley Vieria at [email protected].

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