Garden Pool began in 2009 as one family’s backyard project and quickly evolved into a movement. Ten years later, Garden Pool is an internationally-recognized charitable organization and has over 1,700 local community volunteers in the Phoenix area. After partnering with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Garden Pool Founder Dennis McClung was given the title of Goodwill Ambassador for Sustainable Development in recognition of GP’s impact on the lives of people all over the world.

Monetary Donations

Garden Pool needs monetary donations to help Garden Pool continue to help others. We are seeking tax-deductible charitable monetary donations to help us give back to the community. Here is a link to our letter of federal recognition as a charitable non-profit from the IRS. Please donate below to help GP do what we do best. Thank you for your support!

Garden Pool’s mission is to continue to bring innovative and meaningful sustainable solutions to local and global communities, including:

• the Climate Smart Farm, a self-sustaining ecosystem to grow food with 98% less water
• the Seed Library Program, providing 4.5 million people with access to free garden seeds
• 3D printing and sustainable manufacturing
• 3D design workshops to teach the public how to design their own resilient food systems
• disaster recovery in countries impacted by the effects of climate-change

Gifts in kind

Another way to support GP is through gifts of tangible personal property, or gifts in kind. When a gift relates to Our Mission, you may be eligible for a deduction equal to the full fair market value of the item.

Gifts-in-kind include:

GP Library books or seeds
Professional labor
Computer & office equipment
Gardening & construction supplies or tools
Facility or equipment rentals
Automobiles
Furnishings
Precious minerals
Livestock or fish
Real Estate
Security equipment
Machinery

How are Gifts-in-Kind valued and accounted for?

• Donors submit a form listing gifts and their value.
• Donor will receive a thank you letter acknowledging the donation.
• GP accounts for gifts-in-kind in their bookkeeping by assigning a value for what they would have had to pay for the materials or labor.
• The donor is responsible for assigning a fair market value to the gift-in-kind for their own tax purposes.

For more information about ways to give gifts in kind, please contact us.

Amazon Wishlist

Help GP by donating what we need from Amazon.com. Here is our Amazon Wishlist: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/3M5HIA2U5LGKJ/

Amazon Smile

Shop on Amazon and Garden Pool will receive a donation through Amazon Smile. Click here to shop on Amazon Smile and help support GP.

Fry’s Food Stores

Shop at Arizona Fry’s Food Stores and help support Garden Pool. Click here to enroll in Fry’s Community Rewards.