Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Help Us Bring the Garden to Life!
Funding opportunities will include benches, trees, garden art, planters, carved stone pavers or recognition on a Founders Plaque. Details of these will be posted soon. Major gift opportunities will include program endowments and the naming of the garden.
To find out more about how you can help please contact:
Dr. Felicity Paxton, PWC Director
(215) 898-8611
fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu
-or-
Dionne Jackson, Associate Director of Major Gifts
(215) 746-7961
dionnej@upenn.edu
Finally, you can also make a donation of any amount online. Simply select “University Life” and then “Penn Women’s Center”.
To find out more about how you can help please contact:
Dr. Felicity Paxton, PWC Director
(215) 898-8611
fpaxton@sas.upenn.edu
-or-
Dionne Jackson, Associate Director of Major Gifts
(215) 746-7961
dionnej@upenn.edu
Finally, you can also make a donation of any amount online. Simply select “University Life” and then “Penn Women’s Center”.
About The Garden
We are delighted to announce a new project: the creation of a Women’s Garden at the Women’s Center. The garden will provide a quiet space for reading, relaxing, and gathering, and will feature benches, a stone fireplace/bbq, a bird bath, a central dining table, and assorted plant beds.
The planting color scheme will be purple, gold and white in honor of the suffrage movement and its leader – herself a Penn alumna – Alice Paul. We will prioritize native Pennsylvania plants, both ornamental and edible. This garden will be open to all, but will especially nurture the personal, programmatic and social needs of Penn women.
We envisage the garden being used by:
• Penn Women’s Center groups and sororities who currently have no outdoor space on campus;
• Our alumni wishing to gather during key university weekends (i.e. homecoming, Alumni Weekend);
• Penn students enrolled in courses focusing on urban nutrition or landscaping;
• Students enrolled in local Philadelphia schools who would be invited to participate in educational programs.
The planting color scheme will be purple, gold and white in honor of the suffrage movement and its leader – herself a Penn alumna – Alice Paul. We will prioritize native Pennsylvania plants, both ornamental and edible. This garden will be open to all, but will especially nurture the personal, programmatic and social needs of Penn women.
We envisage the garden being used by:
• Penn Women’s Center groups and sororities who currently have no outdoor space on campus;
• Our alumni wishing to gather during key university weekends (i.e. homecoming, Alumni Weekend);
• Penn students enrolled in courses focusing on urban nutrition or landscaping;
• Students enrolled in local Philadelphia schools who would be invited to participate in educational programs.
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