2024 JCMGA Strategic Plan Revised

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JCMGA Mission – To learn, practice, and teach the art and science of gardening in the Rogue Valley.

1. Goal: Enhance and Support Master Gardener Program.
2. Objective – Support Master Gardener Training through speakers and practicum experience.
   • Practicum (Program Support WG and GWG)
     • Practicum Mentors
     • Garden Buds
       • Encourage students from Class of 2024 to participate
       • Get feedback from Grace on having Garden Buds
       • Could students sit at the same table each week – at least for part of the class to build a sense of a team
     • Friends of the Gardens (COWG)
       • Put on Facebook more often
       • Put signage on canopy when doing Information Booth at events
     • Spring Garden Fair
     • OSU Student Master Gardener Class – increase size (Program Support WG)
     • Seeds to Supper (COWG and Program Support WG) Winter 2025
     • Community Education Program (Program Support WG)
     • Working Groups working together (Joint Committees)
     • Measurement of achieving goal
       • Number of people attending
       • Feedback

1. Objective – Host the Winter Dreams Summer Gardens Symposium (WDSG WG and M & T WG)
   • Via virtual
   • Most or all presentations are recorded and available for participant viewing until end of December
   • Measurement of achieving goal
     • WDSG Presentations Survey Results

1. Objective – Enhance the Use of Speakers Bureau (COWG plus all working groups)

*  Encourage members to share their knowledge with others

• Target specific topics
• Measurement of achieving goal
  • We want to collect more specific data
    • Number of speakers
    • How many presentations?
    • What is the venue of the presentation?
    • Are we working with other groups in providing this service?
    • List of topics

1. Objective – Enhance utilization of the Demonstration Gardens (GWG)

• Rethink how to clean up enhance, and maintain all Demonstration Gardens

*   Friends of the Gardens

*     Offer year-round educational tours of the Demonstration Gardens

*   Garden Club invited tours (COWG and GEC)

*  Look into paid labor (GWG) – check with Jamie Davis

 

2. Goal: Promote wide dissemination of gardening information to the Community of Jackson County
3. Objective – Ensure communication vehicles are current. (M & T WG)

• Update JCMGA website
• Improve signage
• Implement the use of QR codes
• Publish Garden Beet monthly
• Utilize PSA’s regarding JCMGA activities
• Distribute OMGA Newsletter
• JCMGA Brochure
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Targeted Surveys (use data to make decisions)
• OLLI Classes
• Become more involved with other groups – such as helping with phone bank for Public TV

1. Objective – Becoming more visible in the community. (COWG; M&T WG; SGF WG)

• Medford Streets Project
• Blue Heron Earth Day Event
• Plant Clinic
• Spring Garden Fair
• Honey and Meade Event
• JCMGA Fall Festival
• Seeds to Supper
• Include other SOREC Groups
• Spanish speaker to represent JCMGA in community
• Speakers Bureau
• Jackson County Home Show 2025

 

3. Goal: Provides Scholarships and Grants for all levels of education and community
4. Objective – Expand Grant Writing opportunities – receiving grants

• Prepare list of possible items/activities we want to do – prioritize list
• Prepare list of possible grants
  • Grants Station program – through Tech Soup (Fundraising WG)
  • Cultivating Companions Grant – $10,000 received
  • OMGA Karl Carlson Grant – $250

1. Objective – Expand Grant Writing opportunities – giving grants (Fundraising WG and COWG)

• Look into possibilities
• Community Gardens Grants (COWG)
• School Grants (COWG)

1. Objective – Scholarship Opportunities – receiving scholarships

• OMGA Joy of Gardening Send-a-Friend Scholarship (MSWG plus other working groups)

1. Objective – Scholarship Opportunities – giving scholarships

• To attend the OMGA Joy of Gardening Scholarships (MSWG plus other working groups)
• OSU Foundation Scholarship
• Reimbursement of fees for attending class – Master Gardener Educational Scholarship

4. Goal: Enhance the Value of Membership (responsibility of all working groups)
5. Objective – Defining our purpose

• Relooking at inclusivity and kindness
• Focus on volunteers
  • How do we get more volunteers and keep those we have?

1. Objective – Expand our activities

• Annual Picnic with speaker
• Tours – Troon Vineyard
• Class Reunion – maybe tied to Annual Picnic
• Volunteer Appreciation – pizza
• Demonstration Gardens volunteers – Wednesday snacks
• Keynote speaker for any activity