Dear Friend of PizzAzz,

We are very excited to announce that Pizzazz will be back this year in person at Fox Chapel Golf Club and we will be celebrating Pizzazz’s 25th Anniversary!

Save the dates: October 20th – October 22nd

We hope that we can count on your generosity and support once again at the Benefactor, Patron or Sponsor level for our only fund-raiser of the year. In addition, we are pleased to announce a special level to honor the 25th Anniversary of Pizzazz.

Monies raised at Pizzazz allow us to fund two Paula Sculley and Susan Clancy Botany in Action Fellowships granted to doctoral Botany students each year.

Once we fulfill our annual commitment to Botany In Action, remaining funds are used to provide much needed grants to non-profit organizations in Allegheny County for conservation, horticultural, environmental and educational projects that further our mission and benefit our community. A partial list of past projects is on the back of this letter.

Garden Club of Allegheny County is proud to have contributed close to $2,000,000 to Western PA non-profit organizations with our proceeds from Pizzazz over the last 25 years. Your generosity last year allowed us to provide $40,000 in grants despite our inability to hold Pizzazz because of the pandemic.

Pizzazz is going green! Invitations will be emailed this year so please provide your email address on the reply form.

We are counting on your continued support and offer sincere thanks for your consideration, Delia and Tracey Lilla Delia Egan and Tracey Reading Lilla Hillman 2021 Pizzazz Co-Chairs President, Garden Club of Allegheny County Susan and Mary Susan Boyle and Mary Krauland 2021 Pizzazz Vendor Co-Chairs

FONT IS GILL SANS GCAC uses the proceeds from its annual fund-raiser, Pizzazz, to support two Botany In Action fellowships for doctoral botany students’ research each year. In addition, in the past 25 years, GCAC has gifted almost $2 million to conservation, horticultural, environmental, and educational projects in Allegheny County.

This is a partial list of the most recent grants from the past few years. An asterisk means the organization has received multiple grants over the last 25 years.

*ALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION HOMEWOOD CEMETERY HISTORICAL FUND Funding for an ecological assessment and plan to improve In honor of the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote, and conserve areas of Hartwood Acres and support for the tree plantings at the gravesite of longtime GCAC member and installation of a rain garden at Hartwood Acres Park suffragette leader Mary Flinn Lawrence

* *LANDFORCE Support for the development of a master plan for the Harry Funds for crew members to work on projects in Clairton and a Meyer Farm parcel in McDonald, PA and aid in purchasing green stormwater project on the North Side 38.5 acres of streamside trails along Montour Trail to protect the trail system and to prevent commercial development *NINE MILE RUN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION Advancement of green infrastructure in coordination with *ASPINWALL RIVERFRONT PARK Job Corps Center Installation of a rain garden of native plants and trees to collect and utilize damaging storm runoff *PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS Funding of SCA educator for installation of backyard *AUDUBON SOCIETY AT BEECHWOOD FARMS vegetable gardens so families can grow and share crops Monies to develop a K-12 curriculum for an all-inclusive pollinator conservation program *PITTSBURGH BOTANIC GARDEN Support for the new “Sniff and Savor Garden” CAMP GUYASUTA WEATHERBUG STATION Funding for installation of a weather data collection station to *PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY allow thousands of school children to access data for science Restoration of the entrances to Schenley Park programs and to support a summer co-ed STEM science camp PITTSBURGH ZOO AND PPG AQUARIUM CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH – CARRICK Funding for an educational Pollinator Garden in honor of the Monies to install a rain garden and bioswale to address 50th Anniversary of their Docent Program flooding near the newly restored library SECOND HARVEST THE CHILDREN’S MUSEUM Funding for green space site preparation at their Sharpsburg Support of a year-long urban museum garden to benefit and facility educate economically disadvantaged students *STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION FOR GOOD PITTSBURGH Funding for a community youth program, a Point State Park Funding for tools to restore an empty lot near the Hollander Conservation Crew, and SCA crew leaders Project – an incubation space for under-served female entrepreneurs in Braddock *TREE PITTSBURGH Funding of new pavilion to integrate youth services and FOX CHAPEL PARKS CONSERVANCY educational programs into the tree nursery program Funding for native planting around the waterfall at Hardie Valley Park *WESTERN CONSERVANCY Installation of perennials and natives in 17 community GROW PITTSBURGH gardens Funding for “Edible Schoolyard Pittsburgh”, an in-school gardening program WOMEN FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT Support for purchase of air monitor equipment so students *GTECH can learn to document and assess air quality Installation of gardens on former blighted, vacant lots