2020 Marvin Lunenfeld Beautification Grant Recipients Announced

The Garden Walk Buffalo Lunenfeld Beautification Grants, named for Garden Walk Buffalo’s founder, Marvin Lunenfeld, announces its 2020 recipients.

  • Claremont Community Block Club Hanging baskets and corner planters

  • Block Association of 16th St Hanging baskets and street planters

  • Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park Garden beds, barrels, and planter boxes

  • Helping Everyone Achieve Livelihood (HEAL) Front landscaping, pots at front door, mulching for street trees

  • Darwin Martin House Installation of art project to be on the grounds for a year

  • Ketchum Place Block Club Plant trees, banners for light poles, planters

  • People’s Park Renovate garden with seating and little library, new plantings 

  • Elmwood Village Association Hanging flower baskets and tree bed improvement

  • Middle Highland Block Club Sunflower plantings in barrels and hell strips

  • Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy Richmond/Ferry circle shrubs, perennials, native plants

  • Five Loaves Farms Transform the right-of-way surrounding the lot into gardens with native, edible, and culturally important plants

To view a list of all past participants, visit here.

Garden Walk Buffalo has provided more than $100,000 in Marvin Lunenfeld Beautification Grants since 2005. More than 100 micro-grants have been awarded for beautification projects – community gardens, street-side planters, hanging baskets, public garden restoration, and more – for block clubs and community groups within the Garden Walk Buffalo neighborhoods.

Interested in Applying for a Grant? Grant applications are accepted beginning in the Fall each year, with a deadline of late February. Winners are announced in the early spring of that year at a Garden Walk Buffalo Committee meeting. For questions, or help with the forms, contact development@gardensbuffaloniagara.com.

Jim Charlier