What Do You Give the Person Who Has Everything?
A gift that grows good.
This season, honor someone you cherish with a meaningful gift that grows food, health, and community – while strengthening nutrition and food equity across Southeastern Massachusetts.
The Marion Institute is a 501(c)3 organization. All donations are tax-deductible.
Gifts to Choose From:
Put a Shovel to Work: $50
A simple tool with powerful purpose. Equip Frogfoot Farm with the essentials for planting and harvesting produce for area food pantries.
Harvest & Share Basket: $100
Help stock local food pantries with fresh produce from Frogfoot Farm and Fields to Families gleaning sessions.
Grow Education Class Kit: $200
Provide a classroom with seeds, seedlings, and tools to spark hands-on learning and cultivate future food leaders.
Send Students to Frogfoot: $350
Give an elementary class a memorable visit to Frogfoot Farm. This gift covers bus transportation for students to see how their school’s raised-bed gardens reflect the work of a regional farm. Bringing lessons in farming, nutrition, and nature to life.
Support a Farmer Stipend: $500
Strengthen the local food system by supporting the farmers who make our gleaning possible. Your gift helps ensure onboarding of another regional, farm partner. Working together, we’re putting thousands of pounds of fresh, healthy produce within reach for families across Southeastern Massachusetts.
Support a Food Equity Advisor: $600
Help ensure that community voices guide our regional food system. This gift provides an annual stipend for a Food Equity Advisor—an individual with lived experience of hunger—to participate in the Southcoast Food Policy Council’s policy and program design process.
Adopt a Row: $1,000
Adopt a Row and help us grow nutritious, local food for families in need. Your gift supports an entire row’s planting, tending, and harvesting — a beautiful way to honor someone while strengthening our regional food system.
Send a Gift of Meaning:
Every honor gift includes a lovingly handwritten note on recycled, plantable wildflower seed paper — a small piece of beauty that grows long after the holidays have passed.
Inside, we share the meaningful contribution made in your recipient’s honor and the impact their gift will have in our community.
Throughout the year, your honoree will also receive occasional email updates so they can see how their gift continues to grow health equity across the region.
