San Francisco Orchid Society
Conservation Grants and Donations
| 1999 | $32,000 | SFOS secured funds from Stanley Smith Horticulture Trust to support $32,000 grant to Douglas W. James to study use of Oryzalin vs Colchicine for orchid chromosome doubling. |
| 2003 | $400 | Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens - towards podium for auditorium |
| $1,500 | Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - Strybing Arboretum Society - towards orchid books and periodicals | |
| $1,000 | UC Berkeley BG Orchid Collection Fund | |
| $3,867 | SF Conservatory of Flowers (Campaign to restore damaged building) | |
| $5,000 | Scholarship and supplementary funds to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Horticulture & Crop Science Department | |
| $500 | Orchid Digest Jack A. Fowlie Color Fund on behalf of Anna Chai in lieu of fee from opportunity tables | |
| 2004 | $7,500 | scholarship to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Horticulture student |
| $2,000 | SF Conservatory of Flowers (SF Parks Trust) | |
| $4,700 | SF Botanical Garden Society at Strybing Arboretum | |
| $500 | UC Berkeley BG Orchid Collection Fund | |
| $300 | AOS - from Dr. Gerardus Staal in lieu of speaker's fee | |
| 2005 | $7,500 | Scholarship to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Horticulture student |
| $3,500 | UC Berkeley BG Orchid, Fern & Carnivorous Plant Exhibits | |
| $1,500 | Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society | |
| $1,500 | SF Conservatory of Flowers - orchid fund - ""Orchids: The Many Faces of Beauty"" on exhbit 11/3/2005 - 02/26/2006 | |
| $150 | SF Conservatory of Flowers (SF Parks Trust) | |
| 2006 | $7,500 | Scholarship to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Horticulture student Ryan Guillou - help manage orchid production greenhouse & retail sales display area and learn about the propagation, production, display and marketing of orchids under faculty mentor David Hannings |
| $1,000 | SF Conservatory of Flowers books to Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society | |
| 2007 | $7,500 | Amy Lomeli (Cal Poly Scholarship and recognition by Mark Leno) |
| $1,000 | Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society | |
| $1,000 | SF Conservatory of Flowers | |
| $500 | Pacific Central Judging Center AOS | |
| 2009 | $400 | Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society |
| $10,000 | Cal Poly SLO Horticulture program / scholarships | |
| $2,000 | Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA) | |
| style="vertical-align: top"$1,400 | SF Conservatory of Flowers | |
| 150 | AOS Pacific Central Judging Center | |
| 2010 | $500 | Blaine Marchant's Goodyeara research - U Puget Sound in Tacoma WA USA |
| $5,000 | Cal Poly SLO Horticulture program / scholarships | |
| $100 | Pacific Central Judging Center AOS | |
| 2011 | $500 | Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden |
| 2012 | $3,000 | Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA) |
| $250 | International Phalaenopsis Alliance on behalf of Maynard Michel donated his speaker fee | |
| $1,500 | Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society | |
| 2013 | $1,500 | Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society |
| $1,000 | In kind orchid plants donated to SF Conservatory of Flowers from POE 2013 | |
| 2014 | $3,000 | Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA) |
| $2,450 | Mr. Pradhan from Nepal - �Effective education and outreach program for ecology and conservation of threatened orchids in Godavari- Phulchowki mountain forest, Kathmandu Nepal� | |
| $2,290 | UCBG Berkeley | |
| $2,290 | SF Conservatory of Flowers | |
| 2015 | $2,000 | SF Conservatory of Flowers |
| $3,017 | UCBG Berkeley | |
| $1,500 | Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society | |
| 2016 | $3,000 | Kickstarter - Orchid book fund - SFOS covered the costs of editing, layout, printing and shipping 1000 copies of Bay Area Guide to Orchids and their culture by Mary Gerritsen - to recover some of these costs: 47 Kickstarter backers pledged $3,820 |
| 2017 | $650 | Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA) |
| 2018 | $150 | SF Conservatory of Flowers |
| 2019 | $500 | Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society |
| $1,000 | CCSF Horticulture program student scholarships ($500 each to Nikki Davidson & Yanqiao Li) | |
| $1,000 | In kind orchid plants donated to SF Conservatory of Flowers from OITP 2019 | |
| $1,500 | Jason Miller - Genetic diversity of Cypripedium arietinum within Wisconsin | |
| 2020 | $2,500 | Jis Sebastian - conservation research grant - Reproductive ecology of Critically Endangered terrestrial orchid, Paphiopedilum druryi (Bedd.) Stein in the Agasthyamalai hills, southern Western Ghats, India |
| $1,000 | CCSF Horticulture program | |
| $1,000 | Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA) | |
| $500 | Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society | |
| $500 | SF Conservatory of Flowers | |
| $200 | UC Botanical Garden in Berkeley - Lew Feldman in lieu of SFOS March 2020 speaker fee (last in person SFOS meeting before COVID-19 pandemic lockdown) | |
| 2021 | $1,000 | Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA) |
| $500 | Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society | |
| $3,500 | CCSF Jean Lee SFOS education & scholarship fund Steven Brown (Director and Chair of the CCSF Environmental Horticulture and Floristry (EH&F) Department) ($1500 from SFOS + $500 from Pleurothallid Alliance Group; $575 from Sherry Bridygham; $500 from Carol Zoltowski; $250 from Ron Parsons; $100 from John Leathers & Bob Hamilton; $25 from Mary Gerritsen, $25 from Kay Klumb, as well as $25 from Terry and Margaret Boomer) | |
| 2022 | $5,000.00 | OCA Dracula Reserve Land Purchase 2022 SFOS Match (+21 donations from 19 individuals) |
| $500 | Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society | |
| $1,000 | In kind plant donation to SF Conservatory of Flowers at OITP 2022 | |
| 2023 | $2,500 | Fanuel Kawaka "Developing a Community Conservation Strategy for Tridactyle cruciformis, an Endangered Epiphytic Orchid in Mau Forest Complex, Kenya" |
| $2,000 | Donation to help relocate the Rudolf Jenny library from Switzerland to Lankester Botanical Gardens in Costa Rica. | |
| $1,200 | Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA) | |
| $2,000 | CCSF Trust / Jean Lee SFOS education & scholarship fund EH&F Program c/o Steven Brown | |
| $500 | Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society | |
| 2024 | $1,780.00 | Karma Choden full funding of "Diversity, ecology and conservation of rare and endangered orchid Cypripedium himalaicum Rolfe in Forest Management Unit, Zonglele, Paro, Bhutan" |
| $1,500 | In kind plant donation to SF Conservatory of Flowers at OITP 2024 | |
| $2,500 | Fanuel Kawaka full funding of "Assessment of the distribution and host-species associations of the vulnerable Leopard orchid (Ansellia africana) in Kenya" | |
| $500 | Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society | |
| $1,000 | Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA) | |
| 2025 | $2,500.00 | Katharine F.E. Hogan, PhD, Director of Conservation at Laurtizen Gardens (Omaha, NB) to conduct work on conservation collections of Spiranthes cernua (Nodding Ladies’ Tresses) |
| $1,500 | CCSF Trust / Jean Lee SFOS education & scholarship fund EH&F Program c/o Steven Brown | |
| $1,500 | in kind plant donation to SF Conservatory of Flower | |
| $500 | Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture - San Francisco Botanical Garden Society | |
| $1,000 | Orchid Conservation Alliance (OCA) |
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