More Ways to Give

  • People planting a garden in a boulevard as part of a community planting day

The work to protect Minnesota’s lakes and rivers, to support pollinators, and to create resilient landscapes in all of our communities starts with each of us. We are planting the seeds for a more sustainable future. Thank you for supporting our work with a gift.

Monthly Giving — Join the Taproot Team

Join the Taproot Team, Metro Blooms’ community of monthly donors, who help sustain our work. Together, we’re creating rain gardens, pollinator habitat, and climate-resilient landscapes rooted in justice.

GIVE

Like a taproot, your support reaches deep. Your monthly gift becomes part of an ecosystem that helps us grow strong roots for programs like Sustainable Landcare Training, Blooming Boulevards and Blue Thumb educational resources. Your gift supports our work in equity, environmental justice, and ecological health.

CONNECT

Tap into opportunities throughout the year with Metro Blooms! Join us for annual gatherings to meet staff and supporters, share resources, and celebrate the impact we’re making together.

GIVE

Checks

Contributions can be made payable to “Metro Blooms” and mailed to:

Metro Blooms
Attn: Gifts
3747 Cedar Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55407

A Gift of Stock or Mutual Funds

A gift of stock or mutual funds can maximize tax savings and help meet your charitable giving goals. Your financial advisor or trust officer can assist you in making a gift of stock via a direct transfer to Metro Blooms. Please email Development Director Jennifer Foth or call us at 612-263-8520 so we know about your transfer and can properly receipt and designate your gift.

Donor-Advised Fund

A donor-advised fund (DAF)  allows you to combine favorable tax benefits with the flexibility to support your giving. You can recommend a contribution to Metro Blooms from your donor-advised fund.

Metro Blooms Tax ID: 41-1358663

Qualified Charitable Distribution from your IRA

Starting at age 70-1/2, you can make a qualified charitable distribution from your traditional IRA. This may reduce the taxable portion of your annual required minimum distribution.

To qualify:
  • You must be 70½ or older at the time of the gift.
  • Distributions must be made directly from a traditional IRA account by your IRA administrator to Metro Blooms. Please contact your plan administrator to initiate the transfer.
  • No charitable deduction may be taken, but distributions may qualify for all or part of the IRA owner’s required minimum distributions.
  • Gifts from donor advised funds, 401(k), 403(b), and other retirement plans do not qualify.

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Legacy Gift

Provide a lasting legacy for the environment by naming Metro Blooms in your estate plan. Your future gift supports Metro Blooms’ mission over the long term.

You can name Metro Blooms a beneficiary of your:
  • Will or Trust
  • Retirement Plan Asset
  • Donor Advised Fund
  • Insurance Policy
“I am very concerned about the effects of the climate crisis on sustainability of life on earth, for all creatures great and small.  Thinking globally and acting locally, I have watched Metro Blooms grow and evolve for going on twenty years.  Metro Blooms’ work is novel and unique in my experience — marrying science, with grass-roots outreach and carrying out essential collaboration with public and private entities — and so I believe it’s the non-profit organization that I want to support as a legacy.”
— Lois Eberhart, former board member and retired City of Minneapolis Public Works staff

In-Kind Contribution

From time to time, we need equipment, supplies, gift cards and other in-kind contributions. We gratefully accept goods and services that support our mission. Please contact us with your questions and ideas.

For more information, please contact Development Director Jennifer Foth or call us at 612-263-8520.

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