2011 ANNUAL REPORT - Denver Botanic Gardens

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CORE VALuE 1: sUsTAiNABiLiTy
Over $300,000 in new commitments were raised towards the construction of the Bill Hosokawa
Bonsai Pavilion and Tea Garden. Simultaneously, 2011 marked the partnership of Denver Botanic
Gardens with prominent members of the Japanese American communities of metropolitan Denver.
Dedication of this garden, including the expansion of our much loved Japanese Garden, will take
place in early summer 2012.
We continued to strengthen and affirm the important partnership with the Associates of Denver
Botanic Gardens. This body of volunteers and friends to the Gardens committed $100,000 for the
renovation of the Cheesman Gate.
Mordecai Children’s Garden’s second season was ever better than the first. To see it continue to
thrive, in 2011 we completed efforts to raise endowment dollars for Mordecai Children’s Garden
with over $1.6 million in new endowment to support the educational and horticultural programs
in the Children’s Garden.
Corporate partnerships were strong again in 2011. We welcomed new partners such as Century
Link, InColor and AquaScapes, and celebrated the continuation and growth of some of our core
partnerships with others, including uMB Bank, Perry & Co, Chipotle and Swingle, to name a few.
Looking beyond our own walls, Denver Botanic Gardens, in partnership with Sterling Ranch,
helped create low-water sustainable landscapes at a demonstration site at Allis Ranch in Douglas
County. Sterling Ranch will be Colorado’s first rainwater-harvesting community and this project will
set a new standard for water conservation in Colorado.
The Botanical Art and Illustration Program continued to thrive in 2011, now offering 133 courses
to an astounding 1,415 students. This represents a 34% increase in registrants over 2010. The
program shows no signs of slowing down.
www.botanicgardens.org 2011 Denver Botanic Gardens Annual Report
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