Edible Garden – Marin Art and Garden Center

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Second Annual Edible Garden

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 5 PM–8 PM

Please join us for this Second Annual roaming culinary adventure. Explore our gardens, enjoying delicious cuisine and libations from local chefs, wineries, and purveyors. Enjoy botanical cocktails from the Garden, live music, and an art walk.

As the sun sets, your evening culminates with heartier tastings and sweet treats around beautiful tables under the bistro lights.

Proceeds from Edible Garden will:

Keep our gardens beautiful and free • Maintain our historic buildings • Fund the Garden School Scholarship Program, school materials and extracurricular activities for the students • Allow us to broaden and expand programs and art exhibitions throughout the year for all.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Ticket sales close September 11 at noon

To allow you to enjoy the experience of Edible Garden without interruption, the event will not include a fundraising appeal or auction component. Please consider contributing as a sponsor or making a gift as a Friend of the Garden now, and savor the evening as a supporter of these beautiful surroundings.

Enjoy scrumptious culinary tastings paired with libations

from our local food and beverage sponsors:

Enjoy scrumptious culinary tastings paired with libations

from our local food and beverage sponsors:

Edible Garden Event Committee:

Jennifer Ames

Nina Barry

Kendra Bolt

Robin Donoghue

Diane Doodha

Katie Eulenstein

Hilary Foster

Stacy Nelson

Ellin Purdom

Pam Scott

Ali Stillman

Thanks to all who have already joined as sponsors:

Jennifer Ames

Nina & Piers Barry

Jessica Fairchild & Kai Broms

Joey Buckingham

Pat & Jay Cahill

Dudley & Michael Del Balso

Amie Bosell-Kennett & Greg Kennet

Robin Donoghue

Diane & Frank Doodha

Katie & Max Eulenstein

Stephanie & Andy Evans

Hilary Foster

Allison & Dave Friedberg

Bob & Robin Mayer

Stacy & Mark Nelson

Jan & Thomas Ross Perry

Ned & Ellin Purdom

Marcia Skall

Media Sponsors:

@thespoonlist

IRS Guidelines for Gifts from Donor Advised Funds to Support MAGC Events
Thank you for your interest in giving to the Marin Art & Garden Center events from your Donor Advised Fund (DAF) or Family Foundation.
We sincerely appreciate your generosity and support!
To ensure your gift follows the current IRS guidelines for DAF/Family Foundation support of an event, we would like to share the below guidelines with you.
Raffle tickets, tickets to galas and other special events, auction items, and benefits conferred in connection with a DAF/foundation grant are not permitted.
IRS has specifically ruled that fair market value associated with fundraising events cannot be separated, a practice known as “bifurcation.”
For example, with Edible Garden, if the price of the ticket is $200 and the FMV fair market value (non-tax-deductible amount) is designated to be $50, the donor must pay from sources other than her DAF/foundation for the full value of the ticket ($200) and not just for the non-tax-deductible amount ($50).
We recommend you confer with your financial advisor to confirm if any of these examples of how donors may still use their DAF to support an event would work for you:
A donor could sponsor the event, and not attend, and pay fully out of the DAF/foundation.
A donor could sponsor the event using DAF/foundation funds and attend by purchasing an individual ticket through non-DAF/foundation funds.
A donor could sponsor the event, join the event as a guest of another donor/table guest, and pay fully out of the DAF/foundation.
A donor could sponsor the event and host the afforded number of people at their chosen level as long as they pay for the seats at the lowest ticket price ($200 for Edible Garden) outside of their DAF.
As an example, a $1,500 sponsor that covers 2 guests, could pay for their sponsorship with $400 from a different source of funds, and then give an additional gift of $1,100 out of their DAF.

Please email Tod Thorpe, Director of Development at tod.thorpe@maringarden.org to discuss your gift to Marin Art and Garden Center