In evaluating a program think about other garden audiences or potential audiences and how that audience might benefit from the program and how to bring it to them. The never-ending challenge for most if not all public gardens is funding, where to find the money. The ways to support or fund a project are limited only by imagination. Seldom does a program self-fund, that is to say pay for itself. Even fee supported programs need start-up or development funds.
Funding begins with a budget.
This budget should also address how this program will be sustained or maintained over the duration of the program. Once the cost of a program is established a decision can be made to look for one source of funding or multiply sources. Next will the funding come from internal resources of the garden, annual fundraising events, endowments funds and the like or external sources. New programs usually mean finding new external resources. Often the best place to look is to an interest group related to the program.