Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

Overview: Phipps continued to move forward with its proven "regenerative" approach to transform formidable challenges into opportunities to recover, strengthen and grow the organization. With regenerative systems thinking, Phipps has channeled the tension for change when challenges arise to reconcile these forces and create new and impactful deliverables for all program partners. In this way, Phipps evolves and further impels the community's resilience after the recent period of economic and pandemic flux so that every generation may find fulfillment in the beauty of Phipps, inspiration in its Gardens, personal and community growth in its programs, and essential ways to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss.see continuation on schedule o.guest services: operations are recovering from the pandemic's economic downturn. Visitation is stabilizing and approaching pre-pandemic levels as we use timed ticketing to spread visitation throughout the day. This has resulted in a safer and much better visitor experience for our guests. Through prudent planning and countermeasures, Conservatory leadership has been able to grapple with any negative short-term financial implications. To address an evolving future, leadership remains engaged in vigorous short- and long-term scenario forecasting to move the organization forward.at Phipps, guests encounter life-enhancing environmental ways of living in the tranquil, healthy nexus of ornamental horticulture with art, science, and the humanities. Woven into the region's civic identity as a premier cultural attraction and acclaimed as one of the nation's finest garden-conservatory experiences, Phipps is a global garden that enriches the community by: 1) creating and cultivating beauty, advancing life's quality; 2) sharpening sustainable gardening and landscaping skills and science; 3) addressing poor nutrition for neighbors in urban food deserts through a networks of household raised-bed vegetable Gardens and one-on-one mentoring for fresh produce in homes to support healthier lifestyle choices; 4) growing community steam-h education (stem, art, humanities and health) through dynamic on- and off-site programming; and, 5) demonstrating how to live, work, and learn in healthy built and natural environments. A living museum, Phipps is a popular restorative destination for residents and a recognized first-day tourist attraction. Guests enter an award-winning garden-conservatory in which soaring glass pavilions whisk one away to other worlds and cultures: from tropical biodiversity hotspots to bone-dry desert, from elegant formal Gardens to blooming country lanes with flowers from england, france, japan, cuba and other countries. Guests move through curated display areas bejeweled with sculptures by renowned Botanical glass artists amidst exhibits and seasonal flower showcases. One may see smiling children in rows with hands raised high over their heads in imitation of the tropical forest Conservatory's tree canopy. Inside this Conservatory hailed for its design breakthroughs, guests are immersed in a triennially featured rainforest's web of life, currently tropical forest hawai'iHawaii'i. Leaving the tropical forest exhibit, one moves outdoors into the future - one in which the built and natural environments meet harmoniously as nowhere else, in an award-winning living campus. On this stimulating 3-acre site, three of the world's greenest buildings - illuminating the inextricable connections between human and environmental health are united by a curated landscape and popular frog lagoon. Touring Phipps, guests share in exciting interactive exhibits, glimpse into the inner world of plants, and gain knowledge of how to meet the future's regenerative challenges. When selecting pittsburgh among the world's best places and communities, national geographic named Phipps as the epitome of the region's transformation of its storied strengths to embrace a future of consequence.

Education: america's first public teaching Conservatory, Phipps constructs pioneering, sustainable garden rooms and buildings to combine the latest environmental knowledge, innovation and technology with award-winning operations and programming. The Phipps maker-style approach to lifelong learning dates to the garden'Gardens's earliest days as a teaching Conservatory. In maker education, learners imagine, design, and create hands-on projects that deepen and share knowledge. Today, the organization catalyzes the work of public, private, and government partners with regenerative thinking to address pressing issues in ecology, horticulture, green buildings and energy, and healthy living.see continuation on schedule o.through a vibrant palette of on- and off- site, and virtual educational, research, and outreach programming, Phipps offers more than 150 classes, symposia and lectures each calendar quarter; and, Conservatory educational programs - such as kids' boot camps and the learning-by-playing fairchild challenge has engaged thousands of children and youth in hundreds of science and environmental literacy initiatives.an educational demonstration site, Phipps leads by example in addressing many human and environmental health issues, by activities that include building some of the world's greenest buildings to serving healthy foods in its cafe. For example, three of Phipps' buildings are zero-energy, and all electricity used is renewable (solar-power produced on site or purchased) and all carbon produced in heating its buildings is offset. To leverage the community impact of Gardens, museums and zoos around the world, Phipps created the climate toolkit (climatetoolkit.org), a collaborative network that allows these organizations to share, mentor, learn and demonstrate strategies to mitigate climate change.phipps' botany in action fellows program for phd candidates fosters a new generation of scientists committed to superior plant-based research and public educational engagement. To date, bia has underwritten the scientific field research and public communication training of 77 doctoral students representing 36 universities and working in 29 countries. Dynamic partnerships are ongoing with university faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students. In 2017, Phipps secured major funding to launch the nation's first research institute for biophilia and science engagement; it provides training for scientists doing biophilic research through internships, fellowships, certifications and training in science communication and outreach.

Horticulture: since opening in 1893 as the nation's first large permanent garden-conservatory and being recognized as the first teaching one in 1901, Phipps has connected people to nature and each other through the beauty and science of plants in life-changing ways. Pittsburgh's garden-conservatory is one of a select number of the nation's public Gardens accredited by the american alliance of museums (aam). With its annual cycle of five facility-wide seasonal flower showcases and other leading-edge exhibits, Phipps displays the captivating inner-world of plants to the public who may delve deeper through curated education, research, and community programming. See continuation on schedule o.with gardening a pastime of choice in u.s. Households, the landmark garden-conservatory museum welcomes throngs of visitors to its location in a 456-acre urban park historic district adjacent to a burgeoning research, medical and university district, the engine for pittsburgh's ranking as one of america's four innovation cities (brookings institution in 2017).the renowned Phipps "learning and innovation ecosystem" encompasses 14 glasshouse and 8 outdoor garden-room exhibitories, and 3 education-facility buildings. Phipps' ecosystem is remarkable for combining the latest environmental knowledge, innovation and technology with: ground-breaking research; launching leading-edge education programs; erecting pioneering regenerative landscapes and buildings; and offering new cultural opportunities to the region and beyond. To demonstrate the essential and beneficial connection between human and environmental health, Phipps advances its mission by mounting pacesetting plant-based exhibits, education, research, and outreach programming in trail-blazing green buildings and landscapes to inspire wonder, appreciation and conservation of nature.

Included in other program services are depreciation, costs for maintaining the facilities, indirect labor and overhead and other miscellaneous expenses.