Dream Gardeners is a program designed to assist young people in pursuing their dreams, through personal encouragement as well as the provision of technical assistance, payment of fees or provision of supplies, to nurture, for example, the dream of a future artist, photojournalist, or veterinarian.  For several years each December, the “Giving Tree”, a project of the Dream Gardener program, was co-sponsored in conjunction with the staff association of the former College and Graduate School of Education (now the College and Graduate School of Education, Health, and Human Services) at Kent State University.  One hundred eighty-four educational and developmental gifts, including many subscriptions to quality magazines have been given to low-income children, in addition to the subscriptions provided to the local homeless and women’s shelters for the children living in those facilities.