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Community Grants Program
Grants Awarded in 2004:
Project Name: Earlscourt
Park Community Garden Accessibility Path
Organization: The Stop Community Food Centre
To increase accessibility to the community garden and surrounding public
park by installing a wheelchair accessible pathway.
Project Name: Pathways
to Peace
Organization: Flemingdon Health Centre
To engage youth from the Flemingdon Community in the creation of a peace
garden associated with the Flemingdon Park Community Garden.
Project Name: Bereaved
Jewish Families Memorial Garden
Organization: Community Head Injury Resource Services (CHIRS)
To support a community-based brain injury rehabilitation program involving
maintenance of a beautiful memorial garden in Earl Bales Park.
Project Name: AIDS Memorial
Garden
Organization: The 519 Church Street Community Centre
To install and maintain a series of physical improvements and features
to the AIDS Memorial Garden at Cawthra Square Park.
Project Name: Masaryk-Cowan
Community Wildflower Garden
Organization: FutureWatch Environment and Development Education Partners
To build an ecological garden within a community garden site involving
members of the ethnically diverse Parkdale community.
Project Name: Green Stories
Organization: Central Neighbourhood House
To offer environmental based workshops that bring together immigrant
and refugee women to tell their stories and explore their communities
through guided visits to local Toronto parks.
Project Name: Tumivut
Hillcrest Garden Project
Organization: Na-Me-Res (Native Men s Residence)
To enhance the Hillcrest Community Garden by developing a Native herbal
garden designed to provide environmental education and therapeutic healing
to homeless youth at the Tumivut Youth Center.
Project Name: Tree Restoration
Planting
Organization: Todmorden Mills Wildflower Preserve Committee
To establish a new native tree and shrub planting at Todmorden Mills
Wildflower Park to increase biodiversity and improve the aesthetics
of the park.
Project Name: Green Adventure
Program
Organization: Toronto Botanical Garden
To support an innovative teaching garden program for children from low
income, high density and ethnically diverse areas of the city who have
minimal access to natural green spaces.
Project Name: High Park
Northeast Park Entrance Tree Restoration
Organization: High Park Initiatives
To extend native tree and shrub restoration plantings to a new and highly
visible area within High Park.
Project Name: Cooking
From the Garden Cookbook
Organization: Fred Victor Centre
To support the Fred Victor Centre Garden Group at the Moss Park Community
Kitchen Garden to produce a cookbook for simple, nutritious meals geared
towards individuals living on low-incomes.
Project Name: Northumberland
Concord Community Garden
Organization: Phoenix Community Works Foundation/West End Flower Fairies
To enhance the local park by creating a child-friendly community garden
space comprised of drought tolerant and native plant species.
Project Name: Tales from
a High Park Garden
Organization: Phoenix Community Works Foundation/Tales from a High Park
Garden
To offer storytelling sessions at Colborne Lodge in High Park highlighting
a variety of traditional folktales about flowers, herbs and trees, including
plant folklore of the period.
Project Name: Theatre
in the Park
Organization: Phoenix Community Works Foundation/Jane Sheppard Neighbourhood
Residents Group
To involve children youth at Northwood Park in a Theatre in the Park
experience to help build leadership capacity in a community of fixed
and low-income families.
Project Name: Green Thumbs/Growing
Things
Organization: Phoenix Community Works Foundation/Low Income Families
Together
To support a pre-school program at Riverdale Farm that allows children
who have little or no access to green space to learn about nutrition.
Project: North Goulding
Restoration Planting
Organization: Phoenix Community Works Foundation /Friends of the Don
East
To support a partnership with Parents without Partners and the Centre
for Leadership and Peace, to naturalize a mown lawn area on city parkland.
Project: The Secret Life of Plants
Organization: Phoenix Community Works Foundation/The Swizzlestick Theatre
To involve community residents and park users at St. Jamestown Park
in a series of workshops involving environmental education, recreation
and arts and culture activities.
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Community Grants
2005 Application Guidelines
List of 2003 Grant Recipients
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