Community Grants Program
2006 Grants Recipients
Project Name: Green Stories 3
Organization: Central Neighborhood House
To provide a 6 week workshop consisting of park based arts, culture
and natural environment educational activities as well as an outdoor
Thai Chi program for women from marginalized communities. Participants
will document their community green story digitally and publish it on
the world wide web.
Project Name: Canada Day – Peace
in the City
Organization: Children’s Peace Theatre
To engage community members about youth violence and the importance
of peace, by staging a performance at the Canada Day celebration in
Stan Wadlow Park.
Project Name: LITTERacy Program
Organization: Christie Ossington Neighborhood
Centre
To create and install artistic information ‘stakes’ in Christie
Pits Park that will raise awareness about the effects of litter on the
environment as well as list the nearest sites for proper litter disposal.
Project Name: Cob in the Park
Organization: Clay & Paper Theatre
To engage community volunteer creativity and labour installing earthen
sculptures at Dufferin Grove Park, integrating benches, planters and
niches along with a functioning composting toilet that will teach the
public about environmentally friendly waste management alternatives.
Project Name: Memorial Garden Project
Organization: Community Head Injury Resource
Services (CHIRS)
To enable CHIRS clients, who are often marginalized from regular community
life, the opportunity to integrate in the larger community through helping
to maintain a memorial garden in Earl Bales Park.
Project Name: Information Plaque
Organization: East York Historical Society /
East York Foundation / Friends of Dentonia Park
To erect an information plaque in Dentonia Park that will inform visitors
about the history of the park.
Project Name: Smart Living St. Lawrence
– Native Species Garden
Organization: ENERACT
To engage the local community in transforming and maintaining a section
of David A. Crombie Park into a garden composed of native plant species.
Project Name: 12 Simple Soups from the
Garden Calendar
Organization: The Fred Victor Centre
To engage community members in the creation of a calendar that will
provide recipes of simple, nutritious soups made from ingredients grown
in the Moss Park Community Kitchen Garden. The calendar will include
photographs of plants from this garden.
Project Name: Mary McCormick Community
Garden
Organization: FutureWatch Environment and Development
Education Partners
To enhance and foster community spirit and cooperation among the local
population through the creation of a wildflower garden in McCormick
Park.
Project Name: Leslieville Tree Festival
and Grand Opening of Youth Resource Centre
Organization: Phoenix Community Works Foundation
/ LEAF
To help youth achieve a sense of pride through community volunteer involvement
in spring park clean-up, tree planting and maintenance as well as through
participation in a nature based art competition and exhibition and musical
performances.
Project Name: Community Demonstration Garden
& Youth Environmental Action Event
Organization: Phoenix Community Works Foundation
/ North Toronto Green Community
To encourage community members to become more involved in local parks,
by planting a native community garden. Once planted, this will provide
a site for organic gardening workshops and a summer garden festival,
including a youth environmental action event.
Project Name: Butterfly Garden
Organization: Phoenix Community Works Foundation
/ Riverdale Garden Club
To foster community involvement through the expansion of an existing
butterfly garden at Riverdale Farm along with providing educational
signage about butterflies and the plant materials that attracts them.
Project: The Monarch Project:
Kijimba Kind
Organization: Scarborough Arts Council
To involve youth from the Kingston/Galloway neighborhood in the creation
of wooden outdoor art pieces called “Kijimba Kind” and a
native plant butterfly garden containing song bird boxes and interpretative
signage at Morningside Park.
Project: Earlscourt Park
Community Garden Environmental Education
Organization: The STOP Community Food Centre
To engage people with various disabilities into an existing environmental
program that teaches community members of all ages about ecological
food production, waste reduction and composting through hands-on seasonal
workshops.
Project: Green Adventure
Program
Organization: Toronto Botanical Garden
To provide a gardening program for children from low income, high density
and ethnically diverse populations throughout the city who generally
have limited access to green space.
Project: Scarborough Village
Community Garden
Organization: West Hill Community Services / Scarborough Village Neighborhood
Association
To engage the local community in improving Scarborough Village Park
by planting and maintaining a community flower garden that will beautify
the neighborhood.
Project: Jamestown Community
Garden
Organization: West Indian Volunteer Community Support Services
To enhance and foster community spirit and cooperation through increasing
involvement in an expanded community garden at Masseygrove Park.
List of 2005 Grant
Recipients
List of 2004 Grant
Recipients
List of 2003 Grant
Recipients
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