Community Grants Program
2008 Community Grants Program
Application
“Small grassroots parks projects sprout
big ideas”
“…A vibrant city grows from the grassroots
up and it doesn’t take megabucks to make it flourish. It takes
public space and public involvement and ideas that sprout from the people
who are going to use the space.”
Michele Landsberg
Toronto Star, April 27, 2003
In 2003 the Toronto Parks and Trees Foundation launched
the Community Grants Program, an initiative to support charitable community
organizations that are actively involved in sustaining and enhancing
Toronto’s parkland. The Foundation makes small grants for a diversity
of park-based projects and community group undertakings.
2007 Grants Recipients
Project Name: Bell Manor Community Garden
Organization: Stonegate Community Health Centre
To assist the needy community in producing healthy, low cost food through
providing tools and gardening workshops for participants in Bell Manor
Community Garden.
Project Name: Butterfly Garden
Organization: ENERACT (Smart Living St. Lawrence)
To engage the community in sustaining and enhancing the new Community
Butterfly Garden at David Crombie Park.
Project Name: Canada Day - Peace in the Park
Organization: Children's Peace Theatre
To engage youth in developing a drama production
on the theme of homelessness, devastation to our natural habitat and
the impact that the political and social environment have on our lives,
and to perform this at the Canada Day Celebration in Stan Waldow Park.
Project Name: From the Ground Up
Organization: Sketch Working Arts for Street-Involved
and Homeless Youth/Greenest City
To engage a Youth Green Squad as environmental
leaders-in-training who will involve their community in enhancing the
native plant garden at Beaty Boulevard Parkette and create the first
community food garden in Ward 18 at Masaryk Park.
Project Name: Green Adventure Children's Gardening Program
Organization: Toronto Botanical Garden
To engage children from low-income, high density and ethnically diverse
areas to experience nature with fun and educational activities in The
Children's Teaching Garden at Edwards Gardens.
Project Name: Green Thumbs\ Growing Things
Organization: Toronto Kiwanis Boys and Girls
Club
To provide hands-on programs at Allan Gardens Children's Conservatory
during winter and spring; connecting urban children with the natural
environment and encouraging the development of community gardening to
produce healthy, affordable food.
Project Name: Habitat Planting
Organization: Todmorden Mills Wildflower Preserve
Committee
To plant native trees, evergreens and shrubs enhancing, preserving and
protecting the Todmorden Mills Wildflower Preserve.
Project Name: Intergenerational Gardening
Organization: Sunshine Centre for Seniors
To engage seniors, grade school classes and volunteers in an intergenerational
planting project; beautifying Toronto Island Parkland around the Sunshine
Centre for Seniors.
Project Name: Keeping our Gardens Alive
Organization: Future Watch Environment and Development
Education Partners
To enhance and foster community spirit and cooperation through the enhancement
of the Masaryk-Cowan Legacy Wildflower Garden and the Mary McCormick
Eco-Garden, engaging community volunteers.
Project Name: Memorial Garden Project
Organization: Community Head Injury Resource
Services
To enhance and provide maintenance for the Memorial Gardens in Earl
Bales Park through providing volunteer work opportunities for individuals
living with the effects of acquired brain injury.
Project Name: Native Wildflower Garden
Organization: Black Creek Conservation Project
To engage community volunteers and students from local schools to establish
a native wildflower garden within Chalkfarm Park.
Project Name: Phin Avenue Parkette Renewal
Organization: St Leonard's Society of Toronto/Friends
of Phin Parkette
To engage volunteers, business and community partners in enhancing Phin
Avenue Parkette with a new landscape including pathways, a pergola,
formal gardens and new flowering and shade trees.
Project Name: Stone Soup in Oakdale Park
Organization: St. Alban's Boys & Girl's Club/World
Play Theatre
To foster inter-cultural understanding by engaging children in learning
and performing international songs and folktales from around the world,
including 3 public performances for the community in Oakdale Park.
Project Name: Treeing the Village
Organization: Phoenix Community Works Foundation/Harbord
Village Residents Association
To train community volunteers who will conduct a detailed tree inventory
under the supervision of the University of Toronto Forestry Department
staff in order to provide a scientific report on the decline of the
urban forest and galvanize the community to increase tree planting efforts
Project Name: Trees Davenport Festival 2007
Organization: Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre
To gather the community at Dovercourt Park to celebrate the urban forest
and promote tree stewardship.
Project Name: Voices of the Guild: A Story Telling Festival
Organization: The Guild Renaissance Group
To raise awareness of the beauty of Guild Inn Park and its artistic
legacy and significance to the community and City by holding a one-day,
multi-disciplinary story telling festival; including training and encouraging
youth from the Kingston\Galloway neighbourhood to participate.
Project Name: Wildflower Meadow
Organization: Phoenix Community Works Foundation/Composting
Council of Canada
To promote the use of native plants and environmentally respectful gardening
by creating a wildflower meadow at Roxton Road Parkette.
Project Name: Yoga in the Parks
Organization: Central Neighborhood House
To enhance recreational opportunities and environmental awareness for
new-comer women by engaging them in educational tours and yoga sessions
in 5 City parks across the City.
List of 2006 Grant Recipients
List of 2005 Grant
Recipients
List of 2004 Grant
Recipients
List of 2003 Grant
Recipients
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