Community Grants Program
“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.
Secure On-Line Donations:
2010 Grants Recipients
Project Name: Woodbine Park Naturalization
Organization: Scouts Canada Central Ontario – 132nd Toronto Scouts Troupe
To provide scout groups the opportunity to enhance and maintain Woodbine Park in the Beaches neighbourhood through
reforestation.
Project Name: Rockford Community Garden
Organization: FoodShare Toronto
To assist the low-income community by focusing on the entire system that puts food on our tables (from the growing, processing
and distribution of food to its purchasing, cooking and consumption) through a series of workshops, plantings and tours of other
community gardens.
Project Name: Urban Arboretum Project
Organization: GreenHere: Community Reforestation & Greening Initiatives
To provide ongoing environmental education with local schools and community groups through hosting a tree planting and park
cleanup day at Wadsworth Park.
Project Name: Wild in the City Walks
Organization: High Park Initiatives
To provide adults, children and
families across the Greater Toronto Area the opportunity to experience
the unique natural wonders
of nature through a series of 12 "High Park Wild in the City Walks."
Project Name: Neighborhood Clean Up
Organization: Iraqi Community Services of Ontario
A 3 day clean up project at Panorama Court and Stevenson Road Parks, where volunteers will be involved in park clean-up:
attempting for as much recycling of litter as possible.
Project Name: Sonya's Park Community Garden
Organization: St. Stephen's Community House
To expand the community garden in Sonya's Park by having members of the community, volunteers and children from St.
Stephen's Community House Child Care plant flowers, vegetables and herbs.
Project Name: 2010 Bell Manor Garden Project
Organization: Stonegate Community Health Centre
To assist low-income apartment residents in producing healthy, low cost food through provision of gardening plots, tools and
workshops at the Bell Manor Community Garden.
Project Name: Community Plantings, 2010
Organization: Todmorden Mills Wildflower Preserve
To restore and preserve Todmorden Mills Park by outreach and education of students and various community groups through their
participation in planting and maintaining native species.
Project Name: Rouge Park Native Demonstration Garden
Organization: The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority and Rouge Park
To expand the native garden in the Glen Rouge Campground by planting wildflower and shrubs in 2 phases completed by Rouge
Park volunteers, which will later be used for workshops and demonstrations.
Project Name: Hillcrest Park Community Garden
Organization: The Stop Community Food Centre
To engage local community groups in the restoration of the community garden located in Hillcrest Park through construction and
planting of beds and the installation of compost bins.
List of 2009 Grant Recipients
List of 2008 Grant
Recipients
List of 2007 Grant
Recipients
List of 2006 Grant
Recipients
List of 2005 Grant
Recipients
List of 2004 Grant
Recipients
List of 2003 Grant
Recipients
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