Community Grants Program
2008 Grants Recipients
Project Name: Art in Our Park
Organization: Agincourt Community Services Association
To provide youth led environmental and gardening sessions culminating in a sign and bench art project.
Project Name: Native Garden Planting
Organization: Black Creek Conservation Project
To engage local schools and the community in establishing a new Native wildflower garden at Chalkfarm Park.
Project Name: Memorial Garden Project
Organization: Community Head Injury Resources Services of Toronto
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: Historic Garrison Creek Watershed Greening Project
Organization: Davenport Perth Neighborhood Centre
To improve the environmental health of Bartlett and Geary Parkettes through native tree and shrub planting, clean up, habitat restoration and removal of impervious paving materials.
Project Name: Memorial Raised Bed Garden
Organization: Downsview Services to Seniors
To create an accessible memorial community garden in order to engage the community and to implement a horticultural therapy program for survivors of strokes, physical trauma and illness.
Project Name: Educating Youth on the Environment
Organization: East Toronto Family Community Centre
To engage youth in restoration of natural plant communities in Kempton Howard Park.
Project Name: Bloordale Park Rejuvenation
Organization: Friends of Bloordale Park
To install a landscape including play structures, benches, planters, trees, shrubs and plants in a designed park improvement.
Project Name: Taylor Creek Park Restoration
Organization: Friends of the Don East
To engage volunteers in restoration planting for an area of Taylor Creek Park.
Project Name: Revitalization of Dunn Parkette
Organization: MoreThan Child's Play\Greenest City
To establish a youth-driven community garden, two native plant gardens and install benches and art in Dunn Park.
Project Name: Bell Manor Garden
Organization: Stonegate Community Association
To hold four gardening workshops and provide garden equipment and supplies for the Bell Manor Community Garden which is expanded in 2008.
Project Name: Children and Seniors Create Gardens Together
Organization: Sunshine Centre for Seniors
To engage high school youth and elementary school children from high priority neighborhoods to work with the Senior's Gardening Committee to build and plant a garden, including a decorated 'twig and branch' fence.
Project Name: Green Thumbs\Growing Kids @ Allan Gardens
Organization: Toronto Kiwanis Boys and Girls Clubs\Green Thumbs
To provide a 10 week greenhouse gardening program for children of local schools (K-6), including growing plants from seed, vermicomposting, soil preparation, etc.
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