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Applications Are Open For The New And Improved 2024 Ontario Community Changemakers Program
June 2024 | 8 80 Cities
Green Communities Canada Leads Electric School Bus Alliance
March 2024 | Green Communities Canada
LOFT Celebrates Birchmount Green’s Grand Opening
January 2024 | LOFT Community Services
Living Cities Canada Fund will create new green spaces in 28 communities in 2023-24
October 2023 | Green Communities Canada | Living Architecture Monitor
Canada's first Climate Ready School: it's greener, cooler and inspiring community
May 2023 | Evergreen
Micro-grants available for young 'changemakers' in Ontario
March 2023 | 8 80 Cities | Cambridge Today
Evergreen unveils Canada’s first Climate Ready School Ground
October 2022 | Evergreen | Newswire
TOA’s Active Transportation Coordinator Selected as an Ontario Community Changemaker
August 2022 | 8 80 Cities | Town of Ajax
New Black-focused Social Prescribing Project aims to improve health in Black communities with a proven holistic approach grounded in Afrocentric principles of wellbeing
July 2022 | Alliance for Healthier Communities | Newswire
Applications begin for Ontario Changemaker's program
April 2022 | 8 80 Cities | Cambridge Today
Oculus at South Humber Park may be headed for city's heritage register
September 2021 | Park People | Toronto Star
U of T researcher launches project to collect data on Black experience with COVID-19
July 2021 | U of T Dalla Lana School of Public Health
How Climate-Ready Design is transforming Canadian school grounds
March 2021 | Evergreen
It Takes a Village: Black-Led Database is Accepting Canadian Data
January 2021 | U of T Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Halton reimagining the old school yard
October 2020 | Evergreen | Bay Observer
The Oculus hosts new public art installation
October 2020 | Park People | Canadian Architect
Ontario expanding mental health services for children and youth
October 2020 | Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario CAMH | Ontario Newsroom
How a space age public toilet went from an architectural gem to sad and derelict - and back again
October 2020 | Park People | Toronto Star
Stepping up: How one man's push to get his neighbours walking is starting to bring a Toronto community together
September 2020 | Park People | The Globe and Mail
'We will no longer raise children': New partnership aims to keep kids out of child welfare system
November 2019 | Children's Aid Foundation of Canada | The Globe and Mail
New four-year program aims to keep Toronto kids out of foster care
November 2019 | Children's Aid Foundation of Canada | Toronto Star
Transformational early intervention program to strengthen families and dramatically reduce the number of kids in care launches in Toronto
November 2019 | Children's Aid Foundation of Canada | Newswire
Pop-up garden in Toronto has deep roots in Guelph
July 2019 | Park People | Guelph Mercury
Park People's Public Space Incubator tests new ideas for public spaces
August 2018 | Park People | Toronto.com
5 new projects receive grants to shake up underused public spaces
August 2018 | Park People | Toronto Star