Agnes McPhail Tenant Association 
CHU 20 - Lumsden

$25,000 over two years to create linkages to community services in the Lumsden Community by establishing a Tenant Resource Centre. The resource centre will promote knowledge of community resources and connect residents to community agencies. Outreach will target shut-ins, seniors and those with mental health concerns. Neighbourhood Information Centre will act as its trustee.

The expected results include:
• Monthly meet and greet sessions between community agencies and tenants

• Strengthened volunteer base to support the centre

• A resource centre equipped with information about local service

East York Community Gardening Committee
CHU 20 – East York

$37,700 over two years to build the capacity of TCHC residents to address some of their own community health needs and improve food security. It will increase access by seniors to East York Acres’ community garden by building raised beds and installing solid surface paths and through the development a community kitchen. The raised beds will enable seniors who are frail or in wheel chairs to continue gardening. 

The expected results are:
• Expanded community garden

• 20 raised bed garden plots

• Establishment of a weekly community kitchen  

Future Watch Environment Development and Education Partners
CHU 24 – Etobicoke/York

$75,250 over two years to raise awareness and foster commitment among CHU 24 tenants on issues of waste reduction, waste disposal and recycling. The project will integrate immigrant communities in environmental stewardship activities. In the second year of the project, each community will organize or support a local green activity. This project is in partnership between Future Watch and the CHU 24 tenant council.

The expected results are:
• Green award program developed

• 8 tenants and 5 youth involved as green building ambassadors

• 8 ‘green’ building events per year and 8 environmental initiatives developed by tenants

• Youth group formed

• Community information package developed

Art Heart Community Art Centre 
CHU 27 – Regent Park

$50,000 over two years to train immigrant women living in Regent Park to become art teachers and/or art animators. This project will provide training, job search skills, employment and networking to Toronto’s arts and cultural sector for unemployed new immigrant women who were visual artists, artisans or art teachers in their country of origin.

The expected results include:
• 15 women will gain employment experience and develop skills to be art teachers

• Art community will have a roster of artists that reflect the diversity of Toronto

• Children and youth will receive art support from teachers that reflect their diversity

• Establishment of an advisory committee to support the project

Dixon Hall 
CHU 27 – Regent Park

$60,000 over three years to establish the Regent Park House Painting Small Business Pilot Project. The project will train tenants in plastering and painting and support tenants in gaining employment skills and support them to access other employment services. It will also develop a business model for a cost-effective local painting business pilot.
 
 The expected results include:
• 15 local residents/year will be gain skills and be hired for painting and plastering

• 10-20 residents will gain skills in small business development and management

• Project advisory committee will be established

Stop Community Food Centre 
South Scarborough - CHUs  4, 5, 21, 26

$138,500 over three years to expand the Community Food Animators Project Partnership to TCHC communities in South Scarborough to improve food security by developing food access initiatives. The project will outreach to TCHC communities, identify level of interest and commitment for food security initiatives, and connect tenant leaders to community resources to support them to establish community kitchens, community gardens, and/or fresh produce markets.

The expected results include:
• 5 tenant groups receive training in topics of gardening, food preparation and food security

• 5 community gardens, fresh food access and community kitchens established

• Food animator from Stop Community Food Centre seconded to the Community Food Animators Partnership

Social Housing Hispanic Tenants Association
City-wide

$11,800 over one year to improve communication and outreach mechanisms to Spanish speaking tenants and to enable more meaningful dialogues among members on community issues prioritized from previous workshops. This will be done by publishing a newsletter, developing a booklet in Spanish that provides tenants with information about housing and civic engagement, from a tenant perspective, and holding quarterly workshops on areas of civic engagement. Workshops will be offered in Spanish.

 The expected results include:
• 2 news bulletins published

• 1,000 booklets printed for Spanish speaking tenants

• 4 workshops offered in areas of civic engagement