Park People’s Executive Director, Erika Nikolai, has been honoured with the Distinguished Individual Award from World Urban Parks—an international recognition that celebrates her leadership and the growing national movement Park People has helped build here in Canada.
Why are events in parks important? How do grants fit into Park People’s larger goals for creating change in city parks?
The emerging stream of the Park People Nature Connect Fund provides up to $5,000 to grassroots and registered organizations across Canada that connect people with nature, foster ecological stewardship, and restore urban parks and green spaces.
The scaling stream of the Park People Nature Connect Fund offers up to $20,000 to registered organizations across Canada that connect people with nature while fostering ecological stewardship and restoring urban parks.
Learn more about green social prescribing, an evolving practice that encourages individuals to reestablish connections with nature and one another to enhance their mental, physical, and social wellbeing.
A reflection on the BEING BLACK IN PUBLIC Survey Report, exploring how Black communities experience parks and public spaces, and what fosters joy and belonging.
How do we build a healthier, greener, more joyful Toronto? We start at the park. Discover how communities across the city have transformed their green spaces over the past fifteen years. Then roll up your sleeves and help shape what comes next.
By donating to Park People, you’ll support vibrant parks for everyone.
Park People supports communities, NGOs, municipalities and grassroots groups to make their parks more vibrant and their neighbourhoods stronger.
We provide access to resources, mentorship, training, funding, and more. Whether you’re planning a climate education event or a clothing swap, we’re here to help you create an experience that’s as unique as your community.
Are you interested in animating a local green space? Read on to see what we’re up to in communities across Canada.
Take part in one of our community-based programs that connect people to each other and the rest of nature.
InTO the Ravines creates opportunities for Torontonians to come together to explore the ravines, learn about their social and ecological benefits, and champion their preservation.
Metro Vancouver seniors receive training and support to organize fun park activities, fostering social connections and physical activity among elders in their local parks and green spaces.
The Cornerstone Parks program supports and connects the organizations working in large urban parks across Canada.
The Sparking Change program supports equity-deserving community groups to transform their parks into powerful engines of community development.
Arts in the Parks brings free, family-friendly arts events and activities to parks outside Toronto’s downtown core.
Montreal’s Urban Park Champions mentoring program offers dedicated community members from equity-deserving neighbourhoods training and coaching opportunities to help them organize a series of two activities in their local parks.
Looking for funding to start, sustain, or expand your park project? Our grants support both grassroots groups and established NGOs in organizing events or leading environmental initiatives in urban parks across Canada. We strive to keep our application processes simple and remove traditional fundraising barriers.
TD Park People Grants support local leaders to organize environmental education, sustainability or stewardship events that bring people together across Canada.
Calling local leaders! As a Park Champion, you’ll receive the tools you need to bring your community together in your neighbourhood green spaces.
The InTO the Ravines Champions program offers people living near ravines training and support to learn, explore, and celebrate Toronto’s one-of-a-kind ravines system.
The programs offers community members from equity-deserving neighbourhoods training and coaching to help them enhance or transform vacant or underused spaces into public green areas.
How Maggie is helping her community dip into and see the green spaces and ravines.
Recognizing the need, and with support from Park People, VUFF envisioned a food forest as a haven for urban indigenous communities and low-income residents.
In East Vancouver’s Champlain Heights, we sat down with two organizations leading a grassroots effort to restore native forests and build community.