Inventory of Ideas

Orange footprints in Victoria Park: Stepping towards an important Indigenous-led tribute

Posted Tuesday, June 21, 2022

If you’ve been walking through Victoria Park this spring, you might have noticed orange ribbons tied to some of the lamp posts, and more recently orange footprints painted on the trails throughout the park. These ribbons were to signal that an important resident-led tribute is coming to Victoria Park – an Honorary Crosswalk for Every Child Matters. And the orange footprints are the first step towards bringing this tribute to the park.

Impassioned by the overwhelming...

What can you do with a LoveMyHood Matching Grant?

Posted Sunday, May 01, 2022

With up to $30,000 in grant funding available, there's so many ways to lead projects that help connect neighbours, improve neighbourhoods and revitalize public spaces. Here's what other Kitchener residents have done in their own neighbourhoods:

Painted Crosswalks

Whether you're walking, biking, taking transit or driving, safe streets make our neighbourhoods safe. Painted crosswalks, and other resident-led traffic-calming projects like intersection murals and boulevard planter boxes,...

The Kitchener Rangers Fitness Area opened just when we needed it most

Posted Tuesday, June 01, 2021

Let’s give three cheers for a resident-led outdoor gym that quietly popped up in Victoria Park in August 2020. Are you one of the many youth and adults who have already discovered that this new amenity is perfect for a much needed pandemic workout?

Introducing the Kitchener Rangers Fitness Area! It’s a four-season gem of an outdoor gym, designed for youth and adults, and laid out to maximize social connections between people while working out.

With the suppoer of the...

This year, the LoveMyHood team can't help but reflect on our dedicated and passionate community of Kitchener residents

Posted Friday, January 08, 2021

While 2020 has been an incredibly difficult year that has required our community to practice physical distancing, Kitchener residents have found new ways to connect with their neighbours to create meaningful, lasting change in their neighbourhoods.

This passion for community and neighbourhood connection was clearly reflected in the many applications we received this year through the LoveMyHood Matching Grant.

Originally amounting to $150,000 in total available funds, the grant...

A visit with the Wisahkotewinowak Indigenous gardening collective

Posted Thursday, October 15, 2020

Wrriten by Sarah Anderson, Neighbourhood Laision in the Neighbourhood Development Office. 

When I last saw Dave Skene, he had dropped by with a jar of fresh maple syrup on an afternoon in late March. Wisahkotewinowak, an Indigenous garden collective to which Dave belongs, had been awarded a LoveMyHood grant to celebrate the 2020 Maple Moon in two Kitchener parks. As the Neighbourhood Liaison, I had been supporting Dave and a group of park neighbours to put on these celebrations.

For...