Do you have an idea for your neighbourhood but need help getting started? You've come to the right place!
Step-by-Step Guides
Use these step-by-step guides to get started on your project and make a difference in your neighbourhood. If you don't see a project of interest listed below, contact us and we can help you get started.
Learn how to start a community garden in your neighbourhood or get involved in an existing garden.
Find out how you can improve safety, slow traffic or add beauty to your street.
Bring a pop-up market to your neighbourhood, providing residents with easy access to fresh produce or crafts.
Learn about the exciting concept of placemaking and its potential to create gathering places in your neighbourhood.
Read about different techniques and tips for improving the boulevard in front of your home.
Plan a resident-led public seating projects to help create rest areas and spaces in your neighbourhood for residents to gather.
Beautify, transform and celebrate spaces in your neighbourhood by leading an art projects.
Shape the future of your neighbourhood with a long-term vision for positive change.
In Your Neighbourhood: Tips and Tools for Making a Positive Impact
From leading a large project to shoveling a neighbour’s driveway, neighbourhood leadership comes in many forms and may be led by any individual or group of neighbours who are looking to make a positive impact where they live. Learn how you can make an impact on your own neighbourhood.
Plan a project that harness the energy and creativity of your neighbors to help clean, protect and enhance green spaces across our city.
By planning a Little Library, you can encourage literacy by making books available to everyone who passes by.
If you’d like to host a street party, but don’t know where to start, this guide is for you!
Snow Angels are good neighbours who help clear others’ driveways, sidewalks and walkways of ice and snow during the winter months.
Toolkits
We're working on a few resources to help you with specific challenges and tasks as you work through your project.
Getting to know your neighbourhood
- Community and Neighbourhood Association Maps
- Asset Mapping: Neighbourhood Gathering, Walk and Asset Chart
Communication and engagement
- Engaging the Neighbourhood
- Valuing Inclusion and Diversity in the Neighbourhood
- Communications Plan Template
Making decisions and planning for change
- How to Develop Vision Statements, Objectives, Quick Wins and Actions
- How to Plan and Run Meetings
- Decision-making Tools
- LoveMyHood Matching Grant Sample Budget Template
- Neighbourhood Action Plan Template, Instructions and Examples
- Neighbourhood Action Plan Workplan Template
- Neighbourhood Action Plan Implementation Template
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