Awards and Acknowledgements

Green Toronto Award Winners

In 2010 the Green Change Project was a winner of the Green Toronto Award, under the category of Community Projects. We are truly honoured to receive this award and thank Zerofootprint for nominating the project.

We would like to thank all of our partners for their support, the Green Change Agents for their hard work and the other finalists for their combined efforts in greening our City. Most importantly, we thank the community for embracing the project and inviting Green Change Agents into your homes to talk about your commitment to the environment. Together we can accomplish great things!

2010 Bhayana Family Foundation Awards

Congratulations to Zabrina Babbington, Green Change Project and Women Moving Forward who received the Bhayana Family Foundation Award in Innovation & Creativity and Community Partnership. The Bhayana Family Foundation Awards recognize extraordinary contributions made by agency staff in three categories: dedication, innovation & creativity, and team achievement. They are awarded by United Way Toronto based on peer nominations.

The Innovation and Creativity Award is to recognize and reward individuals who introduce new ideas, services or practices in new and imaginative ways. The Community Partnership Award is to recognize a partnership between three or more organizations that commit themselves to working together on a specific project or initiative to produce outcomes that one partner working alone could not achieve. Whereby exemplifying principles of teamwork, diversity, sense of common purpose to address root causes of social problems, and make a significant contribution to the community they serve.

CONGRATULATIONS!

• To staff at The Spot Where YOU(th) Wanna Be who, In 2008, received the Bhayana Family Award for Team Achievement. The Bhayana Family Foundation Awards recognize extraordinary contributions made by agency staff in there categories: dedication, innovation & creativity, and team achievement. They are awarded by United Way Toronto based on peer nominations. The Team Achievement Award is to recognise and reward teams who work toward a common goal, together these individuals demonstrate commitment to success through excellent and consistent performance. Continue the great work at The Spot. We are all proud of you! See here for more details.

• To all staff at the Jane/Finch Community and Family Centre, proud recipients of the 2008 United Way Spirit Award (agency campaign category). The Centre ran an exemplary fundraising campaign using consistent and clear communications to its staff, Board and community members about the importance of United Way’s support to our agency and the community. We achieved a 52% increase in donations and a 100 % participation rate. See here to find out more.