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Elm West Community Garden to receive Project Impact funds

‘I am very happy to know I can continue to build the garden this coming spring’
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Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury has announced the results of Project Impact 2020.

Back in spring 2020, pre-COVID, the community came together to see 14 diverse grassroots

community projects presented by residents, schools and local community groups. 

As community members cast their vote for their top five, everyone wished they could support all 14, since each one was so worthwhile. As fundraising and voting continued, the community came through. 

Thanks to the generosity of the community, all 14 projects for 2020 were funded last spring.

There was even a little left over for a bonus prize for the project with the most votes. COVID-19 lock downs at local libraries delayed the vote count, but Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury is happy to finally announce that the Build the Garden Bigger project (Elm West Playground Association) will receive an additional $125 to continue to grow food for neighbourhood families at the Elm West Community Garden. 

“I am very happy to know I can continue to build the garden this coming spring,” said Dawn Beange.

Although some initiatives have been delayed with COVID-19, many groups used their ingenuity to find COVID-safe ways to complete or advance their projects. Here are a few examples:

  • The Elm West Community Garden added a small greenhouse and planted all 5 garden beds to feed neighbourhood families.
  • The Chelmsford Commemorative Garden was completed in Côté Park.
  • Seniors Helping Seniors made strawberry and bumbleberry jam with Coniston seniors.
  • The Place Hurtubise Clothing Exchange allows families to swap clothes as their kids grow and their needs change.
  • The Sudbury Women’s Centre held their Sew Eco projects through the fall.
  • STOP continues their harm reduction and outreach work.
  • Junction Creek Stewardship Committee invited local schoolkids to design signs that will be going up along the creek this spring.
  • Lansdowne Public School got four rain barrels for their gardens, which will be painted and installed by students this spring.
  • Northern Ontario Railroad Museum and Heritage Centre partnered with Science North to make educational signage for their milkweed patches.

Read about all the 2020 projects online here.

About Project Impact - Project Impact is all about supporting small community projects that make a big difference. Community members pitch their ideas, people pitch in donations, the community votes, and the projects with the most votes get funded. Doing good things together as a community. 

Project Impact is hosted by Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury, and has funded 48 grassroots community projects since launching in 2015. The Social Planning Council and reThink Green are supporting partners.


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