Together, Greening Sacred Spaces Ottawa and Watersheds Canada successfully delivered the Ottawa Faith Community Capacity Building Program! This two-year project provided six Ottawa, Ontario and surrounding area faith communities with the tools and resources their leaders and volunteers needed to identify a freshwater stewardship need in their community, gain knowledge and skills using information toolkits, and lead a greening project through a microgrant program opportunity. This program was possible thanks to generous funding from the Ottawa Community Foundation, TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, and the Living Cities Canada Fund of Green Communities Canada.
The Freshwater Stewardship Engagement toolkit is now available for the public to use to lead the following types of greening projects:
- Community Gardens
- Community Science
- Fish Habitat
- Green Audits and Retrofits
- Indigenous Water Education
- Invasive Species Management
- Natural Shorelines
- Shoreline Cleanups
- Stormwater Management
- Youth Engagement
Learn more about the projects that took place: