Centre for Social Innovation - Where Change Happens!

The Friends of Fort York is a voluntary, non-profit organization founded in 1994 with upwards of two hundred members.

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Public space is at the heart of democracy. It's where people interact, teach, learn, participate, and protest.

But environmental degradation, commercial self-interest, and infrastructure neglect have come to dominate our cities' streets. Fortunately, imaginative and passionate city-dwellers worldwide - and in Toronto in particular - appreciate the endless possibilities that cities can offer. They are resisting the co-option of their communities through random acts of beauty and intellect.

[murmur] is a documentary oral history project that records stories and memories told about specific geographic locations. We collect and make accessible people's personal histories and anecdotes about the places in their neighborhoods that are important to them. In each of these locations we install a [murmur] sign with a telephone number on it that anyone can call with a mobile phone to listen to that story while standing in that exact spot, and engaging in the physical experience of being right where the story takes place.

The mission of Centre for City Ecology (CCE) is to cultivate a broad understanding of how cities - their economies, neighbourhoods, communities, and institutions – organically develop and thrive. The goals of the CCE are to increase ‘urban literacy’ and to promote civic engagement and community leadership in city-building. The focus of the Centre is largely influenced by the writings and activism of long-time Toronto resident Jane Jacobs. The primary focus of CCE in the next year is the expansion of a program called Jane’s Walk, inaugurated in May 2007.