Accreditation Ontario
$500,000 over five years to improve the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of services and supports to vulnerable adults by training staff, volunteers, consumers, and their families in the use of Personal Outcome Measures.

Alcohol and Drug Concerns Inc.
$100,000 over two years to implement a new development strategy that will expand the reach of existing programs and services throughout Ontario.

Alliance for Canadian New Music Project
$30,000 over six months to update computer and office equipment this not-for-profit organization that promotes and preserves Canadian contemporary music. The initiative will provide greater access to works of Ontario composers.

Altruvest Charitable Services
$253,000 over three years to design, develop and implement an online Leadership Development Program that will recruit, train and match skilled volunteers interested in a governance role on a board of directors with charitable and/or not-for-profit organizations.

Anne Johnston Health Station
$458,900 over three years to enable adults who use AAC (augmentative & alternative communication) to access personal support networks and community services to help them communicate about issues of sexuality, abuse and safety.

Architectural Conservancy of Ontario
$14,700 over six months to mobilize fifty heritage volunteers from across the province to research the extent to which historically significant buildings have been altered and demolished since 1985 and report the reasons.

Arthritis Society, Ontario Division
$530,200 over three years to create a regional chapter structure to attract new members with a wide range of skills and experience, better train and support volunteers, and ensure the ongoing sustainability of a community-based structure.

Association canadienne-française de l'Ontario - Conseil régional d'Ottawa-Carleton
$175,000 over three years to implement a cultural awareness project for students attending French elementary schools to increase their understanding and appreciation of their cultural heritage.

Association des professionnel(le)s de la chanson et de la musique
$278,000 over three years to provide administrative support and purchase equipment that will better enable this not-for-profit organization to promote and distribute the works of Franco-Ontarian musicians.

Asthma Society of Canada
$327,200 over three years to develop and market-test effective asthma management programs that will benefit Ontarians affected by Asthma through enhanced communications on the Web site, 1-800 line, and all print materials.

Autism Society Ontario
$250,000 over three years to hire regional support leaders who will provide support and education to parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, and interested professionals, and to develop and distribute five resource booklets.

Basketball Ontario
$339,000 over five years to implement Mini Hoops, a pilot basketball program for young children, increase participation in two other basketball programs for older children and develop a sustainability plan.

Bereaved Families of Ontario
$52,500 over one year to deliver peer-based services to youth in 16 Ontario communities using trained volunteers in one-to-one and group settings.

Big Brothers and Sisters of Canada
$289,200 over three years to develop and test tools to measure the effectiveness of programs for children at the local agency level.

Bird Studies Canada
$460,300 over two years to develop an effective strategy to communicate the results of collected data to volunteer citizen scientists, support capacity development of eight affiliated migration monitoring stations, and provide core operating support.

Breakfast for Learning
$335,000 over two years to develop and pilot a Best Practices Evaluation Tool for child nutrition programs in schools, which will help Ontario programs develop a common understanding of 'quality' and begin to evaluate the impact of these programs.

Canadian Artists Representation Ontario
$257,000 over three years to hire a full-time membership services coordinator, to further enhance sustainability of the organization and to update the computer and software systems.

Canadian Biodiversity Institute
$116,000 over 18 months to support school yard greening initiatives through the development of practical resource materials and the provision of training to 120 school communities across Ontario.

Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists-Guild
$165,000 over three years to enable this organization to promote book arts and to publicize its training programs and establish links with corporate sponsors to increase fundraising on a sustainable basis.

Canadian Curling Association
$30,000 over six months to assess club needs and produce a strategic plan for the implementation of a shared technology infrastructure that will modernize operations of curling clubs in Ontario and improve their business focus.

Canadian Hard of Hearing Association, Ontario Chapter
$24,200 over one year to develop a strategic plan to better support people who are hard of hearing and their families, and increase public awareness across the province of Ontario.

Canadian Intramural Recreation Association
$142,000 over three years to fund Active Playgrounds, a collaborative with OPHEA and Toronto Public Health that will increase physical activity of children through the delivery of training workshops to school, recreation and health educators.

Canadian MedicAlert Foundation Inc.
$382,600 over two years to support a province-wide Youth Outreach Project designed to identify and enroll children and youth with medical conditions or special needs in a program providing lifesaving emergency medical identification services.

Canadian Organization of Senior Artists and Performers
$249,000 over three years to establish an administrative structure for the organization and to produce two new performances in Ontario communities.

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
$80,000 over two years to develop a model stakeholder consultation process to map the natural, cultural, and resource value of parks and surrounding communities through scientific GIS mapping and the production of an atlas of conservation.

Canadian Policy Research Networks Inc.
$27,500 over one year to produce A Scan of Recreation Policies and Programs for Canadian Youth that will determine if and how economic and social changes have affected the types of available recreational opportunities.

Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons
$371,900 over three years to support Friends of the Water, a public education campaign to reduce the impact of recreational boaters on water quality.

Canadian Ski Instructors' Alliance - Ontario Division
$24,000 over eight months to increase the number of qualified instructors by working with the Canadian Association of Disabled Skiers, Ontario Track 3 and ski hill operators to provide youth leadership and to improve volunteers' skiing and teaching abilities.

Centre franco-ontarien de folklore
$25,000 over one year to increase awareness of the cultural contribution of Franco-Ontarians by helping the Centre mount a travelling exhibition of the work of local artist Maurice Gaudreault.

Centre franco-ontarien de folklore
$150,000 over one year to offer French secondary schools La Grande Virée, a heritage and cultural tour. Along with a concert by the award-winning folklore music group Deux Saisons, the project partners will provide educational resources and workshops.

Classroom Connections/Le Chainon scolaire
$467,700 over 30 months to pilot and evaluate a re-developed family literacy program in four communities across Ontario and to build organizational capacity to expand and sustain the program.

Coalition on the Niagara Escarpment
$136,100 over two years to develop and pilot test comprehensive strategic, communications, and fundraising plans in order to introduce an effective and sustainable escarpment-wide participatory public awareness and education program.

Communitas Canada
$442,000 over three years to assist in restructuring the organization to better support activities such as literacy and writing workshops across the province, Writers Circles and an annual writing contest.

Community Arts Ontario
$237,300 over three years to support improved governance in community arts organizations across the province.

Council of Elizabeth Fry Societies of Ontario
$25,300 over one year to support a strategic planning process to enable the organization to make decisions on the most effective way of operating in order to reduce the number of women in Ontario’s prisons.

Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce Incorporated
$9,000 over one year to provide education and training for people involved in the Crime Stoppers program by helping cover costs associated with speakers and equipment at an educational conference being held in Ontario for participants from across the province.

Curl Ontario
$45,300 over one year to purchase equipment to enhance program delivery. This support will provide instructors with improved technical capabilities that will enable them to provide better training to curlers.

Dance Ontario Association
$54,000 over 18 months to create accessible, interactive dance “packages” showcasing diverse dance forms and market them to several rural communities.

Dance Umbrella of Ontario
$18,000 over five months to assess the arts management needs of dance professionals in seven Ontario dance centres and propose sustainable solutions.

Danny Grossman Dance Company
$198,000 over three years to mount a touring initiative and residency program in Northern Ontario that will build audiences for modern dance and develop dance practitioners through live performances and interactive activities.

Deaf Arts Association of Canada
$24,000 over one year to help launch a mural outreach project that will provide a hands-on artistic experience for deaf or hard-of-hearing children from 20 communities across Ontario.

Earth Day Canada
$275,000 over two years to develop and implement EcoAction, a program that teaches householders how to reduce energy consumption and household waste which results in a healthier environment and financial savings.

Éditions Prise de parole
$10,000 over one year to help this small not-for-profit publishing house that has published many award-winning works of Franco-Ontarians develop a publicity campaign to encourage subscriptions.

Environmental Education Ontario Inc. (EEON)
$124,600 over one year to engage environmental educators in research that will lead to the development of a strategic plan for environmental education of Ontarians. Two working conferences will be held with groups involved with environmental education.

Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy
$24,000 over 18 months to initiate and maintain a communication program with local volunteers to network with landowners, community leaders and local interest groups to encourage the donation of land to nature reserves along the Niagara Escarpment.

ESTEEM Team Association
$498,500 over three years to build an effective, athlete role model program in Ontario that will promote positive attitudes to sport, achievement, teamwork and responsibility in schools across the province.

Evergreen Foundation
$470,400 over three years to develop a system to manage, recognize and support environmental volunteers. The system will be piloted in Thunder Bay, Toronto, and Sudbury and disseminated in 10 Ontario communities.

Fédération des aînés et des retraités francophones de l'Ontario
$135,000 over three years to conduct a needs assessment and develop a strategic planning model for young retirees.

Federation of Ontario Naturalists
$431,900 over four years in collaboration with the Nature Conservancy of Canada to increase the number and diversity of volunteers active in habitat conservation projects by developing new partnerships.

Festivals & Events Ontario
$200,000 over three years to build festival and event networks in the north and eastern regions of Ontario in order to strengthen local capacity and attract tourism.

Frontiers Foundation Inc.
$155,000 over three years to support the long term stability of Operation Beaver, a program that recruits, trains and coordinates volunteers to help rebuild substandard housing in off-reserve Native and Métis rural communities.

Global Vision/Vision internationale
$25,000 over one year to support the Junior Team Ontario Ambassador Program, which provides youth in Ontario with hands-on experience that teaches the importance of trade and how they can be effective in their own communities to help further promote their regions in the global market place.

Green Communities Association
$482,500 over three years to reduce car use and greenhouse gases and make communities safer by encouraging children and parents to walk to school in ten Ontario communities through the Active & Safe Routes to School program.

Groupe des Arts Bassan
$75,000 over three years to tour a French-language play in 12 communities and expand the audience base for this versatile small theatre group specializing in the works of Afro-Canadian playwrights.

Inform Ontario (Association of Community Information Centres in Ontario - ACICO)
$156,900 over one year to assess the current infrastructure of community information services and to develop a strategic vision to introduce sustainable dedicated information line services across Ontario efficiently and effectively.

Junior Achievement of Canada
$429,100 over two years to enable a smooth transition to a new organizational structure that will create a regional presence for Junior Achievement in Ontario.

Kaeja d'Dance
$195,300 over two years to create a new contemporary dance company of young professionals that will reach out to youth and educators in 14 Ontario communities through performance, workshops and presentations.

Keewaytinook Okimakanak
$23,700 over six months to increase the reach, quality and sustainability of Turning Point: Native Peoples and Newcomers on Line, a Web-based conversation forum to facilitate respectful dialogue, information sharing, understanding and co-operative action.

La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario
$150,000 over three years to undertake a development plan intended to improve the gallery’s management and marketing structure, generate better services to visual artists and increase the participation of the public.

La Nouvelle Scène
$25,000 over one year to develop a strategic business plan and solidify the administrative structure of the Alliance culturelle de l'Ontario. This collaborative initiative will enhance the participation of French-speaking Ontarians of all backgrounds and cultural traditions.

Le Théâtre La Catapulte
$195,000 over five years to develop a sustainable theatre touring network across the province for plays created for French-speaking youth of Ontario.

Les Concerts La Nuit sur l'étang
$130,000 over three years to develop this Francophone festival’s capacity and help the organization manage the continuing growth of its activities, including expanding a more diversified and sustainable sponsorship base.

Mama-Wes-Wen The North Shore Tribal Council
$601,600 over four years to develop a program of cultural health and mentorship in the seven First Nations of the North Shore Tribal Council and the Sault Ste. Marie Friendship Centre.

Mariposa in the Schools
$144,200 over two years to expand the folk arts programs in schools and communities and to strengthen the organization's strategic planning, outreach and development capacities.

Médecins sans frontières/Doctors Without Borders Canada
$184,700 over one year to produce an educational package including four videos for Ontario youth based on the travelling exhibit "A Refugee Camp in the City." This initiative will help Ontario's youth better understand the refugee experience of other young people.

Mood Disorders Association of Ontario and Toronto
$25,000 over six months to conduct a province-wide needs assessment and prepare a detailed work plan to strengthen the provincial network and support of people with mood disorders who are not currently being supported because of geographic or social isolation.

Mushkegowuk Council
$200,700 over 18 months to develop a Regional Sport and Recreation Council to provide recreational and sport activities to James Bay area youth and to host a Youth Conference in May 2002.

Older Adults Centres' Association of Ontario
$297,000 over three years to support an intergenerational program that brings together young people, healthy seniors and people with Alzheimer disease and related dementias in activities from which they can all benefit.

Ontario 4-H Council
$199,000 over four years to conduct a provincial process of research and training to address volunteer burn out and retention in rural community organizations.

Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies
$40,400 over one year to create teaching and training videos for the hundreds of volunteers who judge competitions at Ontario Fairs.

Ontario Association of Children's Rehabilitation Services
$100,000 over two years to implement "Family Net," a Web site that will provide relevant news, current resources, and forums for parents and caregivers to share experiences, knowledge and offer support to each other in raising children with special needs.

Ontario Association of Distress Centres
$144,300 over four years to restructure and update the Association's accreditation program, and to establish a new process for formally accrediting the Association's 24 member agencies.

Ontario Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Inc.
$24,000 over one year to help the Association provide workshops across the province, develop and deliver training models, and increase awareness of its services – all designed to encourage Ontarians to participate in physical activity and exercise safely.

Ontario Ball Hockey Association
$188,000 over four years to provide ball hockey demonstration and coaching clinics to communities throughout Ontario, increasing participation in the sport as well as coaches’ and players’ skills.

Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres
$25,000 over four months to enable delegates from 28 sexual assault and rape crisis centres in Ontario participate in a national forum on violence against women.

Ontario Community Transportation Association
$28,500 over ten months to research and develop a sustainable Community Transportation Mentoring Program, which aims at improving access to community transportation, especially for people in rural areas, seniors and persons with disabilities.

Ontario Council for International Cooperation
$24,500 over three months to build communities of global citizens through a province-wide skill-building and networking conference on public engagement strategies for global education.

Ontario Crafts Council
$270,000 over three years to build a grassroots network in several regions of Ontario and to enhance the cultural contributions of craftspeople.

Ontario Environment Network
$115,800 over three years to attract, support, retain and recognize youth environmental volunteers across the province.

Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs
$360,100 over five years to support 281 volunteer clubs to respond to the growth in year-round trail use and the impact on local tourism.

Ontario Marine Operators Association
$72,000 over three years to fund the promotion and marketing of the Clean Marine certification program to Ontario boaters, marinas and yacht clubs to increase consumer awareness of and demand for environmentally-friendly marine services.

Ontario Orienteering Association
$25,000 over three months to purchase an electronic punch and timing system that will allow the organization to hold more events and increase participation in the sport.

Ontario Ringette Association
$60,800 over six months to purchase and distribute shot clocks to community-based associations across Ontario, making the sport more attractive to both players and spectators and encouraging increased participation.

Ontario Rowing Association
$71,600 over one year to purchase recreational boats and a trailer in order to promote recreational rowing and touring and encourage the development of recreational and adaptive rowing programs.

People for Equal Partnership in Mental Health
$112,800 over 18 months to establish the North East Ontario Network / Réseau Nord-Est ontarien (NEON/RENO) which will provide networking opportunities and an information and resource centre for people with mental health issues.

Perinatal Bereavement Services Ontario
$160,000 over four years to support organizational development, volunteer recruitment and training, additional support groups and phone counselling for grieving parents, and sensitivity training of health care, pastoral and funeral care workers.

Pink Triangle Services (PTS)
$24,300 over six months to develop education kits and workshops that will enable Ontarians in same-sex relationships to better understand their rights and legal responsibilities.

RAINBOWS for All God's Children of Canada, Inc.
$152,600 over three years to open new sites and recruit and train new volunteers to deliver grief support to children and youth in more than 12 communities across the province.

Raising The Roof/Chez Toit
$24,900 over six months for the development of a Youth Engagement program, which will involve young people in educational community-based homelessness initiatives in Ontario.

Regroupement des organismes du patrimoine franco-ontarien
$195,000 over three years to enable this Franco-Ontarian coalition to carry out regional training, promote local, regional and touring exhibitions, identify potential private sector funding sources and strategies for self-generated revenues.

Réseau du Patrimoine 'Voyageur' Heritage Network
$150,000 over three years to enable this Franco-Ontarian heritage network to improve its Web site, deliver more workshops to members, and increase marketing opportunities for northern Ontario museums.

Rideau Waterway Land Trust Foundation Inc.
$21,200 over nine months to develop a business plan for the Ontario Land Trust Alliance, which represents 30 local land trusts across Ontario. The plan will help local land trusts be able to better manage donations of small acreage.

Roots of Empathy
$127,800 over two years to develop a continuing education program to provide instructors with additional training and support on the classroom implementation of a program designed to foster the development of empathy in children.

Routes to Learning Canada
$305,000 over three years to develop regional learning programs that highlight the heritage and culture of rural Ontario sites, with a focus on areas where national historic sites are currently underutilized.

Royal Ontario Museum
$323,900 over two years to collaborate with the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Toronto and the Woodland Cultural Centre to produce two travelling exhibitions and school kits for community museums and cultural centres across Ontario.

Safe Communities Foundation
$120,000 over two years to enable the Foundation to help Safe Community Coalitions and chapters all across Ontario provide effective programs that will improve safety practices in order to reduce accidents and injuries.

Self-Help Resource Centre of Greater Toronto
$93,000 over one year to recruit and retain volunteers from newcomer communities using the principles of self-help and mutual aid.

Skate Ontario
$11,600 over one year to purchase administrative equipment that will enable the organization to market figure skating more effectively to potential corporate sponsors.

Skills Canada
$75,500 over one year to stem the shortage of skilled workers in trades and technology by outreach programs to elementary school aged students.

South Riverdale Community Health Centre
$25,000 over six months to help develop partnerships and a strategy of electronic information sharing for organizations working on children's health and the environment.

Sport Alliance of Ontario
$501,000 over two years to help develop new community sport councils across Ontario and establish a provincial Community Sport Network in order to better support and encourage volunteers involved in local sports.

St. Stephen's Community House
$140,100 over two years to help establish volunteer community mediation programs in three cities in Ontario. The program has proven to be a successful alternate dispute mechanism that saves the police and courts time and money.

Stay Alert Stay Safe
$203,400 over 18 months to support a community-based street proofing program for children that includes print resources, mascots and an interactive Web site, and to develop a strategy for long-term sustainability.

Swim Ontario
$55,500 over four years to develop and maintain a Web site which promotes a grassroots program aimed at keeping swimmers at the novice level from dropping out.

The Barbara Parry Paediatric Oncology Association
$180,000 over two years to produce "Carla Can Sing" gift packages in both English and French, and deliver them to children between the ages of 4 and 12 who have been diagnosed with cancer or are being actively treated at one of the pediatric cancer centres in Ontario; and to develop a plan for long-term sustainability.

The Children and Youth Cultural Development Association
$25,000 over one year to support the development of a new organization designed to facilitate multi-disciplinary cultural programming for children and youth across the province.

The Clean Air Foundation
$180,000 over three years to expand Car Heaven, a program that is designed to accelerate the retirement of older high polluting vehicles and thereby improve the environment.

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award
$139,200 over two years to recruit and train volunteer mentors for a youth development and recognition program that will focus on youth living in the inner city, and in rural, Aboriginal and Northern communities.

The Food Bank of Waterloo Region
$569,000 over three years, in collaboration with the Ontario Association of Food Banks, to develop a model to expand the collection and delivery of donated food from the food industry to food banks in south western Ontario.

The Hearing Foundation of Canada
$23,600 over one year to fund the Ontario portion of the Newborn Hearing Screening Video Educational Program which will increase awareness of the benefits of early hearing screening and participation in screening programs.

The I.Can Foundation
$127,000 over two years to build the organization's capacity to produce "Born to Read," a literacy guide designed to encourage family learning.

The Marl - Tiny - Matchedash Conservation Association
$194,900 over three and a half years to increase public awareness, protection, and monitoring of seven reptiles that are species-at-risk or endangered in the Georgian Bay area.

The Ontario Council of Folk Festivals
$12,500 over one year to support the organization's transition to a full-time arts service organization serving an expanded membership.

The Ontario Federation of Home and School Associations
$13,200 over two years to produce a Volunteer Skills Portfolio for members to track their leadership skills development and demonstrate the value of their volunteer work.

The Ontario Rural Council
$162,500 over 18 months to increase the participation of rural volunteers and to develop and share improved volunteer management tools.

The Ontario Society of Artists
$140,000 over one year to expand a website and broaden access to visual arts by archiving, contextualizing and linking catalogues and historical material to other collections and information.

The Speers Society
$50,000 over one year toward pilot implementation and evaluation of a resource guide designed for use with the award winning NFB film A Love that Kills, as part of a program to promote awareness and prevention of relational abuse in youth.

Théâtre Action
$199,500 over four years to develop a volunteer infrastructure for community and youth theatre and expand services, both locally and regionally.

Theatre Ontario
$273,800 over two years to provide first-aid training as well as resource and policy development to volunteer-based community theatres.

Toothin Theatre and Film
$25,000 over one year to help create a public service announcement that will help the public understand issues related to dysfunction in families.

Union des cultivateurs franco-ontariens
$306,500 over three years for operational support that will enable this Franco-Ontarian farmers' organization to provide training and increased consultations to its members and maintain a Web site on agricultural and environmental issues.

United Senior Citizens of Ontario Inc.
$122,100 over six months to encourage and recruit senior volunteers through a Seniors Volunteer Awards program and an 18-day volunteer exhibit and fair at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto.

Variety - The Children's Charity
$500,000 over two years to allow Variety and its affiliates, Variety Village and Variety Ability Systems Inc. to continue to provide programs, services and prosthetic devices to children with special needs while developing a plan for sustainability.

Victorian Order of Nurses of Canada (VON)
$382,800 over two years to assist VON Canada with the restructuring process which will help branches work more cooperatively and more efficiently in delivering a variety of nursing care services.

Voices of Positive Women
$183,900 over two years to enable this organization which provides support for women with HIV/AIDS to stabilize its operations and prepare for growth by acquiring new computer equipment, training, marketing and organizational development support for volunteers.

Volunteer Canada
$533,000 over 30 months to identify and support grassroots, citizen-based organizations through the Ontario Volunteer Centre Network.

West Parry Sound District Museum
$20,000 over one year to help museums from Guelph, Peterborough, Welland and West Parry Sound launch the Ontario leg of a national tour that profiles local history.

World Wildlife Fund Canada
$46,000 over one year to stimulate a reduction in the amount of pesticides used on agricultural crops produced in Ontario by working with apple growers who use Integrated Pest Management and retailers to market 'ecological' apples.

World Youth Days 2002 Council/Le Conseil des journées mondiales de la jeunesse 2002
$500,000 over 18 months to support the training of at least 25,000 volunteers from across Ontario who will assist approximately 750,000 youth from around the world who will be participating in World Youth Days 2002.

Youth Tobacco Coalition
$65,000 over one year to establish a board structure representative of youth in Ontario in order to implement youth-led smoking cessation strategies.

YWCA of Hamilton
$72,800 over one year to develop the Community Builders: Youth Volunteers model intended to attract and retain more youth volunteers while providing opportunities to enhance their social and work-related skills.