Are you ready for climate change impacts in your city or town?
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Here’s why you should donate to CREW The funding landscape for NGO’s in Canada has changed: after ten years of successful work focused in Toronto, we have a critical need for funds to support our operations. This is an unprecedented ask. CREW’s mission is to inspire, enable and support community-led multi-generational, multi-stakeholder networking that increases…
Neighbourhood Heatwave Response Project Video
In collaboration with residents and volunteers in St. James Town, Community Resilience to Extreme Weather (CREW) and the Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) undertook the Neighbourhood Heatwave Response Project to support community-led climate resilience in high-rise communities. St James Town is one of the most densely-populated neighbourhoods in Canada, with 19 high-rise rental buildings. High-rise residents can…
Community Workbook for Climate Resilient High-Rise Neighbourhoods
CREW works with residents in ethnoculturally diverse, low-income, high-rise communities. This workbook shares the tools and strategies that will help prepare your communities for the impacts of climate change. You can select the tools and methods that are relevant to your neighbourhood. CREW will provide support for whatever approach you choose to implement. Download the…
CREW in St James Town
CREW has been building leadership capacity and volunteer teams in this exceptionally diverse neighbourhood since 2016.
CREW brings people together in workshops, training sessions, door to door outreach, asset mapping, lobby greeting tables, community events, gardening, homework clubs, ESL classes, and more. Learn more about our most recent initiative in St James Town – the Neighbourhood Heatwave Response project.
Core Impacts
Heat & Drought
Floods & Precipitation
Catastrophic Weather
Core Adaptations
Community Actions
Are You Ready?
Food Security
Green Spaces
Social Networks
“Recovery from natural and other disasters does not depend on the overall amount of aid received nor on the amount of damage done by the disaster; instead, social capital – the bonds which tie citizens together – functions as the main engine of long term recovery.”
Daniel Aldrich, 2010
Interested in taking part?
Please reach out if you’d like to make a difference on climate change in your community.