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1999 Annual Report Bringing nature back to our cities. participate fun exciting community healthy involve GROWTH environment outdoors

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learning educational 2 An exciting new era for Evergreen.

As the clock struck 12:00 a.m. on January 1, 2000, And as we enter our 10th year, we are about to we ushered in both a new millennium and an exciting strengthen our national presence with the launch turning point for our organization. of the Evergreen Canada Initiative. This initiative is a series of projects that will take Evergreen First of all, we look different. Our fresh new logo across the country and help all Canadians restore stands out and captures the true spirit of Evergreen and enhance the natural environment. — bringing people and nature together. And our shortened name is catchy and contemporary. The Evergreen Canada Initiative is a profound and significant way to celebrate the new millennium, We also have a new mission statement, one that by bringing together the energy and efforts of more thoroughly describes our goals and dreams. EVERGREEN thousands of Canadians dedicated to healing and regenerating our urban environments — on school grounds, on publicly accessible lands, and on home landscapes.

Evergreen’s mission is to bring communities and nature

together for the benefit of both. We engage people

in creating and sustaining healthy, dynamic outdoor

spaces — in our schools, our communities and our homes.

We believe that local stewardship creates vibrant

neighbourhoods, a healthy natural environment and

a sustainable society for all. 3

BUILDING ON OUR SUCCESS A LOOK BACK AT NINE GREAT YEARS

To do this we are building on the success of our The past nine years have held many successes for two existing programs — Learning Grounds and Evergreen. Throughout the report, you’ll hear from Common Grounds — and creating a new program, some of the people who have been a part of our Home Grounds. projects over the years.

We are making these programs even more accessible We are looking forward to an exciting and challeng- to individuals and groups across the country ing new era in the history of Evergreen. We hope through education and public outreach programs, you’ll join us as we strive to create vibrant the development of easy-to-use, practical resource neighbourhoods, a healthy, natural environment, materials, a new, re-energized Web site, regional and a sustainable society for us all. workshops, and our first national conference.

And to meet the challenges of becoming a larger Early morning tree planting, Ossington Old Orchard Public School, Toronto, Ontario. national organization, we have strengthened our infrastructure and board governance, upgraded our The exciting new Evergreen Geoffrey Cape Krista Kerr technology, and increased our staff. Canada Initiative is a series Executive Director Chair, Board of Directors of projects that will take As always, we are thankful for the contributions Evergreen across the country and encouragement of our financial partners, and help all Canadians restore which help us to reach more and more Canadians and enhance the natural every day. environment.

Geoffrey Cape Executive Director, Evergreen

We can never have enough of nature.

Henry David Thoreau. 4 We have made cities to live in, now we must make them livable.

Over 83% of Canadians live in cities — up over We touch the lives of Canadians through three 27% since 1970. key programs:

This tremendous increase in the urban population Learning Grounds: brings students, teachers has placed great stress on our natural systems. and neighbourhoods together to transform barren Waterways are being polluted, air quality is being asphalt and turf school grounds into natural damaged, and the availability of diverse, natural “outdoor classrooms”. green spaces is steadily decreasing as we build Common Grounds: encourages communities more roads, buildings, and houses. to work together to create vibrant natural areas Now, more than ever, there is a need to restore in the public spaces they share. natural green spaces in our cities, towns and Home Grounds: helps Canadians restore and villages. This will not only help heal the damage enhance the natural environment right where they we have caused to the environment, it will live — in their front and back yards. The natural world makes an ideal classroom, Rogers Elementary School, Victoria, British Columbia. make vibrant, natural landscapes a part of every

Communities that work Canadian’s life. Evergreen brings these three programs to life by together to regenerate and supplying the resources needed to transform urban MAKING OUR CITIES HEALTHIER environments, enabling people through training reinvest in their neighbour- programs and the creation of networks, and leading hoods are healthier, more Evergreen is helping to create healthier cities by site restoration activities. economically dynamic working with communities to naturalize their urban and safer. areas, enhance their green spaces, and plant native trees, shrubs and flowers. Dr. Fraser Mustard Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

According to surveys done by Environics, another “great, green wave” is swelling in public opinion and the environment is again becoming the most important concern for 73% of Canadians.

National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy The Evergreen Canada Initiative. 5 Creating a healthier, greener Canada

CREATING A HEALTHIER, THIS IS AS MUCH ABOUT PEOPLE GREENER CANADA AS IT IS ABOUT NATURE

We are celebrating the creation of a healthier, This initiative is as much about people and greener Canada with the Evergreen Canada communities as it is about planting native trees, Initiative. shrubs and wildflowers. It’s about strangers working together and becoming neighbours, and As we enter the new millennium, more and more creating new, accessible opportunities for Canadians are realizing that a healthy, vibrant, people to experience nature. After all, community natural environment should not be found only in gardens don’t just grow plants — they grow national parks and the wilderness. Nature needs to community spirit. be integral to our thriving urban centres.

A SPRING LAUNCH A STRONG, NEW, GREEN LEGACY

Since spring signals the start of the growing season Students gain the benefits of responsibility when caring for a garden they helped create. The goal of this initiative is to create healthier and symbolizes the rebirth of life after the long communities by bringing people together to enhance winter rest period, it is fitting that we launch the Preventing “dis-ease”, ecological biodiversity and environmental health. Evergreen Canada Initiative in the spring of 2000. by making nature the child’s Over the next three years we will create a strong, playscape, is far less costly We will build on the success of our Learning new, green legacy by creating a national program monetarily and emotionally Grounds and Common Grounds programs, and of green infrastructure on publicly accessible than trying to cure the effects launch Home Grounds, in the following ways: lands. There will be more than 2,000 new public of such deprivation later. gardens created, greenways started, buried streams • National Outreach and Public Education Program Anita Rui Olds daylighted, wetlands restored and rooftops • Resource “Tool Sheds” for Learning Grounds, Children’s Environments Quarterly greened. We will work with partners across Canada Common Grounds and Home Grounds to leave an important network of resources and • Regional Workshops and a National Conference. programs that will continue to support and create urban green spaces for generations to come. 6

A NATIONAL OUTREACH AND PUBLIC our Web site, these materials will guide Canadians EDUCATION PROGRAM of different backgrounds and ages through all stages of project planning and development, and We are developing a strong communications encourage them to get involved in restoring the campaign to inspire more and more Canadians to urban environment where they live. get involved in restoring the environment on school grounds, publicly accessible lands REGIONAL WORKSHOPS AND A and their home landscapes. We’re working with NATIONAL CONFERENCE ZiG Inc., a Toronto-based “ideas company”, who will be lending their expertise and creativity To share ideas, build support for restoring urban to help us create awareness of the importance landscapes, and celebrate successes, we are of greening — and to find innovative new ways to planning to hold five regional workshops. Youth involve people of all ages. forums will be an important part of these workshops, which will be held in Halifax, Ottawa, Winnipeg, The power of investigation and discovery. RESOURCE TOOL SHEDS Calgary and Vancouver. A national conference The Evergreen Canada is also scheduled for Toronto in the fall of 2001. Initiative provides the tools This is the creation of a collection of practical and resources needed to “how-to” resource guides and materials. Available harness and celebrate the on video, in printed form, and digitally through energy of the thousands of individuals and groups working across the country to heal and regenerate First impressions are really the important impressions and, if you’re a little kid, urban environments. you need to understand three things: 1. That you live in a really big city that

has joys and dangers and that you need to learn about both; 2. It is a place where

you can make and create your own community that will fulfill your needs as

a human being; 3. It is a place where there is nature. School yards and schools

should reflect the city, the community and nature.

Hon. David Crombie, Chair, Waterfront Regeneration Trust, former Mayor of Toronto The Evergreen Canada Initiative partners. 7

The Evergreen Canada Initiative is made possible around their homes and gardens. Through funding through the generous support of individual and on-air support from this 24-hour specialty cable We are proud to partner with Canadians, foundations, businesses, and various channel, Evergreen is able to spread its message Evergreen in a project that government agencies. to millions of viewers. demonstrates how the people of Canada are marking the THE MILLENNIUM BUREAU OF CANADA SUNCOR ENERGY FOUNDATION millennium, and at the same time sharing something Our sincere appreciation goes to the Millennium We are proud to announce the formation of a new about themselves with other Bureau of Canada for helping us launch the partnership with the Suncor Energy Foundation, Canadians. Evergreen Canada Initiative. Through its Canada and the creation of the Suncor Energy Foundation Millennium Partnership Program (CMPP), Evergreen Common Grounds Grants. Suncor Energy Foundation The Honourable Herb Gray was awarded $2.86 million in funding to celebrate is a lead partner of our millennium initiative, Deputy Prime Minister and mark the millennium with this project. The and this year will help improve green spaces CMPP was created by the federal government to by awarding grants of $100,000 to each of three encourage Canadians to work together to develop communities where it operates — Calgary and millennium projects that will involve and benefit Fort McMurray, Alberta, and Sarnia, Ontario. You Canadians. can learn more about these grants in our section on Common Grounds. HOME & GARDEN TELEVISION NEW PARTNERS HGTV and Evergreen are about A valued partner since 1998, Home & Garden as logical, natural, and ideal a Television (HGTV Canada) has renewed it’s To continue helping Canadians restore and enhance fit as we could imagine. commitment to Evergreen for 2000. HGTV and public green spaces, gardens and lawns, we are Evergreen are a natural fit, as the goal of HGTV is enlisting the support of corporations, organizations Walter Levitt to educate and inspire Canadians by showing and individuals from across the country. If you Vice-President, Marketing Broadcasting, them how to enhance everything they do in and would like to become involved, please contact us. Alliance Atlantis

Like Evergreen, we believe that when we use the land, we. should restore it for future generations and for other species.

Sue Lee, President, Suncor Energy Foundation. 8 Learning Grounds.

Learning Grounds brings students, teachers, classrooms. To date, these schools have planted and neighbourhoods together to transform barren, 1,400 native species with the hands and help asphalt and turf school grounds into natural of 3,000 students, teachers, parents and other “outdoor classrooms”. community volunteers.

Evergreen West also offered the Growing Active EVERGREEN IN THE SCHOOLS – workshop series to take participants through the THE 1999 CURRICULUM process of transforming school grounds, and is Under the Model Schools Project, and with funding producing an inspirational B.C. case study book from Environment Canada, Evergreen helped more called Stewards and Story Tellers: The Greening than 110 schools in Atlantic Canada, Quebec, British of British Columbia School Grounds. This year, Columbia and Ontario transform traditional asphalt teachers in B.C. will be able to teach outdoors school grounds into meadows, ponds, flower gardens using Evergreen’s new school ground activity book and vegetable patches. Children at these schools Plants, Patterns and Playgrounds. Involvement equals investment. now have a close-up, hands-on opportunity to learn By restoring their school in an ever-changing, complex natural environment. LEARNING GROUNDS GRANTS ground, students had a A big part of the success of Learning Grounds this chance to be part of GREENING SCHOOL GROUNDS past year was thanks to the generosity of our the community — to see ON THE WEST COAST that they have a part to play financial partners. In 1999 these partners donated in making their community Over the last two years our Vancouver office has $80,000, making it possible for us to award a better place to live. been involved in the B.C. Model Schools Project grants to schools across the country to naturalize helping 20 B.C. schools transform parts of their their grounds. Teacher, Glenforest Secondary School, school grounds into habitat areas and outdoor Mississauga, Ontario

We can play without hurting our knees, and there are a lot more birds and butterflies to watch.

Student, age 6 9

Thanks to the Regional Municipality of Hamilton- Wentworth, Enbridge Consumers Gas, and B.C. Hydro for helping over 20,000 students plant more than 4,000 native trees and shrubs on their school grounds in 1999.

A COMMUNITY COMES TOGETHER IN RURAL BRITISH COLUMBIA

Operated by the Cowichan Tribes Band, the ’Iiyus Stlul’iqu¨l School shared a desolate outdoor area of brush and rocks with a daycare and an adult training centre.

With a $500 grant from Evergreen, the three groups got together to transform their shared outdoor When we’re studying space into a garden with native plants, shrub borders science, the students can and trails. touch and see the plants Everyone helped with the planting — with children our ancestors used. from the school and daycare working side-by-side It brings us all closer. with adults from the training centre. The school is Program coordinator, now planning to invite tribe elders to the garden Ya Thuy Thut Adult Training Centre l School, British Columbia, learn about the importance of plants to their culture and history. ¨ to talk about the importance of the plants to their ul’iqu culture and history. Students at ’Iiyus Stl 10 Creating a healthy habitat.

With the help of an Enbridge Consumers Gas Learning Grounds Grant — and other local and corporate supporters — Harrison Public School in Georgetown, Ontario, transformed 20,000 square feet of underused playground into a healthy home for native plants and a fantastic living classroom for environmental studies.

Learning Grounds is a unique education program that empowers parents, children and teachers to make a difference, and take pride in their local contribution to a more Once upon a time in a dry, cracked natural environment. school yard in Georgetown, Ontario, Rudy Riedl a dream was born. To turn this unused President, Enbridge Consumers Gas land into a habitat garden where

Transforming an unused playground into outdoor classroom, Harrison Public School, Georgetown, Ontario. plants, birds, animals — and most importantly, children — could grow healthy and strong.

Teachers, Harrison Public School, Georgetown, Ontario Learning Grounds in 2000. 11

Our work in school grounds across the country Also new this spring will be a set of inspiring continues with the Evergreen Canada Initiative. Learning Grounds videos called A Crack in the Pavement — produced with Artemis Films and the LEARNING GROUNDS TOOL SHED National Film Board of Canada. In addition we will continue to publish The Outdoor Classroom, Through the Evergreen Canada Initiative we will be our annual newsletter of Learning Ground expanding the Learning Grounds resource materials, success stories, tips and information. to better help involve students, teachers, and community members in all aspects of their school Future Tool Shed items include a national ground naturalization project. Case Study Book, a series of How-To Fact Sheets covering school ground design tips, In 2000 we have several Tool Shed projects under- a national Curriculum Activity Book and way, including All Hands in the Dirt: A Guide to Policy Guidelines for school board trustees Designing and Creating Natural School Grounds, and and administrators. Nature Nurtures: Investigating the Potential of Plant it and they will come.

School Grounds. Using the real world is the way learning has happened for 99.9% of human existence. Only in the last hundred years have we put it in a little box called a classroom.

Gerald Lieberman Come forth into. Co-author of Closing the Achievement Gap the light of things, Let nature be. your teacher.

William Wordsworth. 12 Common Grounds.

EVERGREEN IN THE COMMUNITY — WHERE EDGES MEET A LOOK AT 1999 Where Edges Meet celebrates the diversity of Common Grounds encourages community involve- nature and cities by creating community ment to create vibrant natural areas in the public naturalization gardens in ethnically diverse spaces we share. This not only helps to restore downtown areas. In 1998 and 1999, Where Edges the environment, it promotes a sense of pride, Meet formed partnerships with residents of the cooperation and belonging among Canadians in Toronto communities of St. James Town, Parkdale their communities. Here are some of the highlights and the Annex, to restore neglected neighbourhood from 1999: parks. Since then, over 1,800 native plants have been planted in woodland and meadow gardens, ECOSUMMER and Evergreen has held more than 50 garden work- shops, planting events and community celebrations. Started in 1991, EcoSummer (formerly known as A new garden is being planned in 2000 with the St. James Town residents transform their local park, Toronto, Ontario. the Community Naturalization Program) has engaged residents of the Moss Park area. It’s good to see the over 30,000 people of all ages in understanding community rally around and appreciating their local natural environment by Thanks to our Where Edges Meet funding partners: an under-used park and planting native trees, shrubs and wildflowers, and Environment Canada – EcoAction 2000, Toronto make a difference. helping to bring back the natural beauty of our Community Foundation and Canada Trust Friends public areas. During 1998 and 1999, in partnership of the Environment Foundation. An Annex neighbourhood resident, with the City of Toronto Parks and Recreation Toronto Department, EcoSummer focused its efforts on the Don Valley Brick Works in Toronto, involving more than 3,000 volunteers in creating a 1.6 hectare native wildflower meadow and wetland garden. Thanks to all of the EcoSummer continues in 2000 by training volunteers Where Edges Meet community to take over the care and continuing naturalization gardeners for helping to bring of this and other sites across Toronto. nature back to their city. 13

A BUTTERFLY GARDEN FOR ST. JAMES TOWN

St. James Town West Park in downtown Toronto is rio. home to people from many different cultural groups. Now it is also home to a whole new community of butterflies and birds.

After the City demolished an abandoned building, the residents of St. James Town worked with Evergreen to plant 49 species of native plants — many of which attract butterflies and birds. The new Butterfly Garden was launched with a fall fair of food, music and dancing, which brought together the diverse cultures of the neighbourhood.

I don’t know how often community gardening projects draw 300 people in a single day, and include hundreds of people from the Tamil, Philippino and Chinese communities, We appreciate (Evergreen’s) efforts to but the Where Edges Meet Spring Fair did just that. beautify St. James Town West Park. Pam McConnell The people of this community needed Councillor, Don River and deserved a space like this. Besides, Community members of all ages came out to lend a hand in the planting St. James Town West Park downtown Toronto, Onta it was a wonderful opportunity for everyone to get together.

Rubina Khan, Pakistani Canadian Women’s Association 14

CUBA-CANADA ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION PARTNERSHIP PROJECT

Evergreen has also helped with international urban restoration and environmental awareness projects. Since 1997 we have been partners with the Cuban-based organizations, La Fundacion Antonio Nuñez Jiménez de la Naturaleza y el Hombre and El Parque Metropolitano de la Habana, on a variety of projects — including revitalizing land in central Havana by establishing a native tree nursery, and helping five Havana schools transform their school grounds into healthy, green outdoor classrooms.

Our thanks to the Canadian International Development Agency’s Environment and Sustainable Development Program for supporting this project. Havana school children and teachers take part in their first educational tree planting, Havana, Cuba. Common Grounds in 2000. 15

Through the Evergreen Canada Initiative, Common These grants will be used to support greening Grounds will expand its outreach to engage a projects in communities where Suncor operates. national audience. Besides showing Suncor’s commitment to the environment and community, these projects provide COMMON GROUNDS TOOL SHED an opportunity for Suncor employees to roll-up their sleeves and volunteer their time and effort We will be developing a variety of Common Grounds to improve their community. resource materials to help communities restore their natural areas.

In 2000 two new Common Grounds Tool Shed items will be developed — No Plot is too Small: A Community’s Guide to Restoring Public Landscapes and Ground Work: Investigating the Need for

Nature in the City. Future Tool Shed items include Making discovery an everyday experience. a Case Study Book, a series of How-To Fact Sheets, Ode to Grassy Places a Policy Guideline for park and land managers, and an inspiring Common Grounds Video which will Happy hearts and happy faces profile successful naturalization projects from Happy play in grassy places — coast-to-coast. That was how, in ancient ages Children grew to kings and sages. SUNCOR ENERGY FOUNDATION Robert Louis Stevenson COMMON GROUNDS GRANTS

As a lead partner of the Evergreen Canada Initiative, the Suncor Energy Foundation is providing grants of $100,000 each to the Alberta communities of Calgary and Fort McMurray, and the Ontario community of Sarnia. 16 Home Grounds.

EVERGREEN AT HOME and back yards give us the perfect opportunity to plant a garden, revitalize a patch of ground, Home Grounds is a new program that encourages create habitat for wildlife, and help naturalize the Canadians to use environmentally-friendly lawncare urban landscape. practices at home. The timing is right to add this new focus to our Developed under the Evergreen Canada Initiative, programs. Young people are concerned about the this program is a “take home” version of Learning damage we have done to the environment and want Grounds and Common Grounds. to become involved in greening activities. And as After all, why should we only think of school the baby boomers age, their interests are moving grounds and public green spaces when it comes to towards more reflective and nurturing pastimes, restoring the natural environment? Our own front like tending their own garden.

THE HOME GROUNDS TOOL SHED Butterflies invited to a public garden, Montgomery’s Meadow, Toronto, Ontario.

During 2000 we will be developing the first Home DoGardening you have is anotherhot news quote Grounds Tool Shed item — a Getting Started Guide. tofor put baby in boomers.this box? It’sDo you havethe number another one quotation hobby In partnership with the Canadian Mortgage toin putNorth in America.this box? Do and Housing Corporation, Home Grounds will be you have another quote to releasing a summary research piece, Comparing The Globe and Mail put in this box? the Cost and Resource Efficiency of 7 Residential Landscape Options. The Globe and Mail Future Tool Shed items include an inspirational Home Grounds Video filled with practical “how-to” tips. A new Evergreen Web site. 17

LAUNCH DATE IS SET FOR MAY 2000 New features include an on-line registry designed to collect and share information on school and Thanks to a [email protected] grant from community naturalization efforts, to profile the Ontario Government, Ministry of Citizenship, naturalization projects, and to generate and collect Culture and Recreation we are completely rebuilding data for monitoring and evaluating programs. our Web site. We will also be able to encourage volunteerism in Our newly designed and expanded Web site is naturalization projects right over the Internet. going to be a vital element of all our programs, But most important of all, this interactive, as well as our public outreach and education fun site will link groups and individuals from across initiatives. No matter where they live, Canadians Ontario and the rest of Canada so we can share will have clear, up-to-date information on all of ideas, learn from each other, and make valuable our programs, and will learn about how they can networking contacts. get involved in greening urban environments. www.evergreen.ca 18 Statement of financial position. As at July 31

in dollars 1999 1998

ASSETS

Cash 56,508 – Accounts receivable 259,446 56,433 Prepaid expenses 2,497 2,283 318,451 58,716 Capital assets, net 18,022 22,606 336,473 81,322

LIABILITIES

Inspired by the beauty of nature, Princess Royal Public School, Nanaimo, British Columbia. Bank indebtedness – 22,224 Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 52,048 25,104 A child’s world is fresh and Deferred revenue 265,000 – new and beautiful, full of 317,048 47,328 wonder and excitement. It is NET ASSETS 19,425 33,994 our misfortune that for most 336,473 81,322 of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, On behalf of the Board is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

Rachel Carson in Silent Spring

Geoffrey Cape Krista Kerr Executive Director Chair, Board of Directors Statement of operations and changes in net assets. 19 Year ended July 31

in dollars 1999 1998

REVENUE

Corporate 138,066 206,259 Government 425,517 112,769 Foundations 106,699 160,134 Donations-in-kind 297,813 298,109 Service fees 5,864 30,909 Fundraising events, net – 30,534 Individual donations and other 20,198 25,452 994,157 864,166

EXPENSES An exciting outdoor learning environment, Humber Valley Middle School, Toronto, Ontario.

The school ground Salaries and fees 388,153 286,723 naturalization movement Program 481,262 428,061 is perhaps the strongest Events 5,618 40,276 and most vibrant of all Travel and transportation 24,281 5,668 the school greening efforts Administration currently underway on General administrative and office supplies 31,880 37,119 this continent. Occupancy 30,292 30,906 Professional and consulting fees 40,791 3,059 Tim Grant Depreciation 6,449 5,946 Co-editor, Green Teacher 1,008,726 837,758 (Deficiency) excess of revenue over expenses (14,569) 26,408 Net assets, beginning of year 33,994 7,586 Net assets, end of year 19,425 33,994 20 Evergreen partnerships.

CASH AND IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS $15,000 - $24,999 Ecology Action Centre B.C. Hydro The George Lunan Foundation Our thanks to individuals and these organizations B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands, and Parks – Happy Planet who made it possible in 1999 for Evergreen to Environment Youth Team Human Resources Development Canada continue to make Canada’s urban centres greener Canada Lands Company Ltd. Kevin Louis Design and healthier: Canada Trust Friends of the Environment Metro Credit Union Foundation OutThere Authentic Adventurewear $100,000+ R. Howard Webster Foundation Parkdale/Liberty Economic Development Committee Canada Trust Portables Plus Ltd. Millennium Bureau of Canada $10,000 — 14,999 Royal Botanical Gardens Ontario Ministry of Citizenship, Culture & Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Savings and Credit Unions of British Columbia Recreation ([email protected]) The Home Depot Scotiabank Royal Bank of Canada $50,000+ ScotiaMcleod Inc. Toronto Dominion Bank Arts and Communications Tayfam Investments Inc. Canadian International Development Agency $5,000 - $9,999 Teletoon City of Toronto Parks and Recreation B.C. Gas 1988 Foundation Environment Canada – EcoAction 2000 Helen McCrea Peacock Foundation $500 - $999 Scott Thornley and Company The Neptis Foundation Annex Residents Association The Schad Foundation $25,000 - $49,999 Carrot Common Corporation Scott Consulting Inc. Canadian Council for Human Resources CCH Canadian Limited VanCity in the Environment Industry Domino’s Pizza Enbridge Consumers Gas $1,000 - $4,999 Hazeldine Press HGTV Canada American Express Foundation Peter Ronn Regional Municipality of Hamilton-Wentworth Ben & Jerry’s The Printing House Toronto Community Foundation Capers Starbucks Vancouver Foundation Citizens Bank of Canada United Way of Greater Toronto Credit Union Central B.C. Vocal Point Evergreen Board members. 21

BOARD OF DIRECTORS BOARD OF ADVISORS, TORONTO BOARD OF ADVISORS, VANCOUVER

Hon. David Crombie, Honourary Chair J. Christopher Cape David Brown Chair, Waterfront Regeneration Trust Cape Ryan Dr. Tara Cullis Krista Kerr, Chair Michael Davies David Suzuki Foundation Vice-President, Kerr Financial Corporation The Davies Charitable Foundation Mavis Dixon Jim Harbell, Secretary Michael Hough James Dungate Partner, Stikeman, Elliott Hough, Woodland, Naylor, Dance Victor Elderton Douglas Heighington, Director Sydney McMorran Vancouver Outdoor School Vice-President, National Bank Financial Hon. Michael Meighen Dr. Moura Quayle Bonnie Hillman, Director Meighen Demers University of British Columbia Kevin McLaughlin, Director David Stonehouse Ross Waddell Vice-President Business Development, AutoShare City of Toronto Native Plant Society of B.C. Leith Moore, Director Adam Zimmerman Vice-President Land Tactics, The Sorbara Group

Craig Strong, Director Environmental Services Consultant, Deloitte & Touche

Mark Wilson, Director Project Executive, IBM Global Services

HONOURARY PATRON

Hon. Hilary Weston Lieutenant Governor of Ontario 22 Making Evergreen work.

EVERGREEN STAFF EVERGREEN WEST STAFF 1998 / 1999 Shaugn Schwartz Geoffrey Cape Regional Director, Western Canada Executive Director [email protected] [email protected] Denise Philippe Seana Irvine Program Manager, Western Canada Program Director [email protected] [email protected] Leela Chinniah Cam Collyer E-team Intern National Manager Learning Grounds Natalie Lerch [email protected] Researcher Catherine Goetz Toronto Manager Common Grounds NEW EVERGREENERS (since July 1999) Satya Ramen Common Grounds Coordinator James Cha Operations Director Greg Carrie [email protected] Operations Manager Stewart Chisholm Sylvie Lachance National Manager Common Grounds Development Associate [email protected] [email protected] Lucy Duso Learning Grounds Associate, B.C. [email protected] 23

Ghada El Sherif OUR VALUED VOLUNTEERS Workshop Facilitator, B.C. Evergreen would not be able to carry out its work Kathy Lee restoring the natural environment without the Program Associate countless hours of time from dedicated volunteers from coast-to-coast. Anne Marie Lewis Toronto Manager Common Grounds A special thank you to Jean Riley for her hard work [email protected] and support in securing funding for the Evergreen Canada Initiative. Janet McCausland Communications Director If you would like to become involved as an [email protected] Evergreen volunteer, please check out our Web site at www.evergreen.ca for a variety of opportunities. Diane Michaud Administrative Assistant [email protected]

Winnie Tam Development and Communications Manager, Western Canada [email protected]

Fleur Tweedie Communications Associate Thank you to all the volunteers [email protected] who have generously donated their time to Evergreen and restoration projects across Canada!

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