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What Would You Do For 32?

Since October, residents of the region have been telling us what they would do with an extra 32 minutes in their day—now it’s time to show us what you would do for 32. Go to your32.com to show your support for better transportation and demand action from your elected officials. It’s time to get our politicians moving. Read more

DiverseCity Fellows 2013 Call for Applications

Enhance your ability to make a difference, deepen your understanding of issues facing the region, and build a more diverse network in CivicAction’s DiverseCity Fellows leadership program. Read more

Meet Ten Faces of CivicAction

CivicAction's impact to date is thanks to a broad cross-section of volunteer civic leaders from across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area who have driven collective action. These 10 people are rising and established leaders who represent and reflect CivicAction's initiatives, and key moments in its history. Read more

CivicAction Progress Report

In July 2011, CivicAction released “Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region”, a summary of the social, economic and environmental issues discussed at the Greater Toronto Summit 2011 and the key recommendations it produced. In this progress report, we outline how CivicAction has contributed to addressing these issues over the past year. Read more

John Tory, Chair, CivicAction

John Tory helped to found the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance and served on the Board of Directors before becoming the voluntary Chair. Read more

Greening Greater Toronto

An initiative of CivicAction, Greening Greater Toronto is a unique partnership of individuals and organizations across the Toronto region committed to making our collective vision a reality. As a vital link between the public, private and non-profit sectors, we work to dissolve misalignments between key stakeholders and accelerate the greening process. Read more

DiverseCity: The Greater Toronto Leadership Project

DiverseCity: The Greater Toronto Leadership Project is an initiative of Maytree and the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance, funded in part by the Government of Ontario. With its nine initiatives, the project is changing the face of our region's leadership. Read more

Emerging Leaders Network (ELN)

Members of ELN meet monthly and have generated innovative city-building projects and events such as Toronto Homecoming, Project Neutral, Better Ballots and ELNstudio. The network is co-chaired by Rob Drynan (Jays Care Foundation), Andrew Graham (The Weston Group) and Salima Rawji (Build Toronto). Read more

Greater Toronto Summit 2011

The 2011 Summit took place on February 10th and 11th. In preparation for the Summit, CivicAction undertook a broad-based consultative process involving over 1000 people in working groups, regional roundtable discussions, and one-on-one consultation in order to inform thinking and identify the potential actions that can be implemented. Read more

CivicAction – Our Initiatives

CivicAction takes a role in incubating innovative initiatives designed to galvanize action on the tough issues and big opportunities affecting the Toronto region. We’ve worked on over a dozen projects to improve the social and economic future of the Toronto region. Read more

CivicAction’s DiverseCity Fellows 2013 Call for Applications

New poll results: GTA residents link diverse leadership with economic growth

New study suggests Torontonians make links between diversity and success

Latest DiverseCity-Nanos Research report: Does the diversity gap in leadership matter to GTA...

300 Community Leaders’ Advice to Politicians: "Time to Deliver on Region's Future. Fund...

Media advisory/photo opportunity: CivicAction Forum Report – 300 community leaders to politicians...

York Region Mayors and Councillors Announce Support for Transportation Investment through...

More mayors pledge support for CivicAction plan