Featured Programs
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Green Economy Peterborough
Home Energy
Living Cities
Rain Garden Subsidy Program
Active School Travel Peterborough
Summer Camps
All programs
Active School Travel Peterborough
Bike Riding Education Resources
Climate Action Resource for Schools
Community Orchard Stewards
Count Week
Ecology Park Native Plant and Tree Nursery
Green Economy Peterborough
GreenUP Community Beekeeping Program
Home Energy
Let’s Bike Events
Little Forest Kits
Living Cities
Peterborough Children’s Water Festival
Rain Barrels + Rebates
Rain Garden Subsidy Program
Shifting Gears
Summer Camps
Summer Ride Club
Key Funders
City of Peterborough
Ontario Trillium Foundation
County of Peterborough
The Living Cities Canada program from Green Communities Canada is advancing green infrastructure (GI) in cities and towns across the country. We envision communities from coast to coast where green infrastructure—wetlands and woodlands, tree-lined streets, parks, bioswales, rain gardens, green roofs and permeable pavements—is equitable, abundant, and thriving.
The Township of Douro-Dummer is a quaint rural community comprised of small and large businesses, farmlands, beautiful lakes and rivers, parks, walking trails, and recreational opportunities.
The RBC Foundation has been developing policies and building programs to reduce our environmental impact since 1991.
The Otonabee Region Conservation Authority is a community-based environmental agency that protects, restores and manages the natural resources within the Otonabee Region watershed. Otonabee Conservation works with its eight member municipalities to create a healthy, environmentally diverse watershed that improves the quality of life for residents, makes our area more appealing to visitors and new business, and helps to ensure a more vibrant regional economy.
Nourish is all about food. Nourish is a collaborative partnership between GreenUP, YWCA Peterborough Haliburton, and Peterborough Public Health. Nourish cultivates health, builds community, and promotes fairness through innovative programs dedicated to eating, cooking, growing, and advocating for good food.
The Sustainable Neighbourhood
Action Program (SNAP) works with the GreenUP Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood (SUN) program in an advisory capacity.
SNAP is a collaborative, neighbourhood-based solution for advancing sustainable urban renewal and climate action in older urban areas. SNAP helps municipalities and organizations improve efficiencies, draw strong local community support and build innovative partnerships for implementation of a broad range of initiatives in the public and private realms. By reframing environmental projects to incorporate greater social and economic outcomes, SNAP has helped to generate creative solutions that garner more support for implementation.
One of the largest grantmakers in Canada, Ontario Trillium Foundation is unique for its deployment of 330 volunteers to review and analyze more than 3,000 grant applications each year. To make great grants that help create vibrant and healthy communities, program staff rely on our volunteers to bring their knowledge of local community needs and sectoral expertise to the grant review process.
The Trillium Foundation has recently supported GreenUP through two grants:
- Community Building Fund grant of $52,800 to retrofit and restore the Children’s Garden
- Resilient Communities Fund grant of $80,900 to rebuild and recover from impacts of COVID-19
The Trillium Foundation is currently celebrating their 40th anniversary. Follow the celebration online with the #40Moments.
The County of Peterborough is an upper tier municipality that is responsible for a range of municipal services that affect the citizens of Peterborough County. These services include: Planning, GIS, Administration and Council Services, Human Resources, Purchasing, Finance, IT, EMS, and Public Works.
The City of Peterborough supports GreenUP through an annual Community Service Grant. This funding supports many of our programs and services which positively impact Peterborough residents each day.