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Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation

Toronto, ON, CA • 20 - 49 Employees
Waste/Recycling/Environmental

The Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation is a not-for-profit organization. The Foundation is dedicated to promoting and sustaining the Greenbelt as a beneficial, valuable, and permanent feature, enhancing the quality of life for all residents of Ontario. Wrapping around the Golden Horseshoe, the Greenbelt is 1.8 million acres of potential to make Ontario, and the earth, a better place. Encompassing the Niagara Escarpment, the Oak Ridges Moraine, Rouge Park, hundreds of rural towns and villages and over 7,000 farms, Ontario's Greenbelt is the largest and most diverse in the world.The Foundation helps champion a vast array of projects and approaches through grants to to make the Greenbelt a dynamic and self-sustaining entity. We support a variety of activities in the following three program areas: * Promoting Greenbelt-grown food; * Greening the Greenbelt through cleaner air and cleaner water; and * Inspiring innovation in the Greenbelt.The Foundation's vision is a vibrant and healthy Greenbelt with a protected and restored natural environment, a strong and successful rural countryside, a robust agricultural sector, and a pattern of urban settlement that supports the Greenbelt.