Bob Bahan Community Hub: Neighbourhood Grants for up to $1000!

Working with local partners and community members, community social workers look for opportunities to activate and create welcoming and inclusive gathering spaces. The goal is for these community hubs to be incubating spaces for community connections, capacity building opportunities and places where residents can access services and supports right in their community. Working alongside residents and partners, community social workers identify barriers and opportunities for residents to participate in community life.

This work contributes to the Community Hub Initiative, a citywide initiative led by The City of Calgary, Rotary Clubs of Calgary, and United Way of Calgary and Area, with the goal of strengthening neighbourhoods by prototyping and activating seven community hubs in the priority locations between 2017 and 2021, including the Bob Bahan Aquatic and Recreation Centre (Greater Forest Lawn)!

Have a great idea? Our neighbourhood grants turn local ideas into tangible actions. The CSW program offers grants of up to $1000 to residents in the eligible neighbourhoods mentioned below. Grants are awarded to resident led projects that increase social inclusion, economic participation or foster truth and reconciliation in neighbourhoods.

For more information contact NeighbourhoodGrants@calgary.ca or the community social worker, Tara Selinger at Tara.Selinger@calgary.ca.