L.E.A.F. 2025
How it Works
L.E.A.F. is back in 2025 awarding $400,000 in grants for community projects that support learning, resiliency, growth and capacity improvements for our communities to thrive in the long-term.
Submit a Project
Get started and we’ll guide you through each step to help ensure you include everything required.
- Have all your project details ready
- Highlight community impact
- Tell us about your project
Support a Project
Get started and we’ll guide you through each step to help ensure you include everything required.
- Leave a comment
- Add a story or image
- Share on your socials
projects overview
Take a look at all the great projects
Explore the map to see inspiring projects happening across local communities. Search by address or view the full list to discover what’s growing near you.
Search results:
- Project NameLocation
think big!
Here are some ideas to help you get started
What facilities, community centres or education spaces could use programming or space improvements to accelerate learning and engagement in your community? Where do you need more room, more capacity, better environments? And how will you put the grant to work to grow the community resiliency that comes from learning, working and connecting together?
support a project
How To Inspire Local Support
When our communities improve, everyone wins. That’s why we know you won’t have a hard time gaining support for your project. To make it simple, we’ve created four ways your community can demonstrate that support, and each time they do, your community project page grows and your submission is strengthened!
Add a Story of Support
Would you or someone you love benefit from this new community space or proposed improvements to the existing one? Does this gathering place or community activity hold a special place in your heart? Share your connection, your memories or your hopes for a new space. Tell us what this means to you.
Add an Image
A picture is worth a thousand words. Show us what learning, playing, gathering, and connecting looks like at the community facility you’d like to support. Or show us an outcome this facility has helped achieve – for example, your harvest from a community garden.
Leave a Comment
Short and sweet does the trick too. Leave a simple comment about why you’d like to see this project earn a L.E.A.F. grant, or send a shout out to someone involved.
Share on Facebook
What better way to gain more support than by spreading the word on Facebook! Share with your friends, your neighbours, your colleagues and on community pages and in groups.
past recipients
Commonwell L.E.A.F. Grant Recipients
The Commonwell is proud to have supported 53 community projects so far! Explore past grant recipients and see how communities across Ontario have brought meaningful projects to life. Each one has helped spark local connection, growth, and resiliency.