The magic of a community that cares for each other can start with just one project.
Here are 37 ideas to build your community for less than $500, the maximum size of a Neighbourhood Small Grant.
You can put your grant money towards almost anything that may be needed for your project. For more information about what you can and cannot use your grant money for, please visit our FAQs.
Click on each link to be taken the story and write-up shared by the project’s organizers (also known as “project leaders” around the community).
- Make (and Eat!) Dumplings Together.
- Teach Metis Dancing over Dinner.
- Go Vote, Then Get Ice Cream.
- Cook and Give Hot Meals to Neighbours in Need.
- Cultural Cooking Workshop
- Get Together for a BBQ
- Just Have an Eat and Meet Party
- Host a Dragon Walk
- Celebrate Eid Al-Adha
- Go on a Moonlight Paddle
- Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival
- Showcase Your Local Talent
- Connect Newcomers and Immigrants
- Share Traditional Healing Knowledge
- Host a Neighbourhood Reunion of People Who Lived There in the 60s
- Test Your Knowledge of Indigenous Facts Over Bannock
- Create a Queer Literary Series
- Learn to Make Terrariums
- Talk to Teens About Housing
- Brainstorm How to Survive Cold and Flu Season
- Host a Zero Waste in the Kitchen Workshop
- Help Save the Bees
- Host a Climate Action Workshop
- Draw Vancouver Together
- The Pit Stop Teen Party
- Revive Your Street for Halloween Trick or Treaters
- Make a Little Free Library
- Know the Block Watch
- Build a Tool Shed For Your Community Garden
- Screen Your Favourite Movie
- Collect Takeout Chopsticks for Art
- Make Buttons for Protest Marches
- Kickstart a Regular Game Club
- Host a Regular Film Club
- Start a Meeples Board Game Night
- Host a Reading Event
- Have a Birthday Party for a Local Park