Community Leadership Unique Community Leadership skills training certi�cate co-created with George Brown College for Volunteer Ambassadors. They also receive additional personal leadership training offered by Fusion Strategic Inc.

P4K Hub OrganizationsLocal grassroots organizations providing leadership, coordination, and customizedactivation of P4K in their communities.

Volunteer Ambassadors/AlumniNewcomers, youth, and long-time residents recruited and stewarded at local P4KHub organizations to become community leaders.

Neighbourhood Games/Try-A-SportLocal games organized by volunteers across the city that bring communities together through play and sport.

Graduation & Galvanizing EventsGraduation ceremonies and other large scale events that inspire a greater sense of belonging and connection to a city-wide movement.

Central CoordinationBackbone support for the oversight and evolution of the collaborative using theprinciples of community development.

The foundational building blocks of P4K

Impact ReportPlaying for Keeps (P4K) builds social capital through volunteerism and play to create healthier, moreactive, and better connected communities.

Local volunteer leaders emerge with skills and opportunities. Community organizations take on abigger role as catalysts for neighbourhood engagement. And residents of all ages and backgroundscome together to meet new friends, celebrate their neighbourhoods and have fun together.

Inspired by the Pan Am/Parapan Am Games, P4K continues to carry on a critical social legacy. What'sleft behind? A deeper sense of belonging, a culture of reciprocity, and pride of place -- the building blocks of healthy, vibrant communities.

Where your support went

“I can’t believe that I get to be a leader by teaching kids how to make paper airplanes - when I see how much fun they arehaving, I know I’m doing something right.”

Creating active and healthy communities

Connecting a divided city

Newcomers, youth, and long-time residents

getting to know each other

Deepening a sense of belonging

P4K is...

Since it began, P4K has received more than $1 million in generous donations and grants. Playing forKeeps has invested this support in the community like this:

$360,000 (35%)

$115,500 (11%)

$90,000 (9%)

P4K Hubs

LeadershipTraining

Graduation and Galvanizing Events

Marketing and Sustainability Planning

Administration

$48,000 (5%)Evaluation

$240,000 (23%)

$175,000 (17%)

- Volunteer Ambassador

1,000+

85%

Top P4K outcomes

45,000 Torontonians have played in Neighbourhood Games since 2012, having fun, connecting with others, and being physically active.

More than 1,000 newcomers, youth, and long-time residents trained in Community Leadership and Personal Leadership since 2012.

85% of P4K alumni said (more than a year after their training) that they gained important skills that they continue to use.

P4K Hub organizations now incorporate Neighbourhood Games into their activities, injecting fun and spontaneous play as a way to engage and reach marginalized groups.

76% of alumni (those trained more than a year ago) said they felt a strong connection to their community.

76%

Over 1,150 NeighbourhoodGames have taken place across the city.

17 P4K Hub organizations have bene�tted from staff and volunteer capacity enhancement and also have created and expanded new partnerships with other organizations.

43% said they had strong organizing skills

In 2015 we trained 380 new Volunteer Ambassadors. We asked them how they felt about their skills before and after leadership training:

76% said they had strong organizing skills

After training,

48% said they had strong leadership skills

74% said they had strong leadership skills

74% felt connected to their community

53% felt connected to their community

45,000

Before training,

Thank you!Lead Partners

Training Partners

Supporters

P4K Hubs

Financial ContributorsIndividual Donors from Toronto Foundation: • Anonymous Fund • Bertram Family Fund • Calamor Fund • Cavelti Family Foundation • Griggs Family Foundation • John and Jocelyn Barford Family Foundation

• John and Christine Currie Foundation • Jon and Nancy Love Foundation • Karen and Bill Barnett Fund • Richard and Colleen Peddie Foundation • Townsend Family Foundation

Funding Partners: • Ontario Summer Games Legacies Fund • Ontario Trillium Foundation • Toronto Foundation • Toronto Pearson • True Sport Foundation