2019 Year in Review

Thanks to our donors, TD Friends of the Environment Foundation (TD FEF) was able to help 605 local environmental projects in 2019. The projects focus on creating or revitalizing green spaces where Canadians come together to play, learn, relax and find common ground. These green initiatives are helping to build more resilient, liveable communities for everyone to enjoy. Improvements like these would not be possible without your continued support.

Your generous support is helping us create a more vibrant planet

Green by the NumbersTD Friends of the Environment Foundation (TD FEF) proudly contributes to The Ready Commitment, TD’s corporate citizenship platform to help create a more inclusive and sustainable tomorrow. We’re committed to helping nurture the environment so that people and economies can thrive. Whether you donated to TD FEF, fundraised or volunteered for a grassroots initiative, here’s what we accomplished together in 2019.

100Percentage of donations given to local initiatives: every dollar donated goes directly to fund local environmental projects

$3.8+ millionTotal amount donated to TD FEF by TD employees and customers

150,000Number of donors who contributed to TD FEF in 2019

1 million+Additional support provided by TD to support TD FEF grants and programs like TD Tree Days

605Number of local environmental projects supported across Canada

100Percentage of TD FEF’s administration costs covered by TD

TD Tree Days: Working Toward Planting One Million Trees by 2030In 2019, your donations helped add 40,000 native trees and shrubs to local tree canopies across Canada

1 million2030 tree planting target

40,000trees planted in 2019

433,000trees planted throughout North America since 2010

As part of The Ready Commitment, we’re targetting to plant one million trees by 2030 in Canada and the U.S. In 2019, TD Tree Days brought us a little closer by planting 40,000 trees. TD Tree Days planting events have been bringing people together since 2010 to help create healthy green spaces, cleaner air, wildlife habitat and resilient communities. Through TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, TD employees, families, and volunteers have:

• enhanced more than 879 green spaces since 2010;

• ensured the long-term health of the trees and ecosystem, planted the right trees in the right places thanks to expertise from conservation authorities, municipalities and Indigenous communities;

• brought together 9,422 volunteers in 2019.

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By region*

The 605 grassroots projects funded by TD FEF transformed your donations into positive change by helping to green communities from the ground up. From coordinating tree plantings and constructing outdoor classrooms to restoring waterways and building community gardens, these local projects brought together people of all ages to enhance the environment in their own backyards and across Canada.

27%Environmental Education

and Community Engagement188 projects 3%

Other9 projects

3%Trails/Park Improvement

15 projects

4%Habitat Restoration/

Naturalization28 projects

6%Citizen Science47 projects18%

Outdoor Classroom/Schoolyard Greening

160 projects

39%Urban Greening and

Biodiversity158 projects

$5,212,428605 Projects

Greening Where You Live

*Total amount rounded to the nearest whole dollar.

Greater Ontario

$1,014,263157 projects

Pacific

$601,39997 projects

Prairies

$806,53794 projects

National

$899,3126 projects

Metro East and West

$1,439,258178 projects

Quebec

$254,79440 projects

Atlantic

$196,86533 projects

By project type

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Greater Ontario: Giving kids the freedom to play in natureGrant recipient: Childreach

Attending free outdoor playgroups helped families discover the joy of unstructured playtime at forests in London. Playgroups boosted enjoyment of nature time for parents and active outdoor play for kids.

Metro East & West: Nurturing young naturalistsGrant recipient: The Riverwood Conservancy

A pilot project helped introduce 36 students to the natural world through the Junior Naturalist program at Riverwood, a Mississauga conservation area. Young people learned a variety of outdoor activities, including how to gently handle, tag and release monarch butterflies.

Pacific: Helping struggling students become environmental leadersGrant recipient: Surrey Schools – Girls in Action

Field trips about nature, conservation and environmental science helped 70 at-risk girls from inner city schools across Surrey, B.C., to increase their self-esteem, and interest in post-secondary education in science, tech, engineering and math.

Your Donations at Work: Environmental Education

Your donations helped fund

188educational

initiatives with$1,409,838

in grants

Metro East & West: Connecting refugee newcomers to natureGrant recipient: Together Project

The Urban Nature Access Pass for Refugee Newcomers with Together Project, an initiative of Tides Canada, opened nature-focused events in the Greater Toronto Area to newcomers, who often live in dense, high-rise communities with limited access to green space. Refugees had the opportunity to participate in fishing, a picnic, tree planting and gardening.

‘‘I come from a country where females are not equal to men. Girls In Action has taught me

that women are valued, strong, independent and the leaders of tomorrow.

I’d like to own a farm like the Brooksdale

Environmental Centre one day and help teach girls

how important it is to take care of our earth.”

–Grade 6 refugee student and program participant

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Greater Ontario: Adding trails at Solitude Nature ReserveGrant recipient: Phil McNamee Charitable Foundation

Thanks to an accessible 500-ft boardwalk and two viewing platforms, visitors to a Port Stanley nature reserve can now visit and observe the wetlands where birds and butterflies reside before making the long journey south across Lake Erie.

Pacific: Enhancing one of Vancouver’s last open streams Grant recipient: Still Moon Arts Society

More than 20 plants were planted to restore habitat around Burnaby’s Still Creek in a collaboration between elementary school students and Indigenous Knowledge Keepers. Funds also supported a pollinator garden, removing invasive species and enhancing bird habitat.

Quebec: Breathing new life into fallow fieldsGrant recipient: la Corporation pour la mise en valeur du Bois de l’Équerre

To mitigate the loss of field ecosystems caused by urban development and more intensive farming practices, the Corporation revitalized a one-hectare wasteland at the l’Équerre Forest in Laval, QC by adding a natural garden for pollinators. Immersive trails with interpretive panels invite visitors to explore the environment and learn about the importance of encouraging biodiversity in open fields and meadows.

Your Donations at Work: Parks & Green Spaces

Your donations helped fund

127Green Space

revitalizations with$1,782,213

in funding

‘‘The support from TD Friends of the

Environment Foundation has allowed us to share this special ecosystem

with the public, inspiring more New Brunswickers to act as champions for

forest protection.”

–Daimen Hardie, Executive Director, Community Forests

International

Atlantic: Expanding hiking trails near Fundy National ParkGrant recipient: Community Forests International

An award-winning non-profit that fights climate change by protecting forests added three kilometres of hiking trails to its recent acquisition of land at the Pace Forest. The path shows the benefits of a well-managed forest, with mature tamarack trees on one side of the trail and a flourishing stand of hardwoods on the other.

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Greater Ontario: Outdoor learning gets top marksGrant recipient: Little Falls Public School

Nature served as a second teacher for 500 young people in St. Mary’s, Ontario. The students had regular active, hands-on experiences in natural settings through the Nature Education Awareness Program.

Prairie: Creating a natural learning hubGrant recipient: Rosemont Elementary School

A Calgary school created an activity hub in a barren schoolyard by expanding an outdoor classroom and adding a natural obstacle course. Including mature trees in the usable area and creating natural pathways and sitting areas made the space more inviting for open air learning while enjoying time in nature.

Quebec: Giving a schoolyard a green makeoverGrant recipient: Groupe de recommandations et d’actions pour un meilleur environnement (GRAME)

A local ecology group partnered with a school to create a green setting to nurture environmental stewardship in students. The project added native trees, fruit shrubs and other edible and pollinator plants, covering 25% of the school yard, while increasing the biodiversity of the local ecosystem and providing a new space for students to learn.

Your Donations at Work: Schools

Your donations helped fund

160school projects

with$959,956

in funding

Pacific: Helping school gardens blossom Grant recipient: LifeCycles Project Society – Growing Schools Program

Staff and volunteers installed, expanded or nurtured 12 school gardens on Vancouver Island by planting 2,050 fruit and veggie seeds and seedlings; 630 native flower seeds and seedlings; 350 perennial flower seeds; and 50 seedlings for herbs and berries.

‘‘I loved making animals dens in the fall and trying to build birds’ nests in the spring. Mine

fell apart from the rain. I don’t know how birds can build so well with just a beak!”

–Grade 5 student, Little Falls Public School

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‘‘Since we launched the food forest last year, it has gone a long way toward

establishing greater food security and sovereignty in Muskeg Lake Cree Nation.”

–Glenna Cayen, Community Program Coordinator, Canadian Feed The Children.

Prairie: Planting local food Grant recipient: Canadian Feed The Children

Volunteers planted almost 500 trees and fruit-bearing shrubs in a “food forest” of apple, plum and cherry trees to help feed more than 360 people living on Saskatchewan’s Muskeg Lake Cree Nation.

Your Donations at Work: Community Gardens

Your donations helped fund

74Community

Gardens with$574,124

in funding

Your donations helped fund

47Citizen Science initiatives with

$343,224in funding

Your Donations at Work: Citizen Science Atlantic: Measuring the eco-health of a UNESCO Biosphere ReserveGrant recipient: Bras d’Or Lake Biosphere Reserve Association

Volunteers caught microbes, fish and flora to track the health of an estuary at one of Canada’s internationally designated protected areas demonstrating a balanced relationship between people and nature. Brothers from Eskasoni First Nation captured the event in a video that was played for the UN General Assembly.

‘‘Less than five percent of the rare and beautiful Garry oak ecosystem is left in the world. By helping the Western Bluebirds, we are

strengthening biodiversity and bringing back our natural heritage.”

–Genevieve Singleton, B.Sc., M.Ed, biologist and nature interpreter

Pacific: Growing food and community in Greater VancouverGrant recipient: Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, Katzie, Seniors Network

Support from TD Friends of the Environment Foundation helped seniors and students learn about sustainable food in this intergenerational garden in Maple Ridge, B.C., where they grew almost 300 pounds of produce for the local food bank and an equal amount for cooking classes featuring fresh, local ingredients.

Pacific: Bringing back the BluebirdGrant recipient: Cowichan Valley Naturalists’ Society

Fourteen Western Bluebirds hatched in the Cowichan Valley thanks to specially installed nest boxes. Participants collected data on the breeding cycle of this iconic songbird, absent for almost 20 years until this project began.

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