OPIRG is represented on important campus and community partnerships that strengthen our impact and allow mutually rewarding contributions from OPIRG and our partner organizations
CURRENT PARTNERSHIPS
PREVIOUS PARTNERSHIPS
Hamilton Street Tree Project
A pilot project in 2013, the Street Tree Project developed into a five-year partnership with the city of Hamilton’s street tree programme so the project could target communities with higher than average poor air quality in a door to door campaign to sign people up for a free street tree.
OPIRG hired a student to coordinate the door to door campaign each year. Thanks to the work of McMaster students Jonathon Valencia (2013), Krista Kruja (2014), Harshal Patel (2015), Hannah Walters-Vida (2016) and Chelsea Lowes (2017) we garnered 278 Street Tree requests from residents in the lower city with a four year average of 82% of the requests planted!
Beyond the partnership with the City of Hamilton Forestry department, the Street Tree Project also created valuable connections with:
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- Environment Hamilton where we joined the Air and Tree Taskforce made up of community groups like the Hamilton Naturalist Club as well as City of Hamilton staff from Forestry and Climate Change departments et al
- McMaster’s Research Shop conducted research for us on best-practices with door-to-door campaigning
- City Councillors in wards three and four (Councillors Bernie Morelli, Matthew Green and Sam Merulla)
- Neighbourhood hubs in Keith and Crown Point, et al
- And the volunteers and people in the neighbourhoods who helped create a greener and cleaner airshed
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COMMERCE 4SG3 - Corporations and Society
Brent McKnight’s class worked with OPIRG McMaster to developing ways to increase our project impact, and onboard new projects.
Centre3 Rebrand Project
Hamilton Community Foundation annual Living the Environment Conference
Malhar Group – Shelley Porteous
Atzin – Shelley Porteous
Restore Cootes: “Lot M” Project – Randy Kay
Cootes To Escarpment Stakeholder Advisory Group – Randy Kay