Decisions made at City Hall and the Toronto School Board affect lives across Toronto. Many of those decisions are made at committees where the public has an opportunity to speak. That’s why one way to ensure representatives and the Mayor hear our concerns is by speaking at a committee.

Speaking at a committee is also known as making a deputation. Deputations are an opportunity for you to tell the Mayor, City Councillors, and TDSB Trustees your opinions and perspectives on issues they are considering.

Learn more and sign up here.

Knowing the decision-making process at City Hall is a key tool to advocate, influence decisions, and organize to win. During the pandemic, Toronto city council and committee meetings have been moved online.

Join Progress Toronto's Program and Operations Director, Erica Woods, to learn more about the legislative process, who the key players are influencing decisions, and how you can have your say. Learn more and sign up here!

Ever wanted to meet with your local politician but didn’t know where to begin or what to say?

On Tuesday July 14, join Progress Toronto's Executive Director Michal Hay and Toronto Community Benefits Network’s Campaigns Manager Kumsa Baker for this training. You'll find out why meeting with your local politician matters and how you can prepare for your meeting to make sure your voice is heard. Learn more and sign up here.

Developing digital campaigns and strategies is crucial to winning on progressive issues, particularly now during the COVID-19 pandemic. Progress Toronto is excited to partner with 350.org and their Senior Digital Strategist Atiya Jaffar to provide this Digital Campaigning 101 training.

Join us on Tuesday, July 7 to learn the basics of digital campaigning, what digital campaigning can achieve, and how to create digital strategies. Click here to learn more and sign up!

Progress Toronto is offering 6 free trainings and workshops for our 2020 Summer Training Series! Due to COVID-19, all of our trainings are happening online.

This Summer, workshops include digital campaigning, how to meet with your local politician (including virtual meetings), using your personal narrative to move people to action, and more! Click here to learn more and register.

Join Progress Toronto on Monday June 29 at 9:30am via Zoom so we can watch City Council live together. Toronto City Council is meeting and there are many important items on the agenda including defunding the Toronto police, the City’s response to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, anti-Black racism, COVID-19 response and so much more! Click here to register and learn more.

Thousands joined us live for our conversation on defunding the police and investing in communities. You can still watch the panel! Click here to catch up and see what the panelists had to say.

You’re invited to join us on Thursday, June 25 at 6:30pm for an unprecedented and not to be missed online fundraising event: a live online cooking demo with activist, author, and award-winning Chef Joshna Maharaj! As Joshna takes you through a delicious recipe she will be in conversation with the ever-inspiring Paul Taylor, Executive Director of FoodShare. Find out more.

Progress Toronto is seeking a senior non-profit leader to fill the role of Interim Executive Director for a 12-month parental leave contract. Applications are due on Sunday July 5, 2020. Find out more here.

A discussion on reprioritizing city investments as we build a just Toronto.

Sign up (for free) to join us on Wednesday, June 17 as we team up with the Urban Alliance on Race Relations to co-host a conversation with Black Lives Matter Toronto co-founder and Vice Chair of the Black Legal Action Centre Sandy Hudson, lawyer, professor, author, advocate and Chair in Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University Dr. Pamela Palmater, writer and community organizer with Education Not Incarceration Phillip Dwight Morgan, and Executive Director of Black Creek Community Health Centre Cheryl Prescod. The conversation will be moderated by Toronto Star Digital Producer Angelyn Francis. Find out more and sign up here.

Examining the intersections of rebuilding our city & what we can achieve

Sign up (for free) to join us on Thursday, June 11 as we host a conversation with City Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, the Executive Coordinator of the Toronto Community for Better Child Care Abigail Doris, and MPP for Scarborough Southwest and the Official Opposition Critic for Early Learning and Child Care Doly Begum. The conversation will be moderated by Leila Sarangi, Director of Social Action Family Services Toronto and National Coordinator of Campaign 2000. Find out more and sign up here.

This pandemic has exposed and deepened inequality in our city — showing even more of us that the old way of doing things isn’t working.

Just as so many of us are struggling to pay rent and put food on the table, COVID-19 emergency spending alongside decades of underfunding has pushed City Hall to a financial breaking point and Toronto’s City Manager has been ringing the alarm.

If thousands of us take action by signing this petition, we can convince the Federal and Provincial governments to provide immediate financial relief to cities and commit to a new deal, a new relationship, with our city to help us build a Toronto that works for everyone. Find out more and send your message here.

Progress Toronto is excited to partner with the Workers’ Action Centre and 15 and Fairness to help provide a “Know Your Rights” online training with WAC’s Executive Director, Deena Ladd and Parkdale Community Legal Services, Workers's Rights Division staff lawyer, John No. This training is designed to help you navigate and apply for the Canada Emergency Relief Benefit (CERB), to know more about your rights regarding job protection, paid and unpaid leave, and safe working conditions, and to understand the supports you are entitled to. Find out more and sign up here.

As the Mayor, Councillors and Toronto’s new Office of Recovery and Rebuild begin their work on Toronto’s recovery, local organizations including Progress Toronto, representing tens of thousands of people from across the city, have submitted a letter to the Mayor and City Council that outlines ten principles for a bold, green, and just recovery. See our letter here.