Accomplishments — Awards — Accolades:
The success of Eva's Initiatives has resulted in a great response from the community and its growing reputation for innovative, proactive work with homeless youth has resulted in many awards and accolades. The following list demonstrates its role as an instrument of positive change:
- 2008 Vital Person Award, The Toronto Community Foundation (Eva's Phoenix).
- 2007 Vital Person and Vital Ideas Awards, The Toronto Community Foundation (Eva's Phoenix).
- 2005 Promising Approach, National Secretariat on Homelessness, based on sustainable partnerships, effectiveness and replicability (Eva's Phoenix).
- 2005 Harry Jerome Award, Community Service Category, Black Business and Professional Association.
- 2005 City Liveability Award, Urban Leadership Awards, Canadian Urban Institute.
- 2004 Best Practices in Affordable Housing Award, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (Eva's Phoenix).
- The Major Leonard Frost Award, Ontario Association of Hostels, for "providing opportunities for clients to move from consumers of hostel services to contributing members of the community".
- Cited by the Toronto Board of Trade as a best practice model of private and public partnerships in creating long-term solutions for the homeless crisis (Eva's Phoenix).
- The Peter J. Marshall Innovation Award, Association of Municipalities of Ontario - this award is for an innovative initiative for alternative service delivery and partnership and is made to one municipal project from nominations selected from across Ontario (Eva's Phoenix).
- First recipient of Canadian Auto Workers Social Justice Fund - Millennium Fund.
- Youth participants in the Phoenix Print Shop have won several industry awards, such as the Toronto Club of Printing House Craftsmen's Student Achievement Award.
- One of two recipients in 2000 from The Hilary M. Weston Foundation for Youth, for a new landscaping apprenticeship program.
- A partnership project between the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, The Shout Clinic and Eva's Initiatives to explore Harm Reduction programming for street youth. For this project, a pilot project has been initiated at Eva's Satellite.
