Our mission is to engage with and empower individuals to become involved in creating and maintaining positive relationships within community. We work with people to be community builders and provide them with the resources to transform communities.

CAVE is an acronym for Communities Advancing Valued Environments. CAVE was formed in 2004 after recognizing the need for community building in the Greater Toronto Area. CAVE has established itself in the GTA as an organization that strives to transform communities through various initiatives, primarily Mural Transformation Projects. Under the umbrella of CAVE is the Canadian Student Institute (CSI), an organization formed by Humber College Students that focuses on community building through their network of volunteer placements (www.csicommunity.com). CAVE also works directly with the Laser Eagles,an organization that offers everyone the opportunity for self expression and participation, through the relation of art. Judith Snow, a world leader on inclusiveness issues for people with disabilities, and Franziska Trauttsmandorff initiated this project in Toronto (www.lasereagles.org). Both the Canadian Student Institute and The Laser Eagles are under the CAVE umbrella.

Community building
Volunteering
Street Transformation Project