Take a work packet

Toronto is held together by thousands of organizations almost nobody can name in one place: congregations of every faith, minor-league clubs and run crews, residents’ associations, hometown societies, service clubs, parent councils, makerspaces, seniors’ groups. The project is building a public map of them — every pin showing an organization’s own front door, so any neighbour can find where they fit and walk in.

That map cannot be built by software alone, and it shouldn’t be. It gets built the same way it will be used: one neighbour, one organization, one verified row at a time.

What a packet is

A work packet is one slice of the city — one kind of organization in one part of town, like places of worship in North York or residents’ associations in Scarborough. It’s sized for a week of spare moments: no meetings, no training, no schedule. Forty-four packets are open as this page publishes (August 2026), covering places of worship, sports leagues and rec crews, cultural and hometown societies, residents’ and neighbourhood associations, service clubs and chambers, school and parent councils, makerspaces, tenant groups, youth groups, seniors’ clubs, and main-street business associations — across Toronto and the 905.

What you actually do

For each organization in your slice: visit its own official website, and copy down what it already tells the public — its name, its website, its general office email or phone, its public social accounts, roughly where it is. One organization, one row. That's the whole job.

The rules, because they matter

Only the organization’s own front door. A general mailbox, an office phone, a website — never any person’s personal email, cell number, or home address, even when a page shows one. Only what you read today, from the organization’s own site or an official directory — never a data-broker or people-search site, and never a guess: if a site is down, you say so. Invitation, not targeting. The map exists so organizations can be invited into a conversation and so neighbours can find them — the language is neutral and factual, always. When in doubt, hand it back. Anything that gives you pause goes to a human conversation, not into the map.

How to take one

Email unknownsoldier@unitetolove.ca with the subject “Work packet” and the part of the city you know best. You’ll get back one packet: your slice, the row format, the rules above, and a way to send rows in as you go. Prefer a lighter first step? Tick volunteer on the join form and mention the map.

Credit works the way everything here works: your rows are yours, credited by whatever name you choose, or not at all. Nobody’s personal information is ever published — the map shows organizations and their public front doors, nothing else.

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