For the academic year, 2018 – 2019 and 2019 – 2020, The Collective received financial support, $30,000 ($15,000 per annum), from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the University of Toronto. In 2021, The Collective was awarded the Level BIPOC grant ($50,000) from the Vancouver Foundation.
In accepting these funds, we have been forced to contend with the implications of such a decision, given that this support comes from the very institution we seek to critique and question. We have wrestled with this relationship thinking through:
1) how we maintain our independence,
2) how our work is not directed or limited, and
3) how we maintain ownership of the work undertaken by The Collective.
We have developed principles to guide decision-making on what funding we will accept and who we will accept funding from.