[Blacklabcollective] Grants - input please!

[Anju Singh]

Hey all, I haven't managed to add Eris to the list yet so please add her
when you email about space stuff for now.

I want to know everyone's stand on grants. Talking to folks, it seems we
are not agreed on whether we should apply for grants or not. Since writing
grants is a shit load of work, i'll need to know where we stand on what
types of grants we want to apply for and what you support me in writing for.

It's not a good use of my time to keep asking back about specific grants,
I'm quite busy, so it would be better for me to have direction and to check
in on the basics and to go with it and apply. I just want to make sure I'm
not applying for something and have it be rejected by the collective after
i put work into it.

One of the grants i'm looking at requires that a portion of funds go to
staffing. This means hiring a part- or full-time person to run the
operating side of things. If we aren't interested in having a staff member,
then I need to remove these grants from my list. Operating grants will
never be successful if there is no paid staff to run it. In fact, FYI, many
grants won't be successful without the grantor knowing that someone is
being paid to ensure that the project is completed and successful.

Here are my questions:

-Do we want to hire someone (from our collective or not) to work on stuff
at the space?
-Do we want to take money from the city?
-Do we want to take money from the province?
-Do we want to take money from the DTES cultural infrastructure grants?
-Do we want to take money from the Canada Council for the Arts and BC
Council for the Arts?
-Are we ok with asking for money for festivals?
-Are we ok with asking for money for workshops?
-Are we ok with asking for money for community support (training/resources,
especially technology).

Thanks!

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Anju Singh
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