[Blacklabcollective] Grants - input please!

[Lindsay Kasting]

I really don't like the idea of someone in the collective getting paid
while everyone else doesn't because i feel like it puts differing values on
our work, and we all work hard. Sorry Eris.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Lindsay Kasting <l.kasting86 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Or if we could hire a maintenance person? That seems like the most needed
> "staff" cost to be honest. And I don't think any of us would mind getting
> paid for the time and energy we are putting into the space, either. :)
> Otherwise I don't care about taking money from anyone as long as the
> stipulations are realistic, but I trust your judgement there. For example,
> SBC just got $24,000 from the city, but it is exclusively for outside of
> the building and an awning. Don't we still need to get our society status
> sorted out before we can start accessing that stuff, though?
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Eris Nyx <erisnyx at hotmail.ca> wrote:
>
>> Yes, please give me a job. Where else will I work?
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:37:10 -0800
>> Subject: Re: [Blacklabcollective] Grants - input please!
>> From: speers.megan at gmail.com
>> To: blacklabcollective at lists.resist.ca
>> CC: erisnyx at hotmail.ca
>>
>>
>> I was gona suggest Eris as the staff person as well, since she's on part
>> time at OCB right now? makes sense to me. And/or any other collective
>> member that would have an interest in being a staff person, if anyone else
>> has interest in that position. I think it'd be better to hire someone from
>> the collective! since we all work our butts off itd be cool if at least one
>> of us is getting paid! :)
>> I am ok with any of the above grants, though I think we should avoid
>> taking money from other DTES agencies, so maybe the city/province/canada/bc
>> arts council stuff would be more priority to me as opposed to DTES cultural
>> infrastructure grants.
>> thanks again anju for your work on this, it's very stoking.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Anju Singh <aanjusingh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Eris pass word is blacklabvancouver333
>>
>> you can make them :)
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Eris Nyx <erisnyx at hotmail.ca> wrote:
>>
>> I would totally be willing to be the "staff member" or whatever if it
>> means we get $$$.
>>
>> Also can someone make events for March's film nights:
>> Wed March 11th - FILM NIGHT: Kids
>> Wed March 25th - FILM NIGHT: Time is Illmatic
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> From: aanjusingh at gmail.com
>> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:39:47 -0800
>> Subject: Grants - input please!
>> To: blacklabcollective at lists.resist.ca; erisnyx at hotmail.ca
>>
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> --
>> Anju Singh
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Anju Singh
>>
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