Grants
When funds allow, LET’S offers small barrier free grants. We are proud to support a range of people, community groups, and organizations. Below are recipients.
Dark Before The Dawn aims to create a safe, inclusive environment for Black healing through a multifaceted approach. This approach includes holistic, cultural, and integrative wellness practices and modalities.
Indian Residential School Survivors Society, provincial organization that provides essential services to residential school survivors and families experiencing intergenerational trauma.
JQT (Jewish Queer Trans), volunteer-run Jewish Queer and Trans charitable non-profit dedicated to “queering” Jewish spaces and “Jew-ifying” Queer spaces through education, dialogue, art, cultural celebration and partnerships.
Massy Arts Society, community hub dedicated to supporting the practices of Indigenous and over-excluded artists. Our programming is extensive in its multiple forms: open talks, debates, book launches, art shows, performances, concerts, fairs, and many others.
Nahanee Creative Inc. – now Indigenous Inclusion “produce and facilitate interactive inclusion, allyship, anti-racist communication and decolonizing practices seminars that speak to everyone, no matter their cultural, academic or professional background.”
Vancouver Black Therapy Advocacy Fund, connects Black individuals and families facing barriers to mental healthcare, to their free counselling services, low-cost counselling services, patient navigation services and advocacy.
Vines Art Festival – We enable social transformation by uplifting and creating space for healing that occurs organically within the intersections of art, connection to authentic self, connection to community and connection to land.
Disability Justice Anthology (Water Damaged Paper Anthology, Platform for Justice-Centred Art & Writing)
Issue 3 – 108 pages of beautiful art and writing on disabled identities, cultures, and communities — all printed on recycled paper with sustainable ink from an FSC-certified print house
Here is an example of a grant that Dark Before the Dawn retreat received from LET’S and how it helped:
“…we were able to support a number of Black folks living with disability this year, including the last minute (as in the night before) addition of a disabled child with a g-tube who required extra support and privacy for feedings. It also allowed a participant who used a wheelchair to access the space – she was able to use an all-terrain motorized wheelchair and participate in hikes and outdoor activities – something she mentioned she had never had the opportunity to do since losing her leg and it was a very empowering experience for her. We were also able to access toilet seat risers, shower stools, and have a variety of additional accessible seating in the space, which was always in use at some point or another by a variety of bodies. We were able to support an elder who had an old knee injury flare-up as we had access to a cane on site because the site itself was built for accessibility. We were able to accommodate special room requests for folks who needed to use a CPAP machine for sleeping, and those who needed different bedding options to better suit their body’s needs. Four neurodivergent children were able to access the space, participate in activities and find community. They both had full access to the sensory room and petting zoo as needed to help self-regulate, this relieved a lot of stress for parents who were feeling anxious about how their children would be received and supported in the space. Lastly, we were able to hire an autistic facilitator to support our mindfulness programming, which everyone benefited from!”