INITIATIVES

Where Imagination Meets Practice.
Our initiatives are not programs. They are experiments—ongoing, iterative, and alive.

Each one begins with a question we couldn’t stop asking, a gap we kept running into, or a community that deserved more than what already existed. They are how we practice what we believe: that the futures we need have to be lived into, not just designed.

Some initiatives are years in the making. Some are still becoming. All of them are invitations.

Core Initiatives

These are the bodies of work we keep returning to. Not because they’re finished, but because they’re not.

These initiatives are where our values become tangible. They are how we learn what we actually believe—not in theory, but in the mess and beauty of doing it alongside real people, in real communities, with real stakes.

Each one began with a question we couldn’t let go of. They’ve grown through relationships, experiments, failures, and breakthroughs and they continue to evolve. None of them are finished. That’s the point.

Invitations to Better Worlds

Every gathering, installation, and practice space we facilitate is an invitation to better worlds. IBW is the container for our most experimental work—the processes, artifacts, and gatherings we design to help communities pause, imagine, and practice the futures they want to inhabit together.

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The Stories of Us

Canada’s first library of stories by Newcomers, for Newcomers. The Stories of Us began with a belief that the people most impacted by migration deserved to tell their own stories—on their own terms, in their own languages. It remains one of our most enduring practices of truth-telling and narrative power.

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F(un)dable Futures

This project examines the Canadian funding landscape by surfacing the gap between what gets funded in the social impact sector and what doesn’t — bringing funders and funded communities into honest, practice-based conversations about the power, beliefs, and mental models that shape where resources flow.

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Insights

Our initiatives are generative. They produce not just projects and programs, but thinking—essays, reflections, and honest post-project learnings that we share openly because we believe knowledge is a collective resource.

A Note on How We Work

We don’t launch initiatives and walk away. We stay in them—learning, adjusting, and sharing what we find. If something we’re working on resonates with you, or if you’re sitting with a question that feels related, we want to hear from you.

There is space for you here.

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