About

Our Story

A just, equitable tomorrow

Imagine a future in which emergent art leaders are rewriting the rules. In this new world, lived experiences are strength and we work together to reshape the funding landscape by bridging the systemic divide.

We’re not just challenging funding systems—we’re flipping them, unlocking new pathways where everyone belongs and thrives.

But this transformation needs advocates and allies, financial activists who will stand with us and mobilize capital to equity-deserving groups as we dismantle social, economic, and systemic inequities.

Flip the narrative! Be part of a future built on greater justice, creativity, and bold leadership.

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Our Values

Justice
Power is concentrated in a few hands. We call for and participate in the redistribution of power and equitable pathways toward leadership in arts and creative industries in Canada.
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Knowledge
We affirm that those with lived experience hold the knowledge needed to design new systems.
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Place
We co-create spaces of collective care, where complexity is embraced, accountability is shared, and communities thrive.
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Imagination
We nurture collective imagination to disrupt, reimagine, and rebuild.
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Rhythm
We honour the natural rhythms of work, rest, repair, and reflection.
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Our Leadership

Meet the FLIP leadership

FLIP partners with arts, academic and business leaders to expand coaching and networking with equity-deserving creatives.

FLIP’s unique approach means that we create meaningful spaces of care and build reciprocal relationships between emergent leaders and financial activists. This approach has the necessary ingredients for sustainable career-building and flips the script on how funding works.

Our team members are compelled by their calling for equity, justice, and stewardship of resources in the pursuit of a more just economy. They are contributing with gifts and guidance so FLIP can reach its vision.

Impact Stories

Our ongoing research and impact

We don’t just track change—we co-create the knowledge that drives it.

Our research projects explore the intersections of art, leadership, and equity, creating actionable insights that fuel the movement for a just economy.

Land Acknowledgement

We are non-Indigenous, queer identified settlers living in Toronto/Tkaronto, located on the territory of many Indigenous peoples including the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Seneca, Petun, Metis and the Anishinabeg Nation, including the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation.

The land and waters in Tkaronto are subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant; a pre-colonial agreement between Haudenosaunee & Ojibwe allied nations to share & care for the natural resources around the Great Lakes. The colonial contracts unjustly enacted on this land and multiple First Nations include Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.

We know there are very different impacts of colonization and different ways people have come to be on this land. We particularly acknowledge Black and racialized communities in Tkaronto and on Turtle Island who have experienced forced displacement and the legacy of enslavement and continual anti-Black racism, and who at the same time are leading and creating movements, community contributions and new/old knowledges in the generational movement for justice.

For us as a settler organization on stolen land, actioning land acknowledgements personally and organizationally include building knowledge, unlearning, doing repair work, advocacy and solidarity work, mobilizing and distributing resources that have been unjustly accumulated through capitalism and white supremacy, and through building meaningful relationships.

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