Throughout its history, Group Project Initiatives (founded in April 2020 and incorporated in April 2021) has largely been sustained by volunteer efforts or through margins from client consulting projects. Since 2021, the organization has turned down three funding opportunities that came with conditions misaligned with its values. The Social Good Collective is designed to be funded predominantly by membership fees from everyday people, with scalable options to ensure inclusivity, including free memberships. As the organization grows, the vision includes forming volunteer-led committee circles to collaboratively shape decision-making and ensure the space evolves in alignment with its values and community needs.

Creating something as transformative as the Social Good Collective requires space for experimentation, growth, and imperfection. Committed to dismantling entrenched systems while fostering new frameworks rooted in care and justice, this work is an iterative process. Mistakes and missteps are not just inevitable but vital, offering opportunities to reflect, adapt, and refine. Recognizing that meaningful change is neither instantaneous nor linear, this process is embraced with time, intention, and grace.

These initiatives are founded and led by a (late-diagnosed) neurodivergent, 90s millennial and woman of colour who has spent the last seven years actively healing, unlearning, and learning. She holds a master’s and bachelor’s degree in health equity, systems change, and trauma-informed design from Western University. As the eldest daughter of two Tamil refugees from the land now known as Sri Lanka, born in Canada, she holds two complex truths: being harmed by European colonialism on her ancestral lands while simultaneously navigating the realities of being complicit in European colonialism in Canada. As such, she operates with an understanding that she has a duty to both her ancestors and is a future ancestor herself. Like the initiatives she leads, she is an imperfect work in progress—growing, learning, iterating, while ambitiously striving for transformative change.