Project funding can definitely be useful at times in developing new ways of doing things. However, what community organizations in Quebec and elsewhere want is mission funding. Then they could promote and support mobilization using that resource.
Consequently, we need to support the mobilization of young people so they can develop their own projects, test initiatives and roll them out. Project funding is often very limited and involves milestones that are imposed on us from above, which very often runs counter to the practices of the community sectors. Accountability, which is a major responsibility, takes up time that we should instead be devoting to developing our mission and animating association and democratic life
Of course, what we hope for is public, recurring mission funding that truly enables groups to maintain their independence and agility in developing projects based on demand on the ground.
There's considerable demand for youth projects right now. We think mission funding could help to develop them. Certain initiatives are also headed in that direction, even where there's no specific project.