The Community Knowledge Alliance (CKA) fund is meant to galvanize, encourage, and facilitate discussions across different sites of intellectual inquiry such as non-profit settings, workplaces, grassroots social movements, municipal, provincial, national, international, and transnational government settings, universities, and sites and forms of cultural production including musical, literary, visual, or performance.
The CKA committee is composed of three WGSI faculty members and one graduate student who allocate an annual budget of $15,000. Normally, at least two projects are funded; we are interested in supporting as many projects as feasible, and welcome proposals requiring modest support, as well as those which may require more robust funding.
Successful applicants are invited to share their work at an informal reception at WGSI each fall.
Applications must have at least one community member and one WGSI faculty member (this includes affiliate faculty). Project proposals are to be a maximum of two pages, including these four items: (1) a program description and rationale, (2) a list of applicants, (3) student involvement, and (4) a budget.
Please e-mail proposals to the WGSI Administrative Assistant at wgsi.admin@utoronto.ca by October 15, 2025.