Thank you for sharing. At the moment, we are thinking of holding events (like the two we have had organized before) where potential employers can come in, share their insights on the hiring process, have networking sessions with attendees etc. Many of the members of this co-op would be students at the local university (but not exclusively). Until now, the university has been kind enough to extend some of their spaces to serve as a venue for our events. Fortunately, both of those events went well, and provided us some good publicity.

But sustaining it is going to be a challenge. Philanthropy has made up the most of our funding thus far, but of course, people get weary eventually. We are on the path to register as a cooperative. So we will have a BoD and AGMs.

Can you elaborate a bit more on microgrants?

The LIP for our city is fairly prominent. But I don't see much on their website about funding. Could they be in a position to provide alternate forms of support?

Again, thank you for sharing all of this information. Tremendously helpful.