Fee Structure

Our Approach to Accessible Programming

EartHand Gleaners Society works to provide low-barrier, affordable, and deeply impactful programming through our skill-development workshops, artist residency projects, and land-inquiry initiatives.

To help balance these goals, we use a sliding-scale ticket structure for our paid programs.

Support Scale

We encourage participants to pay at the level they are able.

Choosing the level that reflects your financial capacity helps us better understand what our community can afford. This information helps guide our budgeting and allows us to continue offering programs that support both artists and community accessibility.

1. Community Patron

This is the standard ticket price for participants who are able to pay the full cost of the program.

It covers:

  • the artist or facilitator fee
  • program coordination
  • organizational admin costs
  • a small contribution to support subsidized spaces for community members who may need a lower-cost option.

2. Volunteer Support

This tier covers:

  • a portion of the artist or facilitator fee
  • a small contribution toward organizational costs.

These placements rely on volunteer administrative support and the balance created by Community Patron tickets.

3. Sponsored Placement

This tier is designed to make programs financially accessible to those who may not otherwise be able to participate.

This tier covers a portion of the artist or facilitator fee. The remaining cost is supported by:

  • Community Patron tickets
  • Volunteer work.

Whenever possible, programs are structured so that spaces are balanced across the three tiers. For example, if a workshop has nine spaces, we aim to offer three tickets at each level.

Program pricing is set to account for this balance and ensure that artists and facilitators are fairly compensated while keeping participation accessible.

A Note About Our Fee Structure

As our programming has grown, we made a conscious decision not to significantly increase program fees in order to cover administrative costs. Instead, we have prioritized directing revenue toward fair compensation for the artists, facilitators, and knowledge holders who lead our programs.

At the same time, running these programs requires many hours of coordination, administration, and grant writing. Much of this work is currently supported by a small group of dedicated volunteers.

As we look ahead to the long-term sustainability of EartHand Gleaners Society, we are exploring ways to build an organizational structure that can support fairly compensated administrative work, while continuing to honour the artists and knowledge holders who make our programs possible.