New Workshop Fee Structure
Effective Summer 2023, after 3 years of free workshops we are no longer offering 100% subsidy for all our workshops. We are replacing it with a sliding scale system that we feel balances our desire to continue to remove barriers to sexual violence prevention training with the responsibility to grow a financially sustainable organization and adequately compensate our team.
Our rationale and plans around this are outlined in detail below the breakdown of our new rates and we invite you to take a moment to learn more about our approach to this decision and our current funding so that you can be informed around the pricing option you select.
We ask that you run through the options and go with the price point under which you share the most applicable attributes.
Click on each of the options to expand.
-
There are 6 spots for completely subsidized workshops in this time period. We are prioritizing groups / non-profits with financial barriers to accessing training opportunities and groups / non-profits who service communities with barriers. For example, peer based programs, DIY community spaces, groups working to support the health and wellbeing of BIPOC and / 2SLGBTQIA + folks, survivors and / or sex workers. Priority will be given to teams, groups and spaces who rely on mutual aid / donations with little to no funding, with a budget or revenue under 20k.
-
This might be for you if you:
are a small team (less than 10 people)
are a new business or organization
are a family-owned / local business
have a patron capacity less than 50
are a community based space or organization
do not receive large grants
are primarily volunteer run
sessional professors looking for a guest speaker
student clubs and student society initiatives
This workshop comes with:
access to digital files of posters and other materials to print at your own expense
access to “The Basics” folder which include inspiration and templates to get you started on writing safety plans and policy
-
This might be for you if you:
have a paid team / staff of 20-30 people
have 2 sites where work happens
have 2 events a year
have a budget for staff skill building
have patron / attendee capacity of 100-200
are a student union or student society on a post-secondary campus
are located on North Vancouver Island, the Sea to Sky or the Fraser Valley
This workshop comes with:
print materials and individual wallet cards for participants
access to “The Basics” folder which include inspiration and templates to get you started on writing safety plans and policy
the slide deck used in the training
1 hour of consulting time
discount on other workshop topics booked in the same calendar year (TBD)
-
This might be for you if you:
have a paid team / staff of 50 or more people
Have multiple sites across the province or country
have patron / attendee capacity above 500
have the financial resources to invest in your team
sell tickets to your event that are over $100
are a multi-day festival
have a budget for staff skill building
are booking on behalf of a public university
are located in another province (this does not include travel or accommodation)
want to contribute to ongoing access to this education for others with less means
This workshop comes with:
the slide deck used in the training
print materials and individual wallet cards for participants
access to full library of resources
1 hour of consulting time
A discount on any additional sessions (for the same site) / refresh booked within 12 months (tbd)
-
Large organizations and businesses (sporting, live music) with multiple revenue streams.
Projects with a national focus.
Large, longstanding venues with 300+ staff.
We also do ‘pay by the seat’ workshops - email us to discuss.
Why are we replacing universal subsidy with sliding scale fee for surface?
We love that you are curious about this. It means a lot that you would like more information about what is happening for our organization right now.
Demand for Services
Demand for Good Night Out workshops has sharply increased over the last 2 years. We recognize this is largely in part due to survivors within the hospitality, live music, and related sectors speaking up. We are grateful to the community for the ongoing interest and trust in our work. From June 2022- June 2023 we completed:
Apx 75 3 hour workshops
Apx 15 2 hour workshops
Apx 18 1 hour speaking gigs
35 hours of policy review time
There are no signs of this demand stopping. 90% of the above sessions were carried out without any fees.
Financial constraints
It is our hope that transparently outlining our current financial situation will allow you to make informed decisions around which sliding scale fee you chose to pay.
From June 2023 - May 2024, we have one $40,000 grant to run our education program even with the above mentioned increasing demand. With this money, we will need to pay our part-time program director and skilled facilitators, create and distribute the posters and other promotional materials, provide post- workshop policy consultation and complete our program evaluation.
To date, we have opted to try and keep costs down by not bringing on administrative support. In the last year it has become apparent that we can longer operate and meet demand without assistance with scheduling, promotional, and other day to day tasks. We are looking to bring an administrative assistant on to help ensure timely response to inquiries and emails, applications, and bookings, freeing our facilitators up to lead workshops.
In short: this budget covered our costs when demand was lower, but has been stretched thin as of late and leaves us no room to hire help.
Cost and Pricing Structure
The basic cost of our workshop varies depending on preparation needed, length of session, number of educators needed, and number of attendees, as they leave with print materials. We also provide the establishment or organization with promotional materials to hang in their space, access to our digital materials and 1 hour of consultation time. This means the hard cost of executing a workshop is between $200 and $700.
We also know people who work in this space, talking about and teaching others about sexual violence every working day deserve fair compensation and protection from burnout. We can only offer that through being adequately resourced as an organization. By asking them to run all aspects of the program, we are contributing to burn out in a job that already requires emotional labour.
Finally, there is also the age-old question of valuing our area of expertise. Good Night Out as an organization and our program director have been recognized on the provincial and national and international level for our work in the area of community safety and preventing sexual violence. We recognize that we are one of the only organizations in North America talking about these issues in a way that is evaluated to be accessible, practical, effective, and relevant to the spaces we are invited into. We believe our education sessions, content, intellectual property, skill set and consultation time is worth paying for. Despite this, we struggle to assess the dollar value of our expertise and the impact we have on teams and organizations (thanks, patriarchy!) and continue to want to be affordable and accessible.
This is all a work in progress and we welcome any and all feedback and suggestions at education@goodnightoutvancouver.com.