MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA

Members include individual or family foundations; corporate foundations or programs; private equity funds; investors that have a portfolio of mental health companies; or entities (including charities and not-for-profits) that have received private sector funding and are in turn giving grants to mental health organizations.

Members can come from any country in the world, and we are actively looking for more members in Africa and Latin America, so that we can all benefit from having a stronger, global network.

To preserve the really valuable peer-to-peer nature of this community, membership of the Collective is for those who hold ultimate responsibility for funding decisions. There are events where we will specify that attendance is for members only. This is so that members can hold space for each other and share vulnerably in a community of like-minded peers.
However, there are many other opportunities to include representatives or a +1, such as our solution circles and geek-outs. We will always say on the invites when it is member only. Otherwise, assume that representatives and +1s are welcome :)

In practice, this means:
- Making a positive contribution to mental health by funding mental health services, education or advocacy.
- Making an effort to be aware of any negative impacts that result from your company for organization’s actions that could harm mental health, and putting in place measures to tackle any negative impacts when known.

If a member is consistently soliciting other members or not respecting our values of trust and respect, we retain the right too remove them form the community (but hope to never have to do so!!)
Most importantly, we ask that members engage with an open heart and desire to support and help each other to get stuff done.