Baby Ghosts Studio Development Fund is seeking individuals to join our Board of Directors
Location: Toronto, Ontario. The board meets remotely and directors may be anywhere in Canada.
Seeking: Board of Directors, Volunteer
Time Commitment: 4 to 6 board meetings a year, active service on at least one committee at 2 to 6 hours a month, plus the annual meeting and annual planning session. 5 to 10 hours a month overall.
Apply By: September 25, 2026, 11:59pm ET
Our members elect the board on October 27, 2026. We’re running an open call: everyone who applies and meets the eligibility requirements appears in the candidate information sent to every member on October 1. Nobody is shortlisted or interviewed.
We’re looking hardest for not-for-profit or charity board governance, financial oversight, and fundraising, and would also value HR and employment, equity and anti-racism, and conflict resolution experience. Prior board experience is an asset and there’s room to grow into the role without it.
Apply at:Â https://flywheel.babyghosts.org/board/apply
Role description:Â https://flywheel.babyghosts.org/board/responsibilities
About Baby Ghosts
Baby Ghosts is a Canadian registered charity providing cooperative governance education, professional development, and open resources for marginalized creators in Canada’s interactive digital arts sector. We spread awareness and education about cooperatives, as both a business model and a grassroots movement to address the social and economic issues faced by displaced and disheartened game workers.
Our work centres marginalized artists, collectives, and cooperatives in the sector, advocating for their freedom to create work that reflects our collective cultural and social richness. We deliver low-barrier educational programs and build a supportive cross-disciplinary community where the process and work of artists historically left out of digital arts spaces is resourced, celebrated, and platformed. By providing material support and education on cooperative and worker-centric models to underrepresented artists, we add diverse stories and perspectives to the Canadian interactive digital arts ecosystem and remove barriers these creators face when entering the sector.
We are also mandated to advocate for systemic change: an ecosystem that supports cooperative and worker-centric studio models. We work with artists, funding bodies, educational institutions, and other partners.
What Directors Do
- Support Baby Ghosts’ mission and values, and protect the organization so it can do its work.
Set policy, direction, and strategic priorities. Work through them with staff, and allocate resources as needed. - Act as an ambassador for Baby Ghosts. Talk about the work in your communities and bring back ideas, volunteers, and partnerships.
- Help find and reach funding through donations, grant applications, and partnerships, so the organization stays financially stable.
- Provide direction and oversight on the annual budget and grant applications.
- Review, recommend, and revise organizational policies and by-laws, and stay familiar with how Baby Ghosts operates: its plans, budget, and activities. By-law changes made by the board go to the members for confirmation, and some can only be made by the members.
- Approve the hiring and release of the Co-Executive Directors, including their employment contracts, and review their performance annually.
- Serve on, and ideally chair, at least one committee.
- Support recruitment of candidates for election by the members, onboard newly elected directors, and help build a steady team of staff, board, and volunteers.
- Represent Baby Ghosts at industry, academic, and community events, and support fundraising and community activities as you have capacity.
- Participate in the development of strategic plans and annual reviews, and in board and community training as needed.
- Ensure the organization remains in compliance with the requirements of the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act and its charitable registration in Canada.
- Contribute to the mission, vision, and values through what you already know and what you want to learn.
Time Commitment
- Four to six board meetings a year, prepared by reviewing the agenda and materials in advance. The first meeting of the new board is November 4, 2026 at 1:00pm Eastern, where officers are appointed. The board has also fixed February 10, 2027 and April 14, 2027, both at 1:00pm Eastern.
- Active service on at least one committee (2 to 6 hours per month), and ad hoc committees as needed.
- The annual meeting of the members and the annual planning session.
- Asynchronous organizational conversations on Slack, and follow-through on assignments between meetings.
Representing Baby Ghosts at industry and community events in your region, as available.
In total, expect 5 to 10 hours a month on Baby Ghosts work, with more in the weeks around a board meeting, the annual meeting, and the planning session. The role is flexible to life circumstances, but we need board members who are willing to show up and put in the work.