The Resonance Fund™
A dedicated financial aid and vocational funding vehicle — distributing non-dilutive grants so neurodivergent people can build a life in sound.
Why this fund exists
For twenty-five years, low-frequency music was the one place the founder could decompress. When the world was too loud, too critical and completely overwhelming, sound was the room she could actually stand in — and it stayed constant through the long stretch of losing herself to a world not built for her brain, and the slower work of coming back.
Navigating a pervasive drive for autonomy, rejection sensitivity, dyspraxia and intense sensory difference every single day is not a phase. It is a life, lived in a body that has to be managed before anything else can happen. This fund exists to pay that forward: to put the equipment, the training and the studio time within reach of people who were told the door was closed.
To everyone currently lost in the noise, waiting to find their own light again: we see you, your experience is real, and there is a corner here that is yours.
Ros Millett — Founder, Diverse Solutions Canopy CIC
Still walking the path. Still held by the sound.
Held to the One Standard
Everything this ecosystem has built — the reading profiles, the communication protection, the sensory and sound respect — lives in one standard, created by the founder and included by right in every app and platform she designs from here on out, wherever it fits and works.
It is the ecosystem showing the world what good should look like in accessibility, function and global use: settings follow the person, never the app; the engine drafts the words and the person holds the pen; nothing a person depends on disappears when they walk through another door.
One person · one set of needs · every door
What the fund is
A ring-fenced financial vehicle within the ecosystem, distributing creative scholarships and vocational grants to neurodistinct people of all ages who want to use music, sound and production as tools for healing, identity and belonging.
Grants carry zero equity, zero repayment, zero ownership of your art. The only invitation, and only when you are ready, is to help someone else through the same door.
What the fund covers
DJ Training Scholarships
Non-dilutive grants covering specialist DJ training courses for neurodivergent individuals of all ages — zero equity, zero repayment.
Studio Equipment Access
Funded access to low-latency audio mixing hardware, controllers, and production rigs — removing the financial barrier to music creation.
Electronic Music Production
Scholarships for structured production courses, workshops, and hands-on studio experience alongside professional mentors.
Live Sound Engineering
Vocational funding for sound technician pathways — putting neurodivergent people behind the desks at live events and festivals.
Pass It Forward
Every grant recipient is invited, when they are ready and never before, to help the next person coming through — no obligation, no repayment.
Pass it forward, when you are ready
Grant recipients and team members are invited to give a little of their time back to the community that funded them — shadowing, co-creating, or showing someone else the software or the studio. It is an invitation and never a condition. Nothing is owed, and nobody is chased for it.
Grant applications opening soon
The first funding round opens alongside Diverse Gigs™ and Diverse & Deep™. Register your interest through your profile and you will hear first.