Capacity Building Initiative: Project Grants
The Canada Council for the Arts is committed to equity and inclusion, and welcomes applications from diverse Aboriginal, cultural and regional communities, including people with disabilities.
Deadline
30 November
If this date falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day.
Note: Competitions for these grants will be held in 2011, 2012 and 2013 only.
This program does not replace project grants from other Canada Council programs. If the proposed projects are eligible for support from other disciplinary sections’ programs (Audience and Market Development, Dance, Inter-Arts, Media Arts, Music, Theatre, Visual Arts, or Writing and Publishing), applicants must apply to those programs.
Please refer to the Program Guidelines for detailed information. Applicants who cannot view the documents in PDF format can contact the Equity Office to receive documents in alternative formats.
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Program Description
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This program provides targeted project support to culturally diverse, Deaf and disability arts organizations, associations and networks.
It contributes funds to extraordinary projects and initiatives that significantly benefit designated arts communities, including artists, arts professionals, audiences, volunteers and the public that make up these diverse arts ecologies. Eligible projects include forums or gatherings, conferences, professional development workshops, web-based activities, or other special programs or initiatives.
Applicant Eligibility
Types of eligible applicants
To be eligible to apply to this program, an applicant must be a Canadian professional arts organization, association or network.
Arts organizations
Your arts organization must be one of the following:
A registered, non-profit arts organization operating under a volunteer board of directors.
A publishing house that operates under industry regulations:
- has its head office in Canada, maintains editorial control in Canada and is at least 75 percent Canadian-owned
- maintains full control over editorial processes, and
- has book publishing as its primary activity.
A professional music ensemble, band or group of 2 to 22 musicians that:
- has been working together long enough to create a unique and cohesive musical voice, usually a minimum of one year, or
- has a structure that involves a variable-numbered pool of musicians working together on a regular basis, as stated in their artistic mandate.
An artists’ collective, which:
- is an unincorporated group that has been in existence with the same core artistic membership for at least two years of ongoing activity before the application deadline, and
- has also created and publicly presented at least two arts activities that have received recognition from artists working in the same disciplines, genres or traditions.
Associations and networks
Your association or network can be local, regional or national in scale. It must:
- be a group of arts professionals or arts organizations (usually non-profit) that has a primary mandate outside arts creation, production or dissemination
- be mandated to serve the interests of member artists, arts professionals and (or) arts organizations, and
- serve a broad membership base of typically 15 or higher, although numbers may vary depending on region and (or) artistic practices served.
An applicant must also meet one of the following criteria:
- be an association or network that evolved from the Canada Council Stand Firm Initiative
- have received, in the past five years, funding support from the Canada Council or federal, provincial/territorial and municipal public arts funders or arts funding from foundations.
Grant Amount
The maximum grant amount that your organization, association or network can receive for the project proposed is $50,000.
Further Information
Equity Office
Canada Council for the Arts
350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047
Ottawa ON K1P 5V8
1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, plus the appropriate extension as listed below.
TTY: 1-877-688-5501 or 1‑866‑585‑5559
Deaf and disability arts organizations, associations and networks may contact:
Elizabeth Sweeney, Disability Arts Officer
elizabeth.sweeney@canadacouncil.ca or the phone number above, ext. 4689
Culturally diverse arts organizations, associations and networks may contact:
Shuni Tsou, Program Officer
shuni.tsou@canadacouncil.ca or the phone number above, ext. 4173
October 2011