Capacity Building Initiative: Multi-year 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: This three-year funding program is offered only in 2011.
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 supports culturally diverse, Deaf and disability arts organizations that are committed to building, improving or sustaining their administrative capacity through organizational development. This means strengthening governance and financial, human, physical, technical and other resources that enable organizations to achieve long-term sustainability.
This program provides one-time funding support for three consecutive years.
Applicant Eligibility
An applicant must be a Canadian professional arts organization described as 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 and:
- 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 incorporated 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.
Applicants must also demonstrate that the artistic merit of the organization has been assessed in the past five years by the Canada Council for the Arts or other Canadian arts funders. (Please see the guidelines for more details.)
Grant Amount
The maximum grant amount that your organization can receive is $30,000 per year.
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 may contact:
Elizabeth Sweeney, Disability Arts Officer
elizabeth.sweeney@canadacouncil.ca or the phone number above, ext. 4689
Culturally diverse arts organizations may contact:
Shuni Tsou, Program Officer
shuni.tsou@canadacouncil.ca or the phone number above, ext. 4173
October 2011