Professional Orchestra Program: Annual Funding
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
1 February 2012 (annual funding for 2012-13)
The next multi-year funding application deadline is February 2014. No multi-year applications will be accepted until this date.
If this deadline falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, it moves to the next business day.
Please refer to the Program guidelines for detailed information.
Program Description
The Professional Orchestra Program supports the activities of Canadian professional orchestras in their community by contributing financial assistance through Operating Grants or Project Grants.
Operating Grants provide ongoing support to the overall activities and organizational structure of orchestras on a
multi-year or
annual basis.
Project Grants assist with selected costs associated with a particular orchestral activity or event taking place in a defined and concentrated period of time.
Note: The project funding component of this program has its own guidelines and application form, which are available on the Canada Council’s website.
Eligibility
To be eligible to apply for annual funding, your organization must meet all of the following requirements. It must:
- be a professional, non-profit Canadian orchestra
- have a board of directors in place at the time of application
- have completed at least three full years of ongoing local and professional activities
- receive significant support from other levels of government, the public and the private sectors
- engage professional artistic and administrative personnel, and
- demonstrate a significant and strong commitment to Canadian creation/repertoire as part of its ongoing annual programming.
First time annual funding applicants
To be eligible to apply for annual funding, your organization must have received project grants in each of the last two competitions. It must also meet the basic eligibility criteria described above.
Grant Amount
Grants will be awarded based on a competitive process. A peer assessment committee will recommend the funding priorities and establish the amount of the Canada Council’s contribution to the proposed activities of successful applicants.
These grants cannot be used to cover expenses for activities that occurred before this program’s deadline.
CADAC
The Canada Council for the Arts collects financial and statistical information through a national online database called CADAC (Canadian Arts Data / Données sur les arts au Canada). The CADAC website www.thecadac.ca enables arts organizations applying for operating funding from public funders that are partners in CADAC to submit their financial and statistical information in the same format.
Further Information
Daniel Swift
Program Officer
Music Section
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, ext. 5248
TTY: 1-866-585-5559
December 2011