Deadline: 01-Feb-24
Provincial Arts Service Organizations Operating Funding grant launched by Alberta Foundation for the Arts is providing funding in three-year cycles to eligible member-based arts organizations that provide educational, resource-based, promotional and advocacy services as the umbrella organization for an artistic discipline or sector in the province.
Funding Information
- Funding awarded through this opportunity is calculated for each organization through two components:
- a base amount of up to $50,000 for operating expenses
- an additional amount of up to 50 per cent of eligible expenses.
What does this grant support
- This funding is designed to support your organization’s operations, which are specific to your organization’s mandate, strategic and/or business plan and activities as described in your application and/or reporting.
- AFA operating funding typically supports expenses such as:
- administration
- programming
- salaries and fees
- maintenance of equipment and fixed assets
- promotion
- other expenses as required to fulfill your organization’s mandate
Who can apply
- To be eligible for Provincial Arts Service Organizations operating funding, you must:
- have the promotion of an artistic discipline or sector as your organization’s principal mandate as stated in its incorporation documents
- engage in on-going development of, support for, and advocacy on behalf of that discipline or sector as its core primary activity
- serve a province-wide membership of both individuals and organizations
- derive revenue from sources other than the AFA
- maintain a provincial office with staff that is accessible to the membership
- engage in regular communication to the membership
- offer regular programs and development opportunities for the artistic discipline or sector
- advocate at the provincial level on behalf of the artistic discipline or sector
- Your organization must:
- be a not-for-profit organization
- be registered and in good standing under the appropriate legislation and have been in operation in Alberta for at least two years
- have at least 50% of the organization’s board members living in Alberta
- employ an Executive Director or equivalent
- demonstrate the ability to operate using good governance principles, effective administration practices, and a commitment to fiscal responsibility while maintaining its mandate
- operate as a stand-alone arts organization at arms-length from municipalities, commercial enterprises, or organizations and institutions receiving annual operating funds from the Government of Alberta or its affiliates
- comply with all Canadian Arts Database (CADAC) financial and statistical requirements
- have a board-approved cash reserve policy
- First-time applicants
- If this is your organization’s first application for AFA Provincial Arts Service Organizations operating funding, you must contact the AFA at least three months before the deadline for a preliminary eligibility assessment.
- Eligible first-time applicants will be accepted only at the beginning of each three-year cycle.
- As a first-time applicant, your organization must provide approved financial statements that demonstrate the organization has positive net assets for the three annual fiscal periods immediately prior to application.
Ineligible applicants
- Organizations that are engaged primarily in competition-based activity are not eligible for AFA funding.
When will you hear
- Grant recommendations are made to the AFA board of directors.
- Successful recipients will be notified upon board approval, generally between four to six months from the application deadline.
For more information, visit https://affta.ab.ca/funding/find-funding/provincial-arts-service-organizations-operating-funding
