Deadline: 01-Oct-21
Applications are now open for the Community Performing Arts Organizations Operating Funding grant to provide annual funding to eligible not-for-profit community organizations that self-create and self-produce performing art productions.
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.
Ineligible Expenses
Ineligible expenses for AFA operating funding include, but are not limited to:
- alcohol
- amortization
- GST expenses
- fundraising expenses
- bad debt and other paper losses
- capital expenses
Who can apply
- To be eligible for Community Performing Arts Organizations operating funding, you must:
- be engaged in creating and producing in the performing arts as your organization’s principal mandate as stated in its incorporation document
- Your organization must:
- be a not-for-profit organization
- be registered and in good standing under the appropriate legislation (eg. Alberta Corporate Registry) 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
- demonstrate the ability to balance good governance practices and fiscal responsibility, while maintaining their artistic mandate
- operate at arms-length from organizations and institutions receiving annual operating funds from the Government of Alberta, their affiliates, and/or commercial enterprises
- First-time applicants
- If this is your organization’s first application for AFA Community Performing Arts Organizations operating funding, you must contact the AFA at least three months before the deadline for a preliminary eligibility assessment.
- As a first-time applicant, your organization must provide approved financial statements that demonstrate the organization has positive net assets for the two 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/community-performing-arts-organizations-operating-funding
