Canada: Arts Impact Grants

Deadline: 1-Dec-22

The British Columbia (BC) Arts Council is accepting applications for its Arts Impact Grants which are responsive and flexible funding for arts and culture organizations and collectives.

The intention of the program is to allow applicants to prioritize a specific project or group of related activities that will provide the most meaningful impact to their organization, artistic practice, or to their community.

Categories

Applications will be assessed in one of the following categories:
- Foundational Impact – Learning, Expanding, and Stabilizing: Supports the strengthening, expansion, or stabilization of organizations or collectives.
- Community Impact – Connecting, Engaging, and Extending: Supports connection with a new, pre-existing, or broader community.
- Artistic and Cultural Impact
  - Imagining, Creating, and Producing: Supports the early-stage development, creation, or production of work or exhibitions.
  - Sharing, Showcasing, and Promoting: Supports the presentation, exhibition, and circulation of work, and connection to audiences.

Funding Information

Maximum request amount is $30,000.
The request may be up to 100% of the total project budget.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible, an applicant must:
- Provide arts and cultural programming or service to the arts and culture sector in B.C. and have done so for a minimum of one year.
- Fairly compensate artists, arts and cultural practitioners, technicians, Elders, and Knowledge Keepers. Compensation must align with project and community contexts and industry standards within the field of practice, including adhering to international intellectual property rights standards and cultural ownership protocols.
- Adhere to the Criminal Record Review Act which requires that people who work with or may have unsupervised access to children or vulnerable adults must undergo a criminal record check by the Criminal Records Review Program.
- Have completed and submitted any overdue final reports on previous BC Arts Council grants by the submission deadline for this program.
Organizational applicants must also:
- Be registered and in good standing as a non-profit society or community service co-op in B.C. for at least one fiscal year prior to application with:
  - The majority of key staff and members based in B.C.; and
  - A dedicated arts and culture purpose/mandate; or
  - A purpose/mandate to provide services to the arts and culture sector in B.C.

Be an Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, Inuit) community organization or Indigenous government in B.C., offering dedicated arts and culture activities.

Be operated by a local government or public post-secondary institution in B.C. for at least one fiscal year prior to application, with a community-based board of management that sets policy for the organization’s programs and services, and that offers public programming by professional arts and cultural practitioners.

Be a book publisher that meets the eligibility requirements for either the BC Arts Council’s Project Assistance or Operating Assistance for Book Publishers program.
An Arts or Curatorial Collective must also:
- Be established and readily identified as a collective of independent B.C. artists, curators, or museum or cultural practitioners, consisting of three or more individuals who are professionally active in their field of practice, each of whom must:
  - have a minimum of two years of professional practice in their field, following basic training;
  - have a demonstrated body of previous work as an individual practitioner;
  - be a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident; and
  - have been a resident of B.C. for at least 12 months immediately prior to the application deadline, and ordinarily reside in B.C.
Have a demonstrated history of creating or presenting work as a collective and have a clear commitment to a current practice.
Have eligibility confirmed by program staff prior to applying.
Apply under the name of an individual member of the collective who acts as the key contact person and be listed as the submitting representative within the online grant system. If the application is successful, this person receives payment of the award on behalf of the group, be issued a T4A, and be responsible for submitting the final report.