Deadline: 25-Jul-2025
The Future Focus Program is a funding collaboration between Calgary Arts Development, the Rozsa Foundation, and the Calgary Foundation.
Investigation Phase Overview
- This initial stage of the program supports organizations to have some time, space, and resources to investigate how to approach a significant circumstance or challenge facing the organization in a new or different way.
- The Investigation Phase is intended to support organizations to access experts who can provide initial insights, to increase the staff capacity required to begin to explore change-based work within the organization, and to ultimately articulate the key question or challenge facing the organization that would benefit from further exploration (potentially via the other phases of the Future Focus Program).
- The Investigation Phase utilizes a simplified application process that is intended to help remove barriers to starting work within organizations that could ultimately lead to change and transformation.
Funding Information
- Investigation Phase – up to $5,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organization or group may be eligible to apply if:
- Your organization is arts-focused or is an organization engaging the arts to fulfill its mission.
- Your organization is operating in the Treaty 7 region (including Red Deer).
- Your organization is a registered charity, registered non-profit, ad-hoc group, grassroots organization, or operating with a comparable alternative organizational structure.
- Your organization does not have an active Future Focus project or outstanding Future Focus reporting.
- Your organization does not have an active funding agreement from the Rozsa Foundation, CADA, or Calgary Foundation for the same project.
Ineligibility Criteria
- This funding program does not support:
- the development and delivery of artistic programming
- emergency operating funds
- fundraising plans and events
- routine, cyclical strategic planning
- seed funding for the establishment of new organizations
- learning processes around nonprofit and charitable operating requirements.
For more information, visit Rozsa Foundation.