Deadline: 1-Mar-24
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) is inviting applications for the Community Support Organizations Operating Funding program.
This grant provides annual funding to eligible not-for-profit community organizations that provide arts programs and services to communities, including those with limited arts opportunities.
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
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for Community Support Organizations operating funding, you must:
- Have programming in artist support and development, artist training or public participation in the 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 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 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
Ineligible
- Organizations that are engaged primarily in competition-based activity are not eligible for AFA funding.
- First-time applicants
- If this is your organization’s first application for AFA Community Support 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.
Conditions
- Your organization is only eligible to receive support from one AFA operating funding opportunity in any given year. Funding is intended for the activities planned for your organization’s next fiscal year, based on information provided in your funding application.
- Ineligible expenses for operating funding include, but are not limited to:
- Alcohol
- Amortization
- GST expenses
- Fundraising expenses
- Bad debt and other paper losses
- Capital expenses
- Other non-cash or in-kind expenditures
For more information, visit AFA.
