Deadline: 20-Jan-22
The British Columbia Arts Council has announced the applications for the Arts Impact Grant Program, a responsive and flexible funding program.
This grant allows applicants to prioritize a project that will provide the most necessary and meaningful impact to their organization, practice, and/or community during this time of recovery, renewal, and change.
Awards are available to support a specific project, or a suite of related activities, which may include but are not limited to:
- Research, development, creation, and production of new work, including commissioning and collaboration.
- Presentation, circulation, distribution, exhibition, and dissemination of work (e.g., in-province, national, and international touring).
- Program enhancements (e.g., community or youth engagement initiatives).
- Organizational development and/or capacity building including human resources, governance, and/or revenue diversification projects (e.g., co-op placements).
- Sector development activities or services, or collaborative projects.
- Leadership development (e.g., equity, diversity, inclusion and access processes or Indigenous outreach training) and mentorship opportunities.
Priorities
Funding priority may be given to projects from organizations led by and/or rooted in:
- Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, and/or Inuit) communities.
- Underserved communities, including Deaf, Disability and Mad arts; Racialized and/or people of colour; 2SLGBTQQIA+.
- Regional areas in B.C. (communities outside of greater Vancouver and the capital region, not including Sooke, Metchosin, the Gulf Islands, or the Juan de Fuca electoral area).
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 and/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/or 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 either a dedicated arts and cultural mandate or a mandate to provide services to the arts and culture sector in B.C. OR
- Be an Indigenous Government, Indigenous Community Organization, or Métis Chartered Community offering dedicated arts and culture activities. OR
- 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. OR
- Be a book publisher that meets the eligibility requirements for either the BC Arts Council’s Project Assistance or Operating Assistance for Book Publishers
- Arts or Curatorial Collective applicants must:
- Be established and readily identified as a collective of independent B.C. artists, curators, museum and/or cultural practitioners, consisting of three or more individuals who are professionally active in their field of practice.
For more information, visit https://www.bcartscouncil.ca/program/arts-impact-grant/
