Deadline: 22-Apr-22
The Creative New Zealand (NZ) is seeking applications for its Building Business Capability for Individual Practitioners Fund 2022.
This fund offers grants to support individual artists and arts practitioners to develop skills that increase their career sustainability and future-proof their business practice. Individual artists and arts practitioners can apply for activities that help them remain relevant to audiences and communities and become more resilient to changing environments.
Funding Information
The minimum amount you can apply for is $5,000. The maximum amount you can apply for is $10,000, including up to a total of $3,000 for capital expenditure costs.
Benefits
To be eligible for Creative New Zealand funding:
- Your project or activities must directly benefit New Zealand arts, artists or arts practitioners
- You must have a track record of experience and success — this means you must have:
- recognition from peers or experts
- achieved a degree of critical or sales success
- specialised training or practical experience/object
What they Fund?
Individuals can apply for between $5,000 and $10,000, which could include one or a combination of the following:
- Research and planning – contracting consultants or industry experts to help you grow your business expertise. For example, developing or revising strategic, business and risk management plans, exploring alternative business models and platforms, researching and developing new audiences, markets and income streams.
- Inclusion – supporting inclusion in your practice and increasing access to your work. For example, disability responsiveness training, building cultural competence in Kaupapa Maori and Kaupapa Pasifika or training to recognise and address unconscious bias.
- Manawaroa/Resilience – developing tools, resources and skills to sustain your professional practice within dynamic and challenging environments. For example, stress management training, professional supervision, wellbeing and hauora/health coaching.
- Professional development – learning new skills to grow or adapt your business practice and career. For example, a financial training course, a programme of business management study, attendance at marketing workshops or industry conferences.
- Digital skills – developing skills to increase online engagement and make online content accessible to new and diverse communities. For example, developing your website, fundraising using e-commerce, digital strategy development and online content development.
- Digital tools and equipment – accessing and acquiring relevant and fit for purpose resources to carry out your project up to a maximum cost of $3,000. For example, financial management software, Zoom subscription, live streaming or virtual reality tools.
Eligibility Criteria
You may be eligible for more than one pool, but you can only choose one for your application.
- General arts funding pool
- Individuals who are New Zealand citizens or permanent residents.
- Nga toi Maori funding pool
- Individuals who are New Zealand citizens or permanent residents, and who are also Tangata Whenua Maori (or whose proposed project is managed or directed by Maori).
- Pacific arts funding pool
- Individuals who are New Zealand citizens or permanent residents.
- Your project must align to their Pacific Arts Strategy, and Kaupapa Pasifika must be evident in the practice of the project
For more information, visit https://www.creativenz.govt.nz/find-funding/funds/building-business-capability-for-individual-practitioners-fund-2022