Deadline: 1-Nov-22
Applications are now open for the Professional Performing Arts Organizations Operating Funding Program.
This grant provides funding in three-year cycles to eligible professional organizations that self-create and self-produce performing art productions.
Funding Information
Organizations which have an average annual CDR under $1 million, and have been in an AFA funding stream for a minimum of three years, may apply to the Creative Year option under this funding. This option allows organizations to receive non-reduced funding in a year without a performing season.
What does grant support?
- 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.
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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
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To be eligible for Professional Performing Arts Organizations operating funding, you must:
- have public performing arts programming as your organization’s principal mandate as stated in its incorporation documents
- engage in on-going development, implementation and promotion of performing arts programming as its core primary activity in an annual program or full season of professional self-created and self-produced work for public presentation
- employ at least one full-time equivalent administrative and/or artistic staff member for the minimum duration of your programming season
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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 three years
- have at least 50% of the organization’s board members living in Alberta
- pay a ‘fee for service’ at minimum industry standard rates (such as a union or nationally recognized rate) to at least 75% of the artists involved in the organization’s performance program for all performances
- demonstrate the ability to operate using good governance principles, effective administration practices, and a commitment to fiscal responsibility while maintaining an artistic 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
- comply with all Canadian Arts Database (CADAC) financial and statistical data requirements
- have a board-approved cash reserve policy
Ineligible
- Organizations that engage primarily in competition-based activity are not eligible for AFA funding.
- Organizations can only receive operating funding from one AFA grant program.
For more information, visit AFA.
For more information, visit https://affta.ab.ca/funding/find-funding/professional-performing-arts-organizations-operating-funding
