Deadline: 21-Sep-22
The City of Ottawa is pleased to announce the Capacity building program.
Objectives
- To assist Ottawa’s local arts, heritage, festival and fair organizations build organizational capacity and sustainability at key milestones in their development.
- To support all cultural communities in Ottawa build organizational capacity.
Funding Information
The City of Ottawa will provide funding to successful organizations to a maximum of $15,000.
Eligible Activities
- Eligible capacity building projects must be new organizational initiatives focused on building:
- Community engagement and outreach capacity
- Meaningful engagement with Indigenous and equity-seeking communities
- Fundraising capacity
- Leadership and governance capacity
- Marketing and promotional capacity
- Overall strategic and/or organizational capacity
- Examples of eligible capacity building projects include (but are not limited to)
- Creating space and opportunities for knowledge sharing, learning, and networking that leads to engagement, collaborations, and partnerships in the community
- Development and implementation of strategies and/or policies around Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Accessibility, Anti-racism and others
- Developing a professional strategic plan for your organization
- Review of an existing strategic plan in order to adopt a new approach, a new working model, adapt to a change of management, revisioning leadership and governance practices, realigning board of directors priorities and roles with new organizational direction, etc.
- Adapting to new technologies, increasing digitalization and online presence
- Website development and design (can include: the documenting and archiving of artistic/creative work, online ticketing system, membership and subscription portal, etc)
- Creation of a marketing plan for development of new audiences
Eligibility Criteria
- Local not-for-profit organizations, including professional collectives, with an arts, heritage, festival, or fair mandate, including organizations representing and/or celebrating First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities and equity-seeking communities that:
- Serve their local community
- Have a Board of Directors consisting of a minimum of 3 members, at least 50% of members must reside in the Ottawa Region
- Have their office/mailing address and the majority of their programming and event(s) within the limits of the city of Ottawa, Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation or Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation
- Have the ability to receive payment in the organization’s name.
Ineligible
- For-profit organizations
- Government agencies
- Organizations whose activities come under the jurisdiction of other levels or departments of government, including school boards, hospitals, universities, social services, military programs, business improvement associations.
- Political parties
- Organ izations with accumulated surpluses greater than 100% of total revenue (excluding capital assets).
For more information, visit https://ottawa.ca/en/arts-heritage-and-events/funding-calls-and-opportunities/cultural-funding/capacity-building-program#section-38e627f3-27d4-4de4-aedd-bb4623e284e3