Deadline: 13-Mar-25
Capital Regional District has launched applications for the Equity Grants to fund arts programing by and for communities that face significant collective barriers to accessing funding.
Equity Grants can support:
- Artistic growth
- Development and production of an artistic project
- Presentation or circulation of an artistic project
- Other arts activities
Funding Information
- Grant amount: up to $10,000
Eligible Activities
- visual arts
- dance/improvisation
- storytelling/spoken word
- artistic craft/printmaking/fibre arts/etc.
- theatre/performance
- film/media arts
- music
- arts festivals/arts programming
- Other
Ineligible Activities
- The following are generally considered ineligible activities for support under this program:
- equipment purchases or other major capital expenditures
- fundraising activities, contests, or competitions
- scholarships
- expenses for activities that have already taken place (activities cannot be funded retroactively)
Eligible Communities
- Indigenous
- Racialized persons or people of colour
- Deaf or Hard of Hearing
- LGBTQ2+
- Those living with the challenges related to a physical disability
- Those living with the challenges related to mental illness
- Other
Eligibility Criteria
- Unfortunately, they are unable to fund individual artists. Legislation governing the CRD only permits the Arts & Culture Support Service to fund registered not-for-profit societies. Approved funds resulting from a successful application must be paid to a society and because of this an applicant must be either:
- a society from a self-identified community, registered in BC, OR,
- a group or artist collective from a self-identified community who is not a society but who are leading a project and has found a society willing to act as, what they call, a Sponsor Society.
- Whether the group is a society themselves or working with a Sponsor Society, the society making the application must:
- be a not-for-profit society registered in British Columbia.
- have an active Board of Directors.
- be based in one of the jurisdictions that contributes to the Arts & Culture Support Service, as indicated by the organization’s registered, physical address on its BC NFP Society registration document.
- present their project in a jurisdiction that contributes to the Arts & Culture Support Service.
- be able to provide financial statements and other society information to establish accountability for the project.
For more information, visit CRD.