CFPs: Community Support Organizations Operating Funding (Canada)

Deadline: 03-Mar-25
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts is pleased to announce the Community Support Organizations Operating Funding which provides annual funding to eligible not-for-profit community organizations that provide arts programs and services to communities, including those with limited arts opportunities.

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 as described in your application and/or reporting.

Eligible Funding

• 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

Ineligible Funding

• alcohol
• amortization
• GST expenses
• fundraising expenses
• bad debt and other paper losses
• capital expenses
• other non-cash or in-kind expenditures

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible for Community Support Organizations operating funding, you must:
  • have programming in artist support and development, artist training or public participation in the arts as your organization’s principal mandate as stated in its incorporation document
• 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 two years
  • have at least 50% of the organization’s board members living in Alberta
  • demonstrate the ability to operate using good governance principles, effective administration practices,and a commitment to fiscal responsibility while maintaining its 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

Ineligibility Criteria

• Organizations that are engaged primarily in competition-based activity are not eligible for AFA funding.

For more information, visit Alberta Foundation for the Arts.