City of Windsor’s Arts, Culture and Heritage Fund (ACHF)

Deadline: 26-Mar-21

The City of Windsor’s Arts, Culture and Heritage Fund (ACHF) invests in the soul of their City by providing financial assistance to locally-developed arts, culture, and heritage projects that provide exciting, surprising, and meaningful opportunities to strengthen their creative community.

This funding initiative supports the City of Windsor's priority to build a strong and stable creative community that contributes to a prosperous creative economy and to making Windsor an amazing place to live.

Program Objectives

Promote innovation and support new, dynamic efforts in the creative community;
Develop unique cultural resources to enhance the health and vitality of our communities and the quality of life for our people;
Encourage participants in the creative community to stay and continue to create and work in the City of Windsor;
Make arts, culture and heritage central to the lives of all our people;
Increase public awareness and access to the arts, culture and heritage sectors;
Celebrate diversity by recognizing our rich creative community; and
Value creativity by promoting and supporting arts, culture and heritage.

Key Priorities

Increase Windsor's attractiveness, affordability, and quality of life;
Support the development of new audiences;
Increase the supply of skilled cultural workers;
Nurture creativity and imagination through arts, culture and heritage projects;
Encourage the inclusion of diverse cultural groups; and
Increase public access to the creative community.

Funding Information

Project funding under the ACHF program will not exceed $5,000 per funding round.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible Organizations

To be eligible for consideration, the applicant must be either an arts, culture or heritage organization that meets all of the following criteria:

Be Windsor-based;
Not receive concurrent funding from the City of Windsor;
Be not-for-profit, incorporated as a not-for-profit, or a registered charity;
Primarily produce and display work, and conduct regular operations in Windsor;
Have arts, culture or heritage as the main focus;
Be in ‘good-standing’ for at least one year at the time of the application;
Demonstrate fiscal responsibility;
Be directed by recognized professionals and / or managed by experienced volunteers.

Eligible Individuals

To be eligible for consideration, the applicant must:

Be a Windsor resident;
Primarily produce and display work outside of an organizational framework;
Be engaged in their arts, culture or heritage activity in the City of Windsor;
Be a recognized professional (have completed formal/informal training).

Eligible Projects

Eligible Projects under the ACHF program may include, but are not limited to:

Providing opportunities for organizations to engage youth and new creators;
Arts, culture and heritage tourism initiatives that result in new product development, increased market-readiness and new business opportunities;
Outreach projects which identify ways to strengthen organizational capacity to reach new markets, regions, cultural minorities and untapped future audiences.
Eligible Projects must:
- Not receive concurrent funding from the City of Windsor for this initiative;
- Be accessible to everyone;
- Be publicized citywide;
- Offer a unique cultural experience;
- Have a separate budget from the organization’s annual operating budget;
- Demonstrate support (financial or in-kind) beyond what is provided by the fund.