Deadline: 31-Jan-23
The Halifax Regional Municipality is seeking applications for its Community Museums Grant Program to provide operating and project-specific grants to registered non-profit organizations and charities.
The purpose of this program is to provide financial assistance for core museum operations and build the organizational capacity of eligible community museums located in the Halifax Regional Municipality.
Type of Grant
- There are two types of grants available under the Community Museums Grants Program.
- Operating Grant: funds towards “core” recurring operating expenses which are ongoing, fixed general and administrative expenditures required to operate the museum and manage its collection. These awards may be multi-year subject to the program’s budget capacity.
- Project Grant: funds towards a specific project undertaken by the museum in the year for which application has been made for a grant. These are “one-time” grants meaning that they are not multi-year municipal funding commitments.
Funding Information
- Operating Grant
- Tier I: up to a maximum of $25,000 per fiscal year for a community museum that participates in the provincial Museum Evaluation Program and has attained a score of 50/100 or higher;
- Tier II: up to a maximum of $10,000 per fiscal year for a community museum that does not participate in the provincial Museum Evaluation Program and/or has received a score 50/100 with yearly operating expenditures averaging more than $10,000 over the three years immediately preceding application to the program; gold
- Tier III: a developmental award of up to $5,000 per fiscal year to a community museum that does not participate in the provincial Museum Evaluation Program and/or has received a score 50/100 with yearly operating expenditures averaging $10,000 or less over the three years immediately preceding application to the program.
- Project Grants
- The Project Grant category has three subcategories:
- Regular Project Grant—up to $5,000;
- Special Project Grant—up to $20,000 or up to $10,000 towards hosting an anniversary event; and
- Capital Grant—up to $25,000.
- The Project Grant category has three subcategories:
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be a registered non-profit organization or a registered Canadian charity. A non-profit organization includes the following forms:
- a society registered incorporated under the Societies Act (1989); gold
- a non-profit association incorporated under the Co-operative Associations Act (1989); gold
- a not-for-profit corporation under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act (2009); gold
- a non-profit incorporated under an Act of the Nova Scotia Legislature; gold
- a registered charity is incorporated under the Income Tax Act (Canada).
- An organization applying for admission to the program:
- shall be incorporated and have operated a community museum for a minimum of three consecutive years;
- shall be located within the geographic boundary of HRM;
- has legal title to the collection it houses in its museum on a permanent basis; and
- shall own, lease or license the property that the museum occupies, with a minimum of three years remaining in any lease or license agreement as of the date of application.
- Further, the museum shall:
- be open to the public a minimum of three months per year, and publicize its hours of operation to the general public;
- maintain separate financial records covering museum operations, as distinct from any other activity of the applicant
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