Deadline: 1-Oct-25
The Community Performing Arts Organizations Operating Funding Program provides annual funding to not-for-profit community organizations that self-create and self-produce performing art productions.
What does this funding support?
- 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.
- 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
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for Community Performing Arts Organizations operating funding, you must:
- be engaged in creating and producing in the performing 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.