Deadline: 2-Mar-26
The Community Support Organizations Operating Funding Program provides annual funding to eligible not-for-profit community organizations that provide arts programs and services to communities, including those with limited arts opportunities.
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 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
- Ineligible applicants
- Organizations that are engaged primarily in competition-based activity are not eligible for AFA funding.
For more information, visit Alberta Foundation for the Arts.