Deadline: 7-May-21
The Rozsa Foundation has announced the Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour (IBPOC) Arts Leaders Residency Grant Program to advance their networks, experience, skills, and knowledge.
In specific response to addressing that need, and as part of the Rozsa Foundation’s long-term commitment to strengthening the arts sector, they are proud to offer the Arts Leaders Residency Grant.
This grant is to support mid-career IBPOC artists and arts administrators who aspire to leadership roles in the arts.
This grant stream supports a flexible approach to high-impact, leadership-focused learning, with direct mentorship from the artistic and/or executive leadership of the host organization.
The nature of this work will vary based on the resident and host organization, but should be centred on leadership-focused responsibilities such as programming and program development, strategic planning, partnership-building, casting, staff leadership and management, budgeting, working with the board, advocacy, and community relations, among others.
Funding Information
- The IBPOC Arts Leaders Residency Grant provides $20,000 to support a part-time position for one year.
Ineligible Expenses
- The Foundation does not fund ongoing administrative salaries (except under the IBPOC Residency stream), ongoing administrative costs, deficit financing, debt repayment or capital campaigns.
- Normal programming activities are not eligible, but new programs or significant expansions are eligible if they can advance the organization in a meaningful way, and it is their understanding that new activities may require additional administrative capacity, which is an eligible expense.
- They do not provide operating or undesignated funding, nor do they fund retroactively. If you are incurring costs before their assessment meeting, the expenses may be ineligible.
Additional Points
- It is possible for multiple organizations to apply in partnership with one another if at least one of the partner organizations is IBPOC-led and a clear rationale of the benefit behind a shared residence is provided. Only the applicant organization needs to be a registered charity.
- The Rozsa Foundation will provide external mechanisms for addressing conflict resolution or mediation that arise as part of a residency to protect the resident from reprisal.
- The Rozsa Foundation will provide opportunities for residents to meet as a cohort, without organizational representatives, as well as to access other relevant networking opportunities.
- They also recommend building in some time to provide the resident access to their own networks and/or communities of support as a part of their work schedule.
- Residencies should be completed within eighteen months from notification of funding. As part of the final evaluation, the host organization will be asked to identify what learnings emerged from the residency that will be carried forward.
Eligibility Criteria
The following requirements apply to all Rozsa Foundation granting streams:
- You must be a charity with a valid CRA charitable business number (9 digits, 2 letters, 4 digits).
- You must be an arts-focused organization or be applying for support in engaging the arts to further your mission.
- The focus of the investment is in Calgary and the surrounding area (including Rocky View County, MD Foothills, Banff, Canmore, Drumheller, and Rosebud) as well as to provincial organizations whose initiatives will directly benefit the Calgary arts sector. Action Learning Projects are eligible regardless of where in Alberta the organization is based.
- Organizations located outside of these areas may still be eligible but should contact them prior to beginning the application.
For more information, visit https://www.rozsafoundation.org/ibpoc-arts-leaders-residency-grants
