Major Arts Presenters Operating Funding – Canada

Deadline: 1-Apr-25

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) is seeking applications for its Major Arts Presenters Operating Funding to provide funding in three-year cycles to eligible professional organizations that produce large-scale public presentations of arts disciplines.

What does this Grant 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 Major Arts Presenters operating funding, you must:
  • have artistic presentation as your organization’s principal mandate, as stated in its incorporation documents
  • engage in on-going development, implementation and promotion of arts presenting programming as its core primary activity in an annual program of presentation of professional artists open to the public
  • employ at least one full-time equivalent administrative and/or artistic staff member who is responsible for planning and producing artistic performances and events
• 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 three years
  • have at least 50% of the organization’s board members living in Alberta
  • contract with artists and pay professional artists fees at an industry standard (such as a union or nationally recognized rate) for their art where applicable to at least 75% of the artists involved in the organization’s presentation program for all performances
  • demonstrate the ability to operate using good governance principals, 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 enterprise, or organizations and institutions receiving annual operating funds from Government of Alberta or its affiliates
  • comply with all Canadian Arts Database (CADAC) financial and statistical data requirements
  • have a board-approved cash reserve policy

Ineligible Criteria

• Organizations that are engaged primarily in competition-based activity are not eligible for AFA funding.
• Organizations can only receive operating funding from one AFA grant program.

For more information, visit AFA.

 

For more information, visit https://affta.ab.ca/funding/find-funding/major-arts-presenters-operating-funding