Deadline: 14-Oct-22
The Creative New Zealand is inviting applications for Building Business Capability for Individual Practitioners Fund to develop skills that increase career sustainability and future-proof business practice.
Benefit: Your project or activities must directly benefit New Zealand arts, artists or practitioners.
Types of Funding
There are three types of funding:
- Māori art funding
- To apply for Māori arts funding:
- you must be Māori, or your project must be managed or directed by Māori
- organisations, groups or collectives must be Māori-led. If an organisation is applying for funding on behalf of an individual, that person must also be Māori.
- To apply for Māori arts funding:
- Pacific arts funding
- To apply for Pacific arts funding:
- your activities must align to their Pacific Arts Strategy 2018-2023
- Kaupapa Pasifika will be evident in the practice of your activities
- The activities will deliver outcomes to Pacific arts and artists.
- General arts funding
- The general eligibility criteria apply. Applications are assessed by artists and practitioners with experience in the relevant artform.
Funding Information
- Individuals can apply for between $5,000 and $10,000 towards project costs, including up to a total of $3,000 for capital expenditure.
What can be funded?
- This fund offers grants to support individual artists and arts practitioners to develop skills that increase their career sustainability and future-proof their business practice. Individual artists and arts practitioners can apply for activities that help them remain relevant to audiences and communities and become more resilient to changing environments.
- The project costs could include payment for your time to undertake the project and one or more of the activities listed:
- Research and planning – contracting consultants or industry experts to help you grow your business expertise. For example, developing or revising strategic, business and risk management plans, exploring alternative business models and platforms, researching and developing new audiences, markets and income streams
- Inclusion – supporting inclusion in your practice and increasing access to your work. For example, disability responsiveness training, building cultural competence in Kaupapa Māori and Kaupapa Pasifika or training to recognise and address unconscious bias.
- Manawaroa/Resilience – developing tools, resources and skills to sustain your professional practice within dynamic and challenging environments. For example, stress management training, professional supervision, wellbeing and hauora/health coaching.
- Professional development – learning new skills to grow or adapt your business practice and career. For example, a financial training course, a programme of business management study, attendance at marketing workshops or industry conferences.
- Digital skills – developing skills to increase online engagement and make online content accessible to new and diverse communities. For example, developing your website, fundraising using e-commerce, digital strategy development and online content development.
- Digital tools and equipment – accessing and acquiring relevant and fit for purpose resources to carry out your project up to a maximum cost of $3,000. For example, financial management software, Zoom subscription, live streaming or virtual reality tools for the duration of the project. You must outline how these resources will support your project in your application.
Eligibility Criteria
- This fund is for individual artists and arts practitioners who are New Zealand citizens or permanent residents.
- You must apply as an individual, not an organisation. However, they recognise an individual could be looking to develop business skills that benefit their organisation or company, eg for sole traders or owner/operators, and this fund can be used for that purpose.
- Previous recipients of this fund are not eligible to apply.
- Permanent staff members of Toi Uru Kahikatea or Toi Tōtara Haemata investment organisations are not eligible to apply. However, fixed-term employees or contractors may apply.
- Annual Arts Grant recipients are eligible to apply in their capacity as individuals, not organisations, and only for a new project, or new project phase that extends beyond what Creative New Zealand currently funds you to deliver.
- Members of a collective can apply separately as individuals and can apply for the same type of activity, or the same tools or provider. Each application will be assessed on its own merits.
Ineligible
- This fund is for building business capability and does not support costs related to building artistic capability, or the research, creation and presentation of arts activity or projects.
- In addition, the following cannot be supported:
- Activities already funded by another Creative New Zealand funding programme or initiative. For instance, the Creative Communities Scheme
- Activities another Creative New Zealand funding programme or initiative is designed to support
- Duplication of funding with other government agencies
- Projects, project phases or programmes of activity that have received support from Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage via the Arts and Culture COVID Recovery Programme (excluding Cultural Sector Emergency Relief Fund, the Arts and Culture Event Support Scheme and the Grant for Self-Employed Individuals)
- Projects or project phases that have received support from the Creative Careers Service, the pilot co-designed by the Ministry of Social Development and Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage
- Projects or project phases that have received support from the New Zealand Music Commission Capability Grants Programme
- Game design, fashion design and commercial design
- Some film and screen activity
- Purchase of capital items (excluding digital tools or equipment up to $3,000), renovating or buying buildings or restoring marae.
For more information, visit https://www.creativenz.govt.nz/Funds-and-opportunities/Find-opportunities/Building-Business-Capability-for-Individual-Practitioners-Fund
