Deadline: 4-Feb-25
The Winnipeg Arts Council is pleased to announce the Project Grant Program intended for new and developing arts organizations, established arts organizations that work on a project basis, and arts organizations undertaking a special, one-time initiative.
The program is designed to provide partial support to a broad range of activities and art forms, reflecting different cultural traditions and art practices. A Project Grant must be applied to a specific project – with potential for artistic merit and civic impact – planned to take place within the 18 months following the notification date (mid-May of each year).
Funding Information
- The maximum amount of support for any arts organization or artist collective from the Project Grant Program is $10,000.
Ineligible Funding
- Project Grants are not available for:
- ongoing organizational costs including general overhead, salaries, and administration (reasonable administrative costs directly related to the project may be included);
- competition prizes, awards, or scholarships;
- annual conferences;
- travel, tours and/or activity outside Winnipeg;
- activity undertaken or costs incurred prior to the award notification date;
- deficit reduction or fundraising projects;
- projects that forecast a deficit;
- capital projects/purchase of equipment (where specialized equipment associated with the project’s production is required, please contact the Program Manager to discuss eligibility);
- projects that are included in the ongoing activities of any organization which receives Operating or Program Support grants from the Winnipeg Arts Council;
- projects that are included in the ongoing activities of organizations which receive other grants or funds from the City of Winnipeg or any of its agencies;
- activities for which any member of the group or collective has a pending request or confirmed funding from another Winnipeg Arts Council program
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants for Project Grants must meet all of the following criteria:
- be an organization that has as its primary mandate and core activity the creation, production or presentation of the performing, visual, literary, film, video or media arts.
- be based and active in Winnipeg, and provide programming or services that are open to the public and publicized city-wide.
- be registered as a not-for-profit corporation in Manitoba, governed by a volunteer board of directors, and have operated as such for a minimum of six months, OR be an artist collective that meets the special criteria below, in addition to the criteria for not-for-profit corporations.
- have qualified artistic and administrative leadership (which may be combined), and pay principal artistic contributors for their services in accordance with generally accepted professional standards.
- receive revenue from sources other than the WAC. These may include box-office revenues, memberships, sponsorships/donations from individuals or businesses, in-kind contributions or support from foundations and other levels of government.
- Arts service organizations whose primary objective is to support the development of one or more art forms through a range of services to professional artists and/or not-for-profit arts organizations, or through the bringing together of professional artists and the arts community at large, may be eligible.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Project Grants are not available to:
- organizations or collectives that do not have as their primary mandate and core activity the creation, production or presentation of the performing, visual, literary, film, video or media arts;
- organizations or collectives that are not based in and active in Winnipeg;
- individual artists;
- for-profit organizations;
- civic, provincial or federal departments or branches;
- health, social service, religious or sports organizations;
- educational institutions;
- private club or community centre programs;
- trade unions, trade guilds, and professional associations;
- organizations that receive multi-year Operating or Program Support grants from the Winnipeg Arts Council;
- organizations or collectives that receive other grants or funds from the City of Winnipeg or any of its agencies;
- organizations or collectives that have previously received support from any Winnipeg Arts Council program and have not submitted an acceptable Final Report.
For more information, visit Winnipeg Arts Council.