Deadline: 16-Aug-24
The Future Focus Program is providing funding to arts organizations to explore a key question or challenge facing their organization and develop directions for their operations that diverge from previous or current practice in response.
The Future Focus Program is a funding collaboration between Calgary Arts Development, the Rozsa Foundation, and the Calgary Foundation. They acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, who have provided additional funds to support the program in 2024.
The program supports organizations through the process of investigating, identifying, planning, and executing significant and strategic adaptations in their operations.
Funding Information
- There is a total of $400,000 available through the program in 2024.
- Funding amounts are based on the nature of the work to be undertaken.
- Exploration Phase – up to $15,000
- Identification of needs, initial development, project planning.
- Implementation Phase – up to $25,000
- Builds upon exploration phase or previously related work, implementing change within the organization.
- Exploration Phase – up to $15,000
- Organizations may apply for more than one Exploration Phase prior to seeking Implementation Phase support.
Eligible Projects
- Organizations can access funds to engage external expertise and develop strategies to guide them in navigating the questions, challenges, and opportunities they face. This work may include projects such as:
- Making shifts to business models and organizational structures.
- Investigating and implementing new revenue generating models that do not rely on fundraising activities.
- Changing the way your organization is registered/incorporated.
- Forming strategic partnerships with other organizations, including resource sharing.
- Developing strategies for new directions.
- Major shift in organizational mission or activity to support mission.
- Venue and space investigations.
- Assessment of organizational capacity and ‘right sizing’.
- Planning for leadership succession from founding and longstanding leaders.
- Addressing organizational life cycle questions, including potential mergers and closures.
- Making shifts to business models and organizational structures.
- When planning their projects, organizations are expected to consider how Reconciliation, equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (EDIA) are integrated into all aspects of their operations.
Eligibility Criteria
- Arts organizations operating in the Treaty 7 region (including Red Deer), that are registered charities or not-for-profits, or arts-based organizations who have comparable organizational structures.
- Organizations cannot be receiving project support from any of the three partner funders individually for the same work.
For more information, visit Rozsa Foundation.