Deadline: 01-Oct-2024
The Shevchenko Foundation is accepting applications for Literary Arts Sector to support Canadian organizations, collectives, publications, bookshops, and publishers working in all forms that express a tangible connection to the Ukrainian Canadian experience.
The Shevchenko Foundation’s grant-giving stewardship extends priority to projects and programs that:
- Contribute to enriching the Canadian experience with the beauty, passion, and diversity of Ukrainian Canadian culture;
- Contribute to strengthening the Ukrainian community in Canada;
- Share Ukrainian Canadian cultural contributions with a broad and diverse public on a community, regional or national level;
- Exhibit financial capability to undertake and sustain the project and/or program within the boundaries of a business plan, either as an organization or an individual;
- Employ new technologies and partnership models on how Ukrainian Canadian cultural heritage is created, produced, disseminated, and preserved.
Eligible Projects
- The Literary Arts Sector of the Arts Pillar for Organizations provides funds toward:
- Established and recognized publishers in Canada for the publication of original literary works, that express a tangible connection to the Ukrainian Canadian experience.
- Promotion and dissemination of literary forms that express a tangible connection to the Ukrainian Canadian experience.
- Translation of literature from Ukrainian into English or French, and translation of Canadian literature with a tangible connection to a Ukrainian Canadian experience into Ukrainian for publication or other dissemination.
Who is eligible?
- Organizations
- Canadian not-for-profit community organizations, artist collectives, Canadian registered private businesses whose activities occur primarily in Canada, and Canadian chartered educational institutions.
- Canadian not-for-profit professional, semi-professional and amateur groups governed by a board of directors or a body responsible for the organization.
- Note: It is the responsibility of organizations working with children under the age of 18, who are funded by the Shevchenko Foundation, to ensure that they follow youth protection policies and procedures in their jurisdictions.
- How often can one apply?
- No new application will be accepted if a Final Report has not been submitted from a previous grant.
- Applicants who are applying for more than one grant in the calendar year can do so only when the Final Report on the first project has been approved by the Shevchenko Foundation.
- Applications for projects that are phased over more than one year will be accepted. Funding will be granted in phases, subject to meeting annual reporting requirements.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants
- Dissemination to reach readers and audiences can occur through:
- Traditional and digital publications
- Digital presentations
- Live literary and storytelling events, readings, talks, recordings, and podcasts
- Reader development projects, workshops and residencies
- Collaborative writing projects, spoken word/live literature, and experimental writing projects/practices
- Eligible literary works include:
- Fiction
- Poetry
- Literary criticism
- Creative non-fiction
- Contemporary literary biography/autobiography
- Children’s literature
- Illustrated picture books
- Graphic novels
- Project grant support is not provided for industry defined annual ongoing programming nor yearly overhead expenses of an arts organization or publisher.
- Dissemination to reach readers and audiences can occur through:
For more information, visit Shevchenko Foundation.