Deadline: 10-May-23
The Canada Council for the Arts is now inviting applications for its Strategic Innovation Fund: Cultivate Grants provide funding to implement, pilot and prototype innovation projects that address systemic issues and benefit the broader arts sector.
This component provides support for future-oriented innovation projects that address systemic issues in the arts sector and help rebuild a more resilient, sustainable, equitable, accessible, greener, healthier, and connected arts sector.
Funding Information
- Amount: Up to $250 000
Eligible activities
- Eligible activities are the research, planning, development, testing, piloting, prototyping, sharing and/or implementation of projects that respond to one or more of the following key strategic areas:
- Strengthening the resilience and sustainability of the arts sector, including new business and revenue models
- Advancing social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in the arts
- Increasing the accessibility of arts and culture for people who are Deaf or have disabilities
- Decolonizing the arts sector
- Creating a greener arts sector
- Stimulating the digital transformation of the arts sector
- Improving the health, wellbeing, and financial security of artists and arts professionals
- Building networks and partnerships to strengthen the arts ecosystem and the role of arts in society
- Amplifying the benefit of the arts for thriving communities
Ineligible activities
- regular and ongoing operating activities
Eligibility Criteria
- Types of eligible applicants to this component include:
- artists and arts professionals
- cultural connectors
- artistic groups and collectives
- artistic organizations
- First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists, arts/cultural professionals, cultural carriers, groups, collectives, and organizations
- Organizations presently receiving core grants are eligible to apply to this component.
- Your eligibility to apply is determined by the validated profile created in the Canada Council portal.
- Targeted funding will be in place to ensure equitable support for applicants who have self-identified using the checkboxes in the Council’s portal as belonging to one of the Council’s designated priority groups, which include applicants from culturally diverse, Deaf and disability, official language minority, and Indigenous communities.
- In addition to the Council’s designated priority groups, we also encourage applications from youth (18 to 35) and other historically underserved and marginalized communities, including 2SLGBTQ and gender-diverse communities, women, and artists at intersections of multiple identities.
For more information, visit Canada Council for the Arts.