Deadline: 20-Feb-2025
Submissions are now open for the New Initiatives Grants Program.
Objectives
- The City of Regina uses an outcomes-based approach to funding. All applications are evaluated based on their alignment and support of the City’s funding objectives.
- Preserve and Celebrate Regina’s Cultural Heritage
- Preserve and celebrate cultural heritage resources and spaces
- Preserve and celebrate intangible cultural heritage (i.e. languages, traditions and stories)
- Animate the City’s public spaces and parks (i.e. placemaking, festivals and events)
- Strengthen the artistic and cultural communities
- Build community through partnership and collaboration
- Improve awareness to and access to the arts
- Offer direct supports to artists
- Contribute to the growth of the arts and culture sector
- Culture
- Embrace Diversity
- Address the cultural aspirations of equity-deserving groups, such as First Nations, Métis, Inuit, ethnocultural minorities, newcomers, 2SLGBTQIAP+, people with disabilities, etc.
- Strengthen Indigenous communities’ cultural presence in Regina
- Preserve Regina’s immigrant history
- Encourage intercultural and diverse relationships
- Truth & Reconciliation
- Through cultural initiatives:
- Implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
- Address any of the Truth & Reconciliation Calls to Action
- Address the Calls for Justice for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA people (MMIWG2S); and/or
- Tell the story and celebrate the cultures of Indigenous Peoples.
- Through cultural initiatives:
- Embrace Diversity
- Preserve and Celebrate Regina’s Cultural Heritage
Funding Information
- There are two levels of funding
- Minor funding of up to $10,000, for proposals, either New Initiatives or Annual Activity that are completed within 12 months.
- Major funding of over $10,000 and up to $30,000, for proposals, either New Initiatives or Annual Activity that are completed within 12 months.
Duration
- The grant period is May 1, 2025, to April 30, 2026, unless approval is given for a project that requires longer than 12 months to complete.
Eligibility Criteria
- For all proposals, either New Initiatives or Annual Activity, organizations must:
- be a registered non-profit community organization that is operating with an active status, and that has been incorporated for at least one year at the time of application submission.
- be based in Saskatchewan or be a provincial organization and deliver services to the residents of Regina;
- demonstrate sound financial management and accountability;
- be responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of those activities for which the funds are intended.
- To apply for Annual Activity proposals, organizations must also:
- have completed at least one year of the proposed programming and consider the activities to be a demonstrable, ongoing element of the organization’s core programming, related to their mandate.
- organizations that host a biennial program/project/initiative/event are eligible to apply for annual activity funding. If approved through adjudication to be funded, the program/project/initiative/event will only receive funding on years’ the initiative is being held in Regina.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following organizations are not eligible to apply for City of Regina Minor and Major funding:
- post-secondary institutions, universities or private schools;
- municipal service providers such as fire, police and libraries;
- Saskatchewan Health Authority, hospitals, nurse.
For more information, visit City of Regina.
