Community Focused Arts Organizations

This grant provides annual operating funding to arts-based organizations that foster artistic engagement and community participation through regular and recurring programming while maintaining some level of staffing to carry out their mission and mandates. The program supports organizations with at least one full-time equivalent staff member in an administrative and/or programming capacity, and that have been legally registered and operating in Alberta for a minimum of two full fiscal years. Funding supports a broad range of artistic activities, including the production, presentation, and dissemination of artistic works and/or providing artist supports specific to an organization's mission and mandate. Eligible organizations must demonstrate good governance principles, effective administration practices, and a commitment to fiscal responsibility while operating as a stand-alone arts organization at arms-length from municipalities, commercial enterprises, or other government-funded institutions.