Major Arts Presenters Operating Funding

This grant provides funding in three-year cycles to eligible professional organizations that produce large-scale public presentations of arts disciplines. The funding is designed to support organization operations specific to their mandate, strategic and/or business plan and activities. Organizations must have artistic presentation as their principal mandate and engage in ongoing development, implementation and promotion of arts presenting programming as their core primary activity in an annual program of presentation of professional artists open to the public. Funding amounts are calculated based on Community Derived Revenue (CDR), which is defined as an organization's total annual revenue minus all federal, provincial and municipal government grants. The funding typically supports expenses such as administration, programming, salaries and fees, maintenance of equipment and fixed assets, promotion, and other expenses required to fulfill the organization's mandate.