Professional Performing Arts Organizations Operating Funding

This grant provides funding in three-year cycles to eligible professional organizations that self-create and self-produce performing art productions. The funding supports professional performing arts organizations in Alberta that have public performing arts programming as their principal mandate and engage in ongoing development, implementation and promotion of performing arts programming as their core primary activity. Organizations must employ at least two permanent full-time equivalent staff, pay industry standard fees to artists, and comply with Canadian Arts Database (CADAC) financial and statistical data requirements. Funding is 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 is designed to support operations specific to the organization's mandate, strategic and business plan, including fees for artists, production and programming costs, salaries, facilities, and marketing. Organizations receive funding over three-year cycles and must submit interim and final reports demonstrating appropriate use of funds.