The Alberta Foundation for the Arts is inviting applications for a Community Support Organizations Operating Grant Program to provide annual funding to eligible not-for-profit community organizations that provide arts programs and services to communities, including those with limited arts opportunities.
What does this grant supports?
This funding is designed to support your organization’s operations, which are specific to your organization’s mandate, strategic and/or business plan and activities as described in your application and/or reporting.
AFA operating funding typically supports expenses such as:
administration
programming
salaries and fees
maintenance of equipment and fixed assets
promotion
other expenses as required to fulfill your organization’s mandate.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for Community Support Organizations operating funding, you must:
have programming in artist support and development, artist training or public participation in the arts as your organization’s principal mandate as stated in its incorporation document
Your organization must:
be a not-for-profit organization
be registered and in good standing under the appropriate legislation and have been in operation in Alberta for at least two years
have at least 50% of the organization’s board members living in Alberta
demonstrate the ability to operate using good governance principles, effective administration practices,and a commitment to fiscal responsibility while maintaining its mandate
operate as a stand-alone arts organization at arms-length from municipalities, commercial enterprises, or organizations and institutions receiving annual operating funds from the Government of Alberta or its affiliates.
First-time applicants
If this is your organization’s first application for AFA Community Support Organizations operating funding, you must contact the AFA at least three months before the deadline for a preliminary eligibility assessment.
As a first-time applicant, your organization must provide approved financial statements that demonstrate the organization has positive net assets for the two annual fiscal periods immediately prior to application.
