Guidelines: Calgary Arts Emergency Resiliency Fund
Application Deadline: May 20, 2016 at 4:30pm MST
Contents
- Program Goal
- Program Description
- Eligibility
- Program Streams
- How to Apply
- Assessment Process
- Application Checklist
- Notification of Results
- Contact Information
Program Goal
The goal of this program is to provide one-time support for Calgary arts organizations that have been impacted by the economic downturn and global events.
Program Description
Through a $1,000,000 partnership with The City of Calgary, this program will allocate investments to arts organizations that have been affected by decreased revenues, such as earned and corporate support, and increased demand on programs as a result of the economic downturn. These funds are provided in order to ensure that Calgarians continue to enjoy the benefits of, and have access to, a strong local arts community.
Eligibility
To be eligible for the Calgary Arts Emergency Resiliency Fund, an organization must:
- Operate under an arts mandate.
- Be registered as a non-profit organization, corporation or society in the Province of Alberta.
- Maintain operations through the whole or majority of the year.
- Maintain a significant amount of activities that support Calgary artists or are accessible to Calgary citizens.
- Be receiving investment from Calgary Arts Development in 2016 through the Cornerstone Program or have applied to the Operating Grant Program or Organizational Opportunity Grant Program in 2016.
The following groups are ineligible for investment through this program:
- Political, trade union or fraternal lodge organizations.
- Degree- and diploma-granting educational institutes such as colleges and universities.
- Organizations that receive Emergency Resiliency Funding directly from The City of Calgary.
Calgary Arts Development staff review all applications for eligibility.
Program Streams
Applicants may apply to one of the following:
- $10,000 and under requests: Applicants to this stream will be asked to complete a shortened application.
- $10,000 and over requests: Applicants to this stream will be asked to complete a full application.
How to Apply
All applications must be submitted using the online granting interface.
If you have any questions about how to access your organization’s account, please contact us at erf@calgaryartsdevelopment.com or 403.264.5330 ext. 116.
The application process will be available April 22, 2016 through our online grant interface.
All applications must be submitted through the online granting interface by May 20, 2016 at 4:30pm MST.
If a deadline extension is required, Calgary Arts Development must receive a written request before this deadline. The full Deadline Extension Policy is available here.
Assessment Process
An independent, arm’s-length assessment committee made up of artistic peers and/or community members with recent experience assessing arts organizations through Calgary Arts Development programs and/or other investment programs will make investment recommendations according to the following weighted criteria:
- Detriment to delivery of mandate (40%): Detriment to delivery of mandate is considered relative to the ongoing work of the organization and an inability to meet current or increasing demand for services, or sustain their artistic (1) and public (2) impact due to the economic downturn. This will be informed by peer assessment conducted in 2016 investment programs.
- Resiliency funding impact (30%): The degree to which one-time emergency resiliency funds adequately address ongoing risk for the organization.
- Financial impact (30%): The degree to which an organization has been affected by the economic downturn, relative to the organization’s annual budget. This will be informed by peer assessment conducted in 2016 investment programs.
1: The quality of an organization’s artistic programming and artistic operations.
2 : The quality of an organization’s public engagement and participation. “Public” is defined as a community impacted by the organization, including audience, artists, arts professionals and volunteers.
Notification of Results
Applicants will be notified of the results of their applications in writing in July 2016.
Short Application Checklist
For organizations applying for $10,000 or less:
- Organization information (applicant contact information).
- Describe the financial impact you’ve experienced because of the economic downturn (200 words max).
- State the projected dollar value of the impact to your current fiscal year (numerical response only).
- Describe the most immediate risk to your organization’s artistic and public impact arising from the economic downturn (200 words max).
- Most recent financial statements. Applicants must include a Statement of Operations and a Balance Sheet with two years of comparatives. If audited financial statements are unavailable, applicants must include the signatures of two board members not involved in creating the statements (PDF files only).
- Support materials. Provide materials that relate to your application such as revised budgets, letters from sponsors, etc. You may include up to two attachments with a maximum size of 4MB each.
- Please provide short descriptions of each attachment in the fields provided. Acceptable file formats are PDF, JPG, DOC, DOCX, XLS and XLSX.
Full Application Checklist
For organizations applying for $10,000 or more:
- Organization information (applicant contact information).
- Indicate which revenue sources and/or expenses have or will be negatively impacted by the economic downturn (select all options that apply from list provided in the online application).
- Briefly describe the nature of the impact(s) you indicated above (200 words max).
- State the projected dollar value of the impact to your current fiscal year (numerical response only).
- Indicate which areas of your organization have or will be negatively impacted by the economic downturn (select all options that apply from list provided in the online application).
- Briefly describe the nature of the impact(s) you indicated above (200 words max).
- Describe the greatest risk to your organization’s ability to achieve your mandate (200 words max)?
- Describe how the current economic downturn exacerbates that risk (150 words max).
- Most recent financial statements. Applicants must include a Statement of Operations and a Balance Sheet. If audited financial statements are unavailable, applicants must include the signatures of two board members not involved in creating the statements (PDF files only).
- Support materials. Provide materials that relate to your application such as revised budgets, letters from sponsors, etc. You may include up to two attachments with a maximum size of 4MB each.
- Please provide short descriptions of each attachment in the fields provided. Acceptable file formats are PDF, JPG, DOC, DOCX, XLS and XLSX.
Contact Information
Contact erf@calgaryartsdevelopment.com or 403.264.5330 ext. 116 if you have any questions about the program.
