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Arts, Culture and Heritage Grant

Are you looking for funding to support your arts, culture and heritage-related projects? The Arts, Culture & Heritage Grant could be the answer. This grant provides financial support to individuals or groups who are working towards achieving the priorities of the Wood Buffalo Culture Plan.

With a total of $50,000 available, this funding initiative supports the Culture Plan’s vision of Wood Buffalo as a culturally diverse and socially inclusive municipality in which arts and heritage are vital to its social, economic and environmental well-being.

To apply for the Arts, Culture & Heritage Grant, you must demonstrate how your project aligns with one or more of the following priorities of the Wood Buffalo Culture Plan:

  • Foster a healthy environment for culture: arts and culture.
  • Further develop cultural facilities and resources.
  • Support collaboration and innovation.
  • Encourage diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility.
  • Improve awareness of the value of culture.

Applications for this grant will close on December 31, 2023 OR once the total $50,000 available has been granted.  Review the details below to start your application!

 

Application Process 
 Stage 1
  1. Review these guidelines to ensure you or your group are eligible for grant funding.
  2. 2023 Grant Applications will be submitted through the CIP Grant Portal. Log in or register for your CIP Grant Portal account at www.rmwb.ca/CIP.
  3. Complete and submit the application. The CIP Grant Portal will accept applications until 4:30 p.m. on December 31, 2023, or until funds are exhausted (whichever comes first). Only complete applications will be accepted. A complete application contains all the documents listed on the application.

  4. Contact CIP@rmwb.ca if you have any questions or would like clarification.

Stage 2

  1. Applications will be reviewed for general completeness and quality. If clarification on the submitted application is required, you will receive an email notifying you that revisions have been requested. Please log in to the CIP Grant Portal to provide clarifications.

  2. Applications will then be referred to a Review Panel for detailed review in alignment with the evaluation criteria to ensure eligibility.
  3. The final decision will be made by the Manager of Community Partnerships and Initiatives.
  4. Funding is provided on a first-come, first-served basis until December 31, 2023 or until funds are exhausted (whichever comes first).
  5. Applicants will be notified of the decision.
  6. Applicants who are awarded a grant will be provided with an agreement letter that sets out the terms and conditions of participating in the program. Applicants must sign and return the agreement letter to CIP within 30 of days.

If you have any questions or would like clarification, please contact Pulse.

What is Considered an Arts, Culture and Heritage Project?
Detailed descriptions of arts, culture and heritage can be found in the Wood Buffalo Culture Plan. Examples include:
  • Environmental Arts: landscape design and environmental art installations.
  • Heritage Arts: protection, restoration, display and interpretation of heritage archives and materials, artifacts, archeological and heritage sites.
  • Literary Arts: storytelling, creative writing, prose, poetry.
  • Media Arts: film/video, photography, sound recording, multimedia, publishing.
  • Multicultural Arts: ethnic celebrations, festivals, fairs, ethnic-specific performing, visual, literary, craft, folk tales, culinary traditions.
  • Performing Arts: drama, music, dance, choral, theatre, opera, comedic, puppetry, mime, performance art.
  • Visual Arts: painting, drawing, calligraphy, fiber arts, ceramic arts, mosaics, sculpture, craft, woodworking, metal work, printmaking.

The Arts, Culture and Heritage Pilot Grant will not fund:

  • Projects related to political or religious parties.
  • Projects that will take place as part of the Alberta Culture Days events.
  • Re-applying for additional grant funds for the same project already funded during the same calendar year.
  • The items and costs highlighted under Ineligible Expenses.
Eligibility

The Applicant must:

 

  1. Reside within the Regional Boundary for a minimum of one year or be a group with all members residing within the Regional Boundary for a minimum of one year before applying.
  2. Apply for projects that are being created, developed, and presented within the Regional Boundary. Projects traveling to be exhibited outside of the region may also be approved, as long as they are created, developed and presented within the Regional Boundary.
  3. Apply for projects that occur between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2023.
  4. Submit only one application and receive only one Arts, Culture and Heritage Grant per Call for Applications (applications can include multiple projects up to the grant maximum).
  5. Be in compliance with past reporting requirements from any previous Community Investment Program Grants.

The Applicant must not:

  1. Be a registered non-profit organization or society.
  2. Be applying for funding from other CIP Grants or Alberta Culture Days funding for the same project.

The Wood Buffalo Culture Plan includes five priority areas, as listed below. Applicants must specify with which priority or priorities their project aligns and explain how the expected deliverables will contribute to advancing the goals of the Wood Buffalo Culture Plan. Projects do not need to align with all five priorities. Projects that align with at least one priority would be eligible for funding.

Priority Areas

PriorityDescriptionSample Projects
FOSTER HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT FOR CULTURE: ARTS AND HERITAGE To support a group’s or individual's arts, culture or heritage-related endeavors.

● Purchasing, collecting or harvesting artistic materials directly related to the proposed project.

● Research & Development towards the creation of a new project.

Fees and Honorariums paid to artistic, cultural or heritage professionals.

FURTHER DEVELOP CULTURAL FACILITIES AND RESOURCES

To support the improvement of physical conditions for arts, culture, heritage and creative innovation.

●  The construction and/or renovation of studios as necessary to further the development of a particular project.

The rental or acquisition of specialized equipment or venues necessary to complete a particular project.
SUPPORT COLLABORATION AND INNOVATION

To support innovative, collaborative projects with an arts, culture or heritage focus. This includes projects that demonstrate new forms or content, that work with a new partner, or that approach audiences in a new way.

● The development of projects with individuals or groups who otherwise would not have thought to work together.

ENCOURAGE DIVERSITY, INCLUSIVITY AND ACCESSIBILITY

To empower Equity-Deserving Communities (EDC) that have historically faced barriers to accessing support in their art, culture, or heritage-related endeavors; or to support projects that bring art, culture or heritage-related projects to Indigenous and Equity-Deserving Communities.

● The development of projects in one of the RMWB’s rural communities.

Creating opportunities for the region’s Indigenous, multicultural and diverse populations to showcase their arts, culture and heritage.

IMPROVE AWARENESS OF THE VALUE OF CULTURE

To provide support for the local dissemination, exhibition, presentation and distribution of an individual's art, culture or heritage-related work.

 

To provide support for projects that are created and developed in the region, but exhibited or presented nationally or internationally, with the goal of amplifying the RMWB’s arts, culture and heritage practitioners on a global scale.

● The development of an arts, culture, or heritage-based project using local resources, for local exhibition or exhibition outside of the region.

The funding of marketing and communications (for example: newspaper ads, social media ads, etc.) to support a particular project.

 

Ineligible Expenses
  • Expenses related to fundraising activities/costs.
  • Costs funded under other Municipal grant programs.
  • Liquor license, liquor.
  • Per diem expenses.
  • Projects deemed by the Municipality as ineligible on a case-by-case basis.

Travel expenses may be approved on a case-by-case basis, to ensure that projects are created and developed within the region of Wood Buffalo, and to ensure that coverage is not duplicated by other approved grants.

Funding Amounts

Individuals and groups may apply for a maximum of $5,000.


If two or more individual applications are received from members of the same group, the total maximum amount awarded will not exceed the maximum amount ($5,000). The amount awarded will be divided among the applicants.


The Municipality will allocate 100% of the approved grant upon application approval. Recipients must complete the Final Report and provide copies of receipts (up to the approved grant value) within 60 days of project completion.


Any funds not used for the project as described in the agreement will have to be returned.

Expected Deliverables

A successful applicant will be required to:

  • Contribute to a vibrant, sustainable community and quality of life for current and future residents through projects that align with the priorities of the Wood Buffalo Culture Plan below:

    1. Foster healthy environment for culture: arts and culture.
    2. Further develop cultural facilities and resources.
    3. Support collaboration and innovation.
    4. Encourage diversity, inclusivity, and accessibility.
    5. Improve awareness of the value of culture.

  • Use grant funds only in the manner originally agreed upon. Any funds not used for the project as described in the application may have to be returned.
  • Complete and/or upload the following in the CIP Grant Portal:
    • Final Report demonstrating the positive impact of the funded project(s).
    • Original receipts and paid invoices for project-related expenses.
    • Attachments including examples of how the successful applicant publicly recognized the funding considerations provided by the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. Refer to Logos and the Logo Standards Guide for usage.

Letters of Support must:

  • Be from someone in your field who can confirm for your artistic merit and ability to carry out the proposed project.
  • Include contact details.
  • Be signed (or in lieu of signature, writer may email CIP@rmwb.ca directly).
  • Be dated within 30 days of application.
  • Received by application deadline.
  • Not be written by immediate family.
 
Key Dates
  • During Call for Applications - Information Sessions with CIP and Culture and Social Development staff (contact CIP@rmwb.ca)
  • April 24, 2023 - Call for Applications Opens
  • December 31, 2023, or funds are exhausted, whichever comes first - Call for Applications Closes
  • TBD - Clarification and Correspondence with CIP and Culture and Social Development staff (contact CIP@rmwb.ca)
  • TBD - Decision Letter and Final Report sent to applicant
  • Within 30 days of signed agreement - Grant Distribution
  • Within 60 days of completing project - Final Report and receipts submitted to CIP via CIP Grant Portal
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