Presenter/Producer

Purpose: To provide operating and project support to not-for-profit, professional presenting and/or producing music organizations in Ontario to assist them to produce and present art and arts services to the public and to sustain a healthy arts community.

• Operating Grants commit funding to the operating expenses of professional music presenters and music festivals that meet the assessment criteria for ongoing support.
• Project Grants offer assistance toward the costs of specific music programming by eligible music organizations or music collectives, not receiving operating support. Project funding is not committed from year to year.

Operating Grant Eligibility: To be eligible for operating support from this program, presenting and/or producing music organizations must:

• be an Ontario not-for-profit corporation (with the exception of book and magazine publishers)

OR

• be a federal not-for-profit corporation (with the exception of book and magazine publishers) with the head office in Ontario
• be led by professional personnel
• have completed at least two years of sustained, regular, ongoing programming in its community as of the application date (an organization that does not meet this requirement may instead apply for project funding)
• have a range of revenue sources such as private and government
• be governed by a board of directors or an advisory body solely responsible for the organization
• have community support and involvement demonstrated through one or more of the following: membership, fundraising and volunteer involvement 
• have proof of sound financial management
• submit verification of financial results of the last completed fiscal year with their applications. The type of financial statement we require depends on the amount of your grant request and the size of your annual budget, as follows:
• over $30,000, for all revenue levels: audited financial statement.
• $10,000 and under, for organizations with revenues under $100,000: unaudited financial statement (or, if available, review engagement or audited financial statement). Unaudited financial statements must be prepared using the format of the CADAC accounting template, which is to be found at www.thecadac.ca/cms/en/guides.html, along with a guide to its use.
• all other requests and revenue levels: review engagement (or, if available, audited financial statement).

If you do not provide the type of financial statement required, we will reduce your grant request to an eligible level.

Project Grant Eligibility: For eligibility requirements for project support, presenting and/or producing music organizations or music collectives should download the Presenter/Producer Projects guidelines near the bottom of this page.

NOTE: New applicants to the program must contact an officer well in advance of the deadline and prior to submitting an application.

Deadlines:

April 2, 2012

Music Series Presenters (operating)
Music collectives, music series presenters and/or music festivals (project)

November 1, 2012

Music Festivals (operating)
Music collectives, music series presenters and/or music festivals (project)

Program Guidelines and Application

For Operating Applicants
(Music series presenters and music festivals):

• Operating Grant Guidelines  (print version)

Click here to read detailed qualifiers of the criteria that assessors will use while reading your application.

For requests of $30,000 and under:

• Annual Operating Application  (Word)

For requests over $30,000:

• Annual Operating Application  (Word)

For Year 2 Multi-year Operating Applicants only:

• Multi-year 2 Operating Request form  (Word) 

For Project Applicants 
(Music collectives, music series presenters and/or music festivals):

• Program Guidelines  (print version)
• Application  (form-fillable Word)  (print version)
• Budget  (form-fillable Excel)  (print version)

Final Report

The following final report form is to be completed by the Projects Grant recipients in this program.

•  (form-fillable Word)  (print version)

For more information, please contact Michael Murray, Popular and World Music Officer, 416-969-7439, 1-800-387-0058 extension 7439, mmurray@arts.on.ca, David Parsons, Classical Music Officer, 416-969-7452, toll free 1-800-387-0058 extension 7452, dparsons@arts.on.ca or Lizzy Braoudakis, Program Assistant, 416-969-7412, toll-free 1-800-387-0058 extension 7412, lbraoudakis@arts.on.ca.      

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