Limited Support to Endangered Arts Organizations – Canada Cultural Investment Fund

To be eligible, an applicant must:

• be a professional, non-profit arts organizations incorporated under the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act or Part II of the Canada Corporations Act or equivalent provincial or territorial legislation;
• have as its mission the creation, production, and/or presentation of artistic programming involving professional artists remunerated for their work;
• be in existence for at least seven years at the time of the request;
• have, over the 12 months preceding the request for assistance, placed itself under the protection of the appropriate provisions of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act or similar provincial legislation, or have been placed under the control of a provincial and/or municipal governments, with such government having assumed the risk associated with the majority of the debt of the organization;
• be managed by an active board of directors or a government-appointed temporary fiduciary committee;
• employ at least one full-time salaried employee in administrative management and with professional status; and
• have demonstrated community support to at least the same amount as the request under the component, as well as from the provincial and/or municipal governments.