Canada Arts Training Fund (CATF) │Canadian Heritage

To be eligible for funding, your arts organization must be:

• a Canadian not-for-profit arts institution/organization incorporated under the Canada Not-For-Profit Corporations Act or under corresponding provincial or territorial legislation.

OR

• Equivalent Indigenous peoples’ institutions in Canada. Indigenous includes First Nations (status, non-status), Inuit, and Métis.

Federal organizations and federal Crown corporations are not eligible for funding.

All eligible organizations must:

• exist primarily to provide professional arts training

OR

• have an integral component within your overall activities that offers professional arts training.

Also, you must demonstrate that the training program:

• operates independently from a provincial/territorial educational program
• is governed by a Board of directors
• administers its own budget

You can maintain partnerships and close collaborations with post-secondary institutions such as universities, colleges, and CEGEP’s that cannot be directly funded by the program. This allows students to graduate, with a recognized academic diploma offered under the supervision of provincial or territorial education systems.

Arts training programs funded by the Canada Arts Training Fund usually have diversified revenues that include financial support from all levels of government.

The professional arts training must:

• be directed by recognized professionals in the artistic discipline in which training is provided
• have paid staff according to professional standards
• have been in existence with administrative support to deliver the arts training for at least three years
• generate earned and private revenues for at least 30 % of the training cost
• have a bilingual website for the professional arts training