Professional Performing Arts Organizations Operating Funding │Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA)

To be eligible for Professional Performing Arts Organizations operating funding, you must:

• have public performing arts programming as your organization’s principal mandate as stated in its incorporation documents
• engage in on-going development, implementation and promotion of performing arts programming as its core primary activity in an annual program or full season of professional self-created and self-produced work for public presentation
• employ at least one full-time equivalent administrative and/or artistic staff member for the minimum duration of your programming season

Your organization must:

• be a not-for-profit organization
• be registered and in good standing under the appropriate legislation and have been in operation in Alberta for at least three years
• have at least 50% of the organization’s board members living in Alberta
• pay a ‘fee for service’ at minimum industry standard rates (such as a union or nationally recognized rate) to at least 75% of the artists involved in the organization’s performance program for all performances
• demonstrate the ability to operate using good governance principles, effective administration practices, and a commitment to fiscal responsibility while maintaining an artistic mandate
• operate as a stand-alone arts organization at arms-length from municipalities, commercial enterprises, or organizations and institutions receiving annual operating funds from the Government of Alberta or its affiliates
• comply with all Canadian Arts Database (CADAC) financial and statistical data requirements
• have a board-approved cash reserve policy