CBT: Arts and Culture Program - Major Projects Grant

The CBT Arts and Culture Program provides grants for major projects in the arts, supporting individuals and organizations in the Columbia Basin region. It encourages innovative artistic works and performances, requiring applicants to discuss project proposals with CKCA beforehand. This funding is designed to foster cultural initiatives, ensuring projects focus on original creative contributions, while excluding operational costs and retroactive funding. Eligible applicants must reside in the region for at least 12 months prior to application.

NOTE:  We strongly encourage you to contact CKCA to discuss your project before starting the application. Projects must exhibit additional sources of revenue in addition to CKCA.
Arts & Culture Funding Programs
If you have an idea that focuses on arts and culture, this program could help support it. Grants from the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance (CKCA) are available for all art disciplines, for both individuals and arts and culture organizations. CKCA is a project of the West Kootenay Regional Arts Council and funded by Columbia Basin Trust.
Major Project Arts & Culture
Create large-scale arts and culture projects that further the directions of CKCA and Columbia Basin Trust.
Funding is available for: Projects to create artistic works, bodies of work, arts and culture performances, events or projects on a major scale.

Eligibility

Who can apply? Individual artists in all disciplines, or arts and culture groups and organizations.To be eligible for funding, the primary emphasis of project proposals must be on arts and culture.
The applicant’s primary residence must be in the Columbia Basin Trust region, and the applicant must have lived in the region for at least 12 continuous months prior to submitting an application.
CKCA funding is open to individuals of all artistic disciplines, as well as arts and culture organizations. Minors must have a parent or legal guardian apply on their behalf.
Applicants are not required to be a member of any arts council or a member of any registered society or group.
Funding is designed to support projects, not operating costs or existing deficits.
Any artistic or cultural projects must contain original creative works with projected proceeds of sales (if applicable) included in the budget as a source of revenue.
CKCA will only fund the development and production of marketing, advertising and promotional materials as part of a larger arts and culture project, not as a stand-alone project.
CKCA funding can only be used to support travel expenses inside the Basin. Projects that involve travel outside the Basin must clearly detail other (non-CKCA) revenues on the budget to cover the out-of-Basin travel costs (with some exceptions for Touring grants).
If you or your organization have an outstanding or incomplete project from a prior funding year, this could affect your eligibility for funding.
Columbia Basin Trust has other funding programs to support heritage, social issues, economic development, the environment and more. Proposals that are not primarily focused on arts and culture activities should investigate other funding programs.

Ineligibility

The following are not eligible for funding support through CKCA Arts & Culture Grant Programs:Retroactive funding (for any project activities or expenses incurred prior to June 1 of the current funding year).
Note: Although the research or planning process may be under way before June 1, the project activities must take place from June 1 onward and be completed by the end date in the program you are applying for. Applications from governments and their agentsProjects using creative mechanisms to solve social issues, or which replace funding conventionally covered by government or other agencies.Art therapy projects or projects of a primarily social natureAny school-based activities including, but not limited to, curriculum delivery and extracurricular activities (with the exception of: Artists in the Classroom)Capital expenditures (with the exception of: Minor Capital Arts).Projects with unbalanced budgets
Debt retirement, or reservesExisting deficits or the regular operating expenses of an ongoing activityPaying the costs of fund-raising activitiesActivities of religious organizations that primarily serve their membership and/or their direct religious purposes, unless the community at large will benefit significantlySabbatical leavesAmateur sportsLibrary acquisitions, construction, and capital purchasesSupport for individual academic or dissertation researchProjects which create a dependency on CKCA or the TrustBinding of periodicals