Future Focus Funding

• The applicant must be an arts organization.
• The organization must be exploring a key question or challenge to enable significant organizational shift or transformation.
• The proposed work must support investigating, identifying, planning, and/or executing purposeful adaptations in operations that diverge from previous or current practice.
• The organization must be operating in the Treaty 7 region (including Red Deer).

Who is eligible?

• Arts organizations

Who is not eligible

Eligible expenses

Ineligible Costs and Activities

Eligible geographic areas

• Treaty 7 region (including Red Deer)

• Determine whether your work aligns with the Investigation, Exploration, or Implementation Phase.

• Request access to the application link at least two weeks before the deadline you plan to apply for.

• Book a conversation to determine whether your organization and project are eligible.
• Complete consultation and eligibility confirmation no later than two weeks before the intake deadline.
• Book the conversation at least four weeks before the deadline you plan to apply for.

• If eligible, use the access provided to complete the online application form.

• Investigation Phase: submit by the final Friday of the month.

• For the Investigation Phase, results are typically communicated within four weeks of the application deadline.
• For the Exploration and Implementation Phases, results are typically communicated within eight weeks of the application deadline.

• The program is structured in three phases: Investigation, Exploration, and Implementation.
• Investigation Phase applications are due the final Friday of each month.
• Applicants are encouraged to connect well ahead of deadlines to confirm eligibility and access the application form.
• Notification timelines differ by phase (approximately 4 weeks vs. 8 weeks).