FUNDING PROGRAMS
Through our funding programs, the Rozsa Foundation supports arts organizations and leaders to take on initiatives that harness experimentation, innovation, and learning to develop bold, forward-looking approaches to current and future challenges.
We seek to strengthen arts organizations, leaders, and the broader arts community in Calgary and the Treaty 7 Region of Southern Alberta through our distinct funding programs, each of which supports different types of initiatives.
FUNDING PROGRAMS
We encourage you to review the full program guidelines, available on the individual funding program pages, for more detailed information.
Arts Leadership Residency Funding
Supports mid-career arts professionals who are Indigenous, Black, or a Person of Colour who aspires to leadership roles in the arts (Executive Directors, Artistic Directors, Curators, Managing Directors, etc.) to undertake an extended residency with a host arts organization.
This funding program is exclusively for Rozsa Foundation Training program participants who have completed Rozsa Foundations of Arts Leadership (Foundations), previously known as Rozsa Arts Management Program (RAMP). Capstone Project Funding supports the advancement of the Foundations/RAMP graduates’ Capstone Projects.
Essential Cybersecurity for Arts Organizations
Strengthening digital defenses helps arts organizations safeguard their essential role in the community, keeping theatres, galleries, and cultural spaces running smoothly and securely. Recipient organizations will be enrolled in Technology Helps’ EverSecure cybersecurity program at no charge for a period of one year.
Provides funding to arts organizations who want to explore a key question or challenge facing their organization to enable a significant shift or transformation and to develop ‘future focused’ directions for operations that diverge from their own previous or current practices. There are three phases available in this program.
WHO AND WHAT WE FUND
The amount of funding available, application deadlines, and eligibility criteria vary from program to program. We encourage you to review the full program guidelines (available on each page) for more detailed information.
We fund a wide range of performing, literary, visual and media arts organizations as well as festivals and arts service organizations.
The focus of our investment is Calgary and the Treaty 7 Region of Alberta, as well as to provincial organizations whose initiatives will directly benefit the Calgary arts sector.
Preference may be given to proposals that are geared toward equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives, those that harness the power of art for social change (especially in partnership with other, non-arts organizations), those that promote inter-organizational collaboration, and those that can use Rozsa Foundation funding to leverage additional funding or other resources, as reflected in the project budget.
Organizations can submit only one application per funding deadline.
GET IN TOUCH
If you have questions about the Rozsa Foundation’s Funding Programs please contact Funding Manager, Ayla Stephen, at ayla@rozsafoundation.com.