artsVest funding for Ontario municpalities engaged in MCP

Business for the Arts is launching artsVest in another five Ontario municipalities! Inviting all Ontario municipalities involved in Municipal Cultural Planning processes to apply for an artsVest grant by October 21st, 2009.

What is artsVest?
artsVest is a matching incentive program run by Business for the Arts which is designed to stimulate business investment in arts and culture, bolster municipal cultural plans and help develop the creative economy.  Over the past three years, Business for the Arts has brought the artsVest program to eleven Ontario municipalities and has seen 130 arts organizations go through sponsorship training and secure 370 business partners in funding relationships; 222 of those businesses had never sponsored the arts before!  To date, $535K matching funds have stimulated $925K in business dollars, generating $1,46M in total for arts and culture in eleven Ontario communities - representing a 142% increase over the matching funds.

Thanks to the support of our Business Members at Business for the Arts, the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Ministry of Culture, Business for the Arts is able to bring the artsVest program to another fifteen communities over the next four years.  Business for the Arts is pleased to invite Ontario municipalities to submit applications to be one of five communities to participate in the artsVest program this year.

Click here to download the application form inviting Municipalities to participate in artsVest!  (or print the attached and fax/mail to Business for the Arts)

More details available at www.businessforthearts.org and click on artsVest.
Deadline to submit application is Oct. 21st, 2009!

If you have any questions, please contact Éilis Karry, Program Manager at 416.869.3016 x 222 or e_karry@businessforthearts.org