Finding Funding for your Creative Space Capital Project

Information to help your creative space projects move forward

Funds for facility improvements and capital projects are scarce and often difficult to access. ArtsBuild is committed to providing information resources around traditional and innovative ways to fund and finance projects to improve existing spaces or create new ones.

Find Funding for your capital projects:

• Canada Cultural Spaces Fund
• Legacy Fund – Building Communities through Arts and Heritage
• Capital Grant, Ontario Trillium Foundation

ArtsBuild Ontario hosted a webinar in 2016 with Valerie Hopper, Manager of the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund Ontario Region and arts organizations registered on Bricks & Mortar. Topics covered included the changes to the CCSF, eligibility, the application process, and more.

View the transcript of the webinar and Q&A period from our webinar with Valerie from Canada Cultural Spaces here.

Grants

• Endowment Incentives – Canada Cultural Investment Fund
  
• Enabling Accessibility Fund
• Community Enhancement Program
• Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF)

Financing

• Infrastructure Ontario Fund (for arts training institutions)
• Community Forward Fund 
• Better Buildings Partnership (Toronto)
• PARO Centre for Women’s Enterprise

Municipal Funds

• City of Thunder Bay Community Partnership Funding 
• Hamilton Heritage Property Grant Program 
• Hamilton Heritage Conservation Grant Program 

Fundraising Tools

• This Place Matters – National Trust Canada
• Launch Pad Grant – National Trust Canada

Tools to research grants

• Imagine Canada’s Grant Connect Tool
• The Funding Portal 
• Ajah.ca  
• Find Funding portal – National Trust Canada

Find more useful insights on funding sources and partnership best practices in ArtsBuild’s Resource Library.