Funding
FPCC 2024 Language Funding Process. Closes December 18, 2024. Funding is now available for 2025-26 up to 2027-28 to support community-based projects that revitalize First Nations languages in B.C. This funding supports eligible organizations to implement projects that create fluent speakers, document the languages, and/or develop strategic language revitalization plans. We are now inviting those who submitted an EOI to complete our new Language program combined application. This year, FPCC is also pleased to offer multi-year funding for up to three years, from 2025 to 2028. Applicants may apply for up to three years of funding in a single application, according to the funding category.
Slate Development Program. Closes December 19, 2024. This program is designed to support the company growth of mid-level and experienced B.C. based production companies who have a significant track record of owned and controlled independent production in the province. Recipients will receive a modest grant to support the development costs of two (2) to five (5) scripted television or feature film projects, as well as capacity-building initiatives within their company.
BC Arts Council Grant Programs. The BC Arts Council has MANY programs with intakes throughout the year. Please visit their website for information for all opportunities: https://www.bcartscouncil.ca/program.
- Accelerate Program. Closes December 19, 2024. This program is a two-year initiative to improve access and reduce barriers to funding for equity deserving and regional arts and culture organizations and collectives. Funding is intended to offer stability while being flexible in supporting a range of expenses. Maximum funding amount: $30,000 per year for two years.
Indigenous Food Pathways Program. Closes January 10, 2025. This program provides strategic capacity-building funding. Funding can be used to create new projects, enhance existing programs, or improve group operations for Indigenous-led food systems and food security initiatives that act as disruptors to known systemic barriers. Projects funded are intended to act as catalysts to generate positive change that supports Indigenous peoples’ self-determination over their food systems, and their participation in the food and agriculture sectors. Supports eligible expenses up to $200,000. Maximum amount approved will depend on project demand and impact
Documentary + Factual Development Fund. Closes January 14, 2025. The Fund’s key objective is to support individual projects during early-stage development, before they have been greenlit by the market, growing opportunities for BC-based projects, filmmakers and producers. The fund will also support diverse voices that are historically systemically excluded and critical to a vibrant and equitable industry. In its fifth round, this fund supports Early-Stage Investigation Development. It will provide up to $15,000 per project, in the form of a non-recoupable advance, to BC-based filmmakers and producers.
Recovering Voices. (Smithsonian Institute). Closes January 15, 2025. Recovering Voices seeks to increase access to the Smithsonian’s diverse collections—archival, biological, and cultural—in support of interdisciplinary research aimed at language and knowledge documentation and revitalization. The purpose of the Community Research Program is to support Indigenous communities in their efforts to save, document, and enliven their languages, cultures, and knowledge systems. The funding brings groups of community scholars to the Smithsonian to examine cultural objects, natural history collections, and archival documents related to their heritage language and knowledge systems and engage in a dialogue with each other and with Smithsonian staff. Interdisciplinary and collaborative projects are encouraged.
BC First Nations Post-Secondary Partnerships Program. Closes January 27, 2025. The Indigenous Adult and Higher Learning Association and the First Nations Education Steering Committee are pleased to support the delivery of the Post-Secondary Partnerships Program (PSPP) in BC. The PSPP is a First Nations directed, regionally delivered program that supports delivery of community based post-secondary programs by First Nations and First Nations-mandated post-secondary institutes, in partnership with public post-secondary institutions, based on priorities set by applicant First Nations. Under the PSPP, there are two categories of eligible activities: 1. Program/Course Development or Adaptation and 2. Program/Course Delivery. Due to limited funds, the overall maximum amount that can be applied for is up to $300,000.
Youth Empowered Speakers Program. Closes January 31, 2025. Are you a B.C. First Nations student aged 18-35 who is interested in learning your language while working towards a rewarding career as a language immersion teacher, early childhood immersion educator or community language revitalization leader? The YES program provides training and paid work internships to pursue your career in addition to Mentor-Apprentice Program (MAP) language learning. The goal of the program is for youth to learn their language while preparing for a career in language revitalization in one of three streams: Early Childhood Immersion Educator Stream for ECE students alongside MAP hours and a paid internship, Language Immersion Teacher Stream for BEd students alongside MAP hours and a paid internship, Community Language Revitalizationist Stream for students in a degree/program (relevant to their career in language revitalization) alongside MAP hours and a paid internship.
Emergency Support Services Equipment and Training. January 31, 2025. This is a First Nations Government and Local Authority based provincial emergency response program designed to meet the basic needs of British Columbians impacted by disasters by providing short-term support in a compassionate manner. ESS is designed to provide support for disasters ranging from a single house fire to provincial level events involving large evacuations. These supports enable people to re-establish themselves as quickly as possible after an emergency or disaster.
Indigenous Screen Office Programs
- Sector Development. Rolling deadline or until February 1, 2025.
- Travel Funding. Rolling deadline or until March 1, 2025.
The Music Industry Initiatives Program (Amplify BC). Closes March 1, 2025. This program supports initiatives that grow and develop British Columbia’s music ecosystem. Successful projects will build the capacity of B.C.’s music industry through training, knowledge transfer, and the creation of new business opportunities. Canadian companies, not-for-profit organizations, individuals, and collectives are able to apply. $2,000 – $60,000, funding up to 75% of project expenses. The remaining 25% may be in-kind contributions, investment, earned revenue, and/or other public funding.
Urban Communities Partnering for Reconciliation. Funding permitting, eligible applicants may submit one application between September 1, 2024 and August 31, 2025. This program was created as a multipartner, community-driven approach focused on improving the socio-economic outcomes for urban Indigenous communities in BC, including Inuit, First Nations and Métis populations. Funding is available to support eligible Indigenous organizations and local governments to work together to create opportunities for in-person dialogue and relationship building which can help advance collaborative reconciliation plans, protocols, agreements or future projects.
Canada Council for the Arts Funding. Creating, Knowing, Sharing: The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples. See Grants and Deadlines: https://canadacouncil.ca/funding/grants/deadlines
- RBC Emerging Artists. Applications accepted year-round. Support initiatives that help emerging artists by bridging the gap from academic to professional career.
Legacy Fund- Building Communities through Arts and Heritage. (Federal Government). Applications accepted on continuous basis. This Department of Canadian Heritage Program provides funding for community-initiated capital projects, intended for community use. Recipients may receive up to 50 per cent of eligible project expenses up to a maximum of $500,000. unding supports community-initiated capital projects that: commemorate a significant local historical event or pay tribute to a significant local historical personality; mark a 100th anniversary or greater, in increments of 25 years (e.g., 125th, 150th); involve the restoration, renovation, or transformation of existing buildings or exterior spaces with local community significance that are intended for community use; encourage arts and heritage activities in the local community that are intended for and accessible to the general public.
Canada Cultural Spaces Fund. (Federal Government). No deadline- on-going. The Canada Cultural Spaces Fund (CCSF) supports the improvement of physical conditions for arts, heritage, culture and creative innovation. The Fund supports renovation and construction projects, the acquisition of specialized equipment and feasibility studies related to cultural spaces. The CCSF annual grants and contributions budget is $54 million for the period 2018-2028.
National Creation Fund. No Deadline. The National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund invests up to $3 million a year in the development of 15 to 20 compelling and ambitious new Canadian works in theatre, dance, music and inter-disciplinary performing arts. Fuelled entirely by donors, the Fund provides Canadian artists with the additional time, space and resources they need to create great work. The Fund invests in both new work, and in promising productions that need additional development after their initial run to produce stronger, more polished work that will be remounted and toured across Canada and around the world.
Movable Cultural Property Grants. (Federal Government). No Deadline. Movable Cultural Property Grants help designated organizations acquire cultural property of outstanding significance and national importance to Canada, as outlined in the Cultural Property Export and Import Act. Designated organizations are located in Canada and demonstrate the ability to ensure the long-term preservation of cultural property. Grants can be used to purchase cultural property: for which an export permit has been denied; or that is important to Canada’s national heritage and available for purchase outside the country.