While our recent proposal to launch a three-year charitable venture pilot project was not successful, we are far from down and out, and not at all discouraged. Many burning questions remain on our minds. 

The following is a response to a Request for Proposals to launch a Shared Charitable Venture Platform for the Arts (Pilot Project) funded by Metcalf Foundation, Ontario Trillium Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council. Also available as a PDF. 

In case you missed it, the Metcalf Foundation, Ontario Trillium Foundation, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council have  announced a landmark, public-private sector joint venture to fund the first charitable shared platform for the arts in Ontario. For more information, please visit the Metcalf Foundation.  A preliminary description of the process follows.  

Review our letter of intent to Open Door program at Toronto Arts Council to implement a series of Phase Two Pilot Projects with independent performing and intermedia artists in Toronto beginning in spring and summer 2016. 

Review our full proposal to Arts Service Projects program at Ontario Arts Council to produce a series of focus groups and community roundtable consultations across Ontario in fall 2015 and winter 2016.

Review our full proposal submitted to the Compass program at Ontario Arts Council for detailed strategic and functional needs assessment planning with Tides Canada and Mushroom Cloud in the summer and fall of 2015.