BackAt the heart of the British Columbia* arts community is the creative work of individuals like you – yet you may not know that you can apply for grants to support your work.
No matter what your level of practice and what kind of creative you are – visual, musician, dancer, actor or performer, film/media artist, curator or critic, agent, consultant, creative/cultural worker, arts administrator, or even part of an artist collective – SmartGrant can find grant program options to support your creative aspirations.
For those of you not familiar with arts grants, funder websites and guidelines can often seem impossible to decipher. SmartGrant has simplified hundreds of grant programs to help you make sense of it all, and find options that are tailor-made for your creative projects, and yet easy to understand.
SmartGrant’s detailed search interface offers over 175+ possible ‘funding focus’ options, organized under twelve primary funding-focus categories. You’ll find funding options for all sorts of projects – do you want to pursue a new creative work? Present your work to the public, or travel to a showcase or conference? Take a course, or work with a mentor? Purchase some new equipment? SmartGrant has you covered.
All this, for only $60 a year (even less with our introductory discount rates)!
Note: if you are a for-profit sole proprietorship, please sign up as an Organization.
Note: SmartGrant’s database is structured to search grants applicable to either Organizations or Individuals (based on your profile). You are welcome to sign up as both an Organization or an Individual - however, this requires separate registration using different emails to create each account.
*At the current time, SmartGrant has been created to serve British Columbia-based artists and arts organizations - although the database includes grant programs that are available to applicants from across Canada.
We have plans for future expansion of SmartGrant into other provinces - sign up for our newsletter to stay informed of future developments.
