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Learn about the new SmartGrant online arts grant database & have all your questions answered!
SmartGrant is an interactive online tool designed for British Columbia artists and arts & cultural organizations to identify grant and funding sources. Through a comprehensive yet easy-to-use interface, SmartGrant connects you to hundreds of potential funding sources that uniquely match your creative projects and plans. Let SmartGrant find the resources that reflect who you are, where you work, and what you do.
As our sector navigates challenging financial times – reduced revenues and public support, and higher competition for available funds – the need to find new funding sources has never been greater.
And as grant programs become more competitive and their guidelines more complex, this creates even further barriers for applicants.
Through an easy-to-use platform, SmartGrant interprets and simplifies funders’ guidelines into an individually tailored resource. SmartGrant creates results that are unique to you, and yet affordable for all.
With 20+ years as a consultant and grant writer, SmartGrant founder MaryAnn Anderson has provided strategic assessment and advice for hundreds of artists and arts organizations. She has written thousands of grants, developed a deep understanding of a wide range of funding programs, and built her own comprehensive Canadian arts & cultural grants database. That work evolved into the founding of SmartGrant.ca (2025), with a vision to create a unique resource for our sector – to simplify the grant research and planning process and make it widely accessible and affordable.
Welcome to SmartGrant – we look forward to helping make your creative possible.
