The Music Business Innovation Micro Grant program is designed to provide one-time funding to live music venues and other music industry businesses who have incurred financial losses due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Sponsoring Agency: Government of Alberta
Type of Fund: Grant
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 08/31/2021
Size of the Fund: Less than USD $50,000
The Music Business Innovation Micro Grant program is designed to provide one-time funding to live music venues and other music industry businesses who have incurred financial losses due to the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Funded by the Government of Alberta, this program supports projects that aim to sustain venues and businesses during the pandemic and innovative initiatives, platforms, and services that address the needs of Alberta’s music industry.
This program encourages creativity in business and the fostering, protection, and creation of jobs within the music sector in Alberta.
Funding Information
• Minimum Grant: $5,000
• Maximum Grant: $25,000
• All projects are to be completed by March 31, 2022.
Eligible Activities
Projects shall adhere to all provincial, federal, and municipal laws, policies, rules, regulations, public orders, and Covid-19 guidelines and protocols that are in effect on the date that the project occurs. Projects may be one-time events/initiatives or they may be reoccurring or ongoing. Examples of eligible initiatives that meet the programs objectives include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Adopting or developing new technologies and/or digital platforms to increase audience/customer reach;
• Upgrading or procuring equipment, technology, hardware, software, facility, or infrastructure;
• The support of business continuity and/or the creation or support of existing jobs;
• Training/adopting new skills and/or the implementation of best business practices;
• The implementation of new strategies or services that will grow the business’ revenue stream.
• Assistance for the safe and financially viable reopening of a place of business;
• Increasing a venue’s capacity or the adaptation of an existing space for the purpose of safely distanced live programming, once it is deemed possible;
• Strategies for creating or sustaining a long-term, positive community impact;
• The development of new methods, strategies, services, or equipment for online content creation and/or distribution;
• Facilitating the delivery of high quality online performances for artists or ensembles.
Eligibility Criteria
• Applicants must be a registered, for-profit, Alberta business that has live music performances/showcases as a primary business activity and/or revenue stream. Majority ownership must be held by residents of Alberta (having resided in Alberta for a period of six months prior to application) and residents of Alberta must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada.
• Eligible venues include: clubs, rental halls, theatres, and outdoor concert spaces. Venues must have an existing infrastructure for musical performances and gatherings, such as a stage, sound and lighting system, and so forth. Small-to-medium sized venues, with a maximum capacity of 5000, are eligible.
More information at: https://www.albertamusic.org/grants/musicbusinessinnovation/
Eligible Countries:
Canada
