• arts and festival organizations
• invent & adapt

Invent & Adapt 

Invent & Adapt might support a wide range of work that is centered on reimagining and retooling an organization's future, and/or addressing the needs of Edmonton's various arts network and disciplinary capacities. This may take the form of technical assistance and planning, the re-imagining of systems, programs, and practices, the implementation of well-planned strategies around growth or contraction, the management of transitions and successions, or to respectfully bring an organization to a close.

Invent & Adapt specifically provides a path for the EAC to support and participate in focused development of organizational capacities which support the needs of a dynamic arts ecology and a changing city. 

LEVEL OF SUPPORT

Organizations may request up to $30,000, no more than once annually.

Extended projects may be supported by multiple Invent & Adapt investments in subsequent years.

The EAC may also contribute in-kind to Invent & Adapt projects via staff expertise or services.

ELIGIBILITY

Eligible initiatives must be:

• relevant to the applicant organization's mandates, goals and aspirations, or;
• relevant to addressing the needs of Edmonton's various arts networks and disciplinary capacities,
• based on thoughtful and considered changes including (but not limited to):
  
  
  • development of new plans, strategies, or processes
  • implementation of new technology
  • managing transitions and successions
  • developing and structuring partnerships
  • organizational closure
    
    
• time specific, with a defined start and end date.

Applicant organizations will provide brief responses to questions in the EAC's Online Portal: eac.smartsimple.ca. Accommodations will be provided if there are barriers to access. 

The organization's profile in the EAC's Online Portal must be up-to-date, and that information will be relevant to the assessment of potential projects.

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