The 4Cs Foundation provides grants for projects within the Halifax Regional Municipality only.
To apply for a grant, you must first talk to a 4Cs Foundation staff person about your idea. Applications forms are not available online. Read the information below and the FAQ page thoroughly, BEFORE contacting the 4Cs office with your idea. Your project idea must have building connections between children and their community as its primary or valued goal. Ideally, you will have met with members of your community to develop the project idea and will have already gained their interest and involvement.
Please read this and the FAQ page thoroughly, BEFORE contacting the 4Cs office with your idea.
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The 4Cs Foundation provides grants for community engaged arts projects that have these three essential elements:
1) The project brings children/youth and community members together to work "side-by-side" on community engaged arts projects.
2) The project involves enough "side by side" time to allow meaningful connections to develop between the children/youth and their community members.
3) The arts activities are lead by a professional artist or artists, who has the skills to encourage creative collaboration across ages, abilities, and other barriers to participation.
4Cs does not fund:
1) Projects that do not involve children/youth and community members as equal participants, working side-by-side.
2) Artist-in-the-school projects if the projects do not contain the 3 essential elements listed above.
3) Individual artists to create a work of art, even if this relies on community volunteers contributing to the creation of the artwork.
4Cs likes to see projects that:
1) Originate within a social or geographically community.
2) Have as their main goal (or as a valued part of their goal) building or strengthening the participants involvement with each other, and with their community as a whole.
3) Result in the creation of public art.
Visual Art, Dance, Performance, Music, Film, Video, Theatre, Integrated Arts, Time-based and new practises are all art practices of interest to 4Cs. We are especially interested in art activities that result in the creation of public art.
DEADLINES for grant applications are October 15, January 15 and May 15 each year. We encourage you to apply to the October deadline when possible, even if your project is does not start until the following spring.
Please call our Director well in advance of a deadline to talk about your project idea. It often takes several months to refine an idea to a point where it can be considered for funding.
4Cs staff can also meet with groups to help develop project ideas and for help with the application process. Call 422-4805.