iPlume Funding System™: Artists & Arts Organizations

Course Details

  • COURSE TYPE

    Asynchronous (learners can complete the course at a time that suits them).

  • LEARNING HOURS

    Approximately 10 hours of self-paced learning. Additional time to develop your own application will vary. This course provides 60 days of access.

  • COURSE AUDIENCE

    Canadian artists, arts workers, collectives, ensembles, arts organizations, and arts service organizations across disciplines. Suitable for first-time and experienced applicants seeking funding for creation, research, development, production, presentation, touring, professional development, operations, or other artistic priorities.

What's Included

  • Practical Training: Step-by-step learning to help you find, assess, plan, and apply for funding.
  • iPlume Funding Finder™: Discover funding opportunities aligned with your applicant profile and priorities.
  • iPlume Funding Coach™: Get AI-supported guidance to develop ideas, draft responses, and review your work.
  • Funding Workspace™ + Funding Planner™: Keep your information, application content, workplan, and budget organized in tools you can continue updating.
  • iPlume Expert Review: Receive professional feedback on one completed application or practice application before taking your next step.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

  1. Define your artistic funding foundation, priorities, and readiness.
  2. Find and shortlist opportunities using the iPlume Funding Finder™ and official arts-funder sources.
  3. Evaluate eligibility, program fit, assessment criteria, and work-sample requirements.
  4. Develop an artistic proposal that communicates your practice, intentions, context, and planned activities.
  5. Create a realistic artistic workplan and an activity-based budget that accounts for fair compensation, access, and relevant delivery costs.
  6. Select and contextualize work samples and supporting materials.
  7. Draft clear application responses using your own artistic voice and responsible AI-supported guidance.
  8. Review your application for completeness, consistency, and alignment with funder requirements.
  9. Organize submission, reporting, and reusable content for future applications.

Course Topics

  • Arts funding in Canada
  • Artistic funding foundations and priorities
  • Individual, collective, and organizational applicant pathways
  • The iPlume Funding Finder™ powered by Fundica
  • Official arts-funder sources
  • Eligibility and strategic fit
  • Assessment criteria and peer assessment
  • Artistic practice, intention, and context
  • Artistic development and planning
  • Community-engaged practice
  • Cultural protocols, rights, and permissions
  • Accessibility
  • Work samples and supporting materials
  • Artistic workplans
  • Artist and arts-worker compensation
  • Activity-based budgets and cash flow
  • Responsible AI and the iPlume Funding Coach™
  • Application writing, review, submission, reporting, and reusable funding content

Build a Funding Foundation

Course page titled "BUILT IT | Create Your Funding Foundation". A subheading "Choose Your Applicant Type" has content in three tabs: "Individual Artist or Arts Worker", "Group, Collective, or Ensemble", and "Arts Organization or Arts Service Organization"

Your Artistic Priority

Course Page titled "BUILD IT | Map Your Funding Priorities". Course page includes content under the subheading "Readiness Check", with the text "Use the priority you identified in Section 2 of your Funding Workspace to answer the following questions" with a Yes/No question underneath.

Meaningful Outcomes

Course page titled "Build Out the Artistic Work" with the subheading "APPLY THE "SO THAT" TEST". The page includes the following text with arrows pointing sequentially between the items: "Activity, Output, so that, Outcome, contributing to, Longer-term impact"

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Need Support?

For questions & technical support related to this course, please contact:

funding@iplumewriting.com
Price: $1,499.00
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