Ontario Arts Council Strengthens Support For Individual Arts Managers

October 1, 2009 —The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) has strengthened its support to arts managers through the Compass   program. Individual managers working within an arts organization as well as independent arts managers are eligible to apply for assistance in job shadowing, coaching, mentorship and other kinds of professional development initiatives.

The Professional Development component expands on the program’s previous mentorship category. The Compass program continues to provide organizational development support to help organizations engaged in not-for-profit professional arts activity. This stream covers the costs of bringing in a specialist to assist the organization with organizational development activities such as strategic planning, governance or fundraising.

With this change, OAC is responding to a key recommendation from the 2007 Compass program evaluation which was to increase support to the management capacities of people working within arts organizations, not just to the organizations themselves.

More program details are available here for anyone planning to apply to the December 1 , 2009 deadline . Please read carefully.

For more information

Contact Pat Bradley, Compass and Theatre Officer, at 416-969-7433 or 1-800-387-0058 ext. 7433 or pbradley@arts.on.ca