DUO understands that funding is the biggest issue facing the school system and schools quite often do not receive enough funding to incorporate all of their ideas into the classroom. However, there are a variety of different funding options. The arts councils all support artists in education programs, and foundations and corporations are very interested in supporting youth programs.

DUO is continuously researching new funding possibilities to bring arts into Ontario schools.

Please look at our Step by Step Funding page for more information

Government Support
The Canada Council for the Arts
www.canadacouncil.ca

Ontario Arts Council
www.arts.on.ca

Toronto Arts Council
www.torontoartscouncil.ca

For Individual Donors
Canadian Centre for Philanthropy
www.ccp.ca

Association of Fundraising professionals
www.afpnet.org

For Corporate Donors
Council for Business and the Arts
www.businessforarts.org

For Foundations
Canadian Directory to Foundations and Grants. Van Rotterdam, Rose, Editor. The Canadian Centre for Philanthropy: Toronto, 1999.
http://www.imaginecanada.ca/page.asp?foundation_directory

Canadian Fundraising Directory 2000. Canada Grants Service: Toronto, 1999.
www.interlog.com/~cgs

Laidlaw Foundation
www.laidlawfdn.org

The Ontario Trillium Foundation
www.trilliumfoundation.org/

RESOURCES:
For Corporate Donors
Patton, B. & Risher, R. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. Penguin Books: New York, 1991.

For Foundations
McIlnaay, Denis P. How Foundations Work: What Grant Seekers Need to Know about the Many Faces of Foundations. Jossey-Bass Inc.:San Francisco, 1998.

Toronto Community Foundation
E-mail: torcf@interlog.com

van Rotterdam, Indgrid. Building Foundation Partnerships: The Basics of Foundation Fundraising and Proposal Writing. Canadian Centre for Philanthropy.

Available at DUO Library