SPONSORSHIP

OUR WONDERFUL SPONSORS

IRIS is thrilled to have been accepted into this one-time funding opportunity, that expires Feb 1 2015, and to have the support of both the Career Hairstyling school and John Weiss Salon.

·         Since we are a small group, we are under the umbrella of The Robert McLaughlin Gallery.
·         artsVest is a national sponsorship training and matching fund incentive program created by Business for the Arts and funded in Ontario by the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Canadian Heritage and the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport .
·         artsVest provides matching incentive grants for new sponsorships raised by participating organizations to spark local business support of arts and heritage. Cash is matched 100% and in-kind sponsorships are matched at 50% of the retail value.

 Every year, selected municipalities across Canada partner with Business for the Arts to bring the artsVest program to their communities. To qualify for artsVest matching funds, your municipality or province must be a designated artsVest community. In Ontario, these communities and their respective matching funds are;

Huron County: $15,000
Kingston: $85,000
Kitchener-Waterloo: $75,000
Mississauga: $60,000
Oshawa: $43,000
For all municipalities, Matching Funds request range from $500 to $5,000 

For more information on artsVest, see Ontario Guidelines