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Tools, Templates, and Links

Find some of our most-shared tools, templates, and external links to help you navigate running an arts-based business or nonprofit.


Our Services

Whether you’re looking for help with a single question, just getting started, or are a seasoned practitioner, we can help connect you to the knowledge you need to help be successful in art and business.

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  • BVA is a matching service that connects volunteers from the private and public sectors, including lawyers, accountants, marketing and communications professionals, and others, with local artists and arts organizations for 1-2 hour pro bono connections.

  • Our Business Workshops for Artists focus on subjects such as grant writing, social media marketing, preparing your taxes, fundraising, copyright, and more.

  • Grow to Lead connects leaders in the arts and business communities to help strengthen the arts sector, one relationship at a time. Mentorship pairs work closely together for a minimum of 3 hours per month, for ten months.

  • Exploring how arts organizations can measure our multi-faceted impacts on our artists and culture, our communities, and the economy, and tell those stories.

    The Dimensions of Impact research and framework were published in January 2025. Stay tuned for cupcoming programming in this area!

  • Team Up With the Arts unites members of the creative sector in the province with potential volunteers who want to make an impact. Together, participants learn through a four-part program created in partnership with the Gardiner Centre, which provides a foundational understanding of governance. Upon completion, volunteers may choose to be matched to join the board of one of the participating arts organizations.