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<span style="font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">New Arts and Social Innovation Program for Non-Profits in the Arts<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:16.8pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:19.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#474747">Learn more at an information session in your community<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#474747">Posted: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#474747">October 16, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747">Vancouver Foundation, in partnership with the BC Arts Council, is launching the Arts and Social Innovation Program intended for arts and culture not-for-profit organizations interested
in developing social innovation projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Running from March to May of 2019, the program will support a cohort of 12 teams to develop projects—specifically examining barriers to equity,
diversity, and access—by delving deeper into the concept and methodology of social innovation and how to apply it to their project design.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747"> Project teams consist of up to four
people with no more than two people from the same organization. By the end, participants will have project proposals that should be ready for applying to funding calls with the Vancouver Foundation and/or the BC Arts Council. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:18.0pt;margin-left:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747">Leading up to this, we’re hosting a series of in-person and online information sessions across the province, to offer interested organizations an opportunity to hear directly from
us about this new program. Attendees can expect to learn about the program syllabus and application guidelines, as well as have an opportunity to connect with other participants and start thinking through their own social innovation project. Attendance at
an information session or webinar is required to be eligible to apply to the Program. Limited funding is available for travel reimbursements; please contact us if travel costs are a barrier to your participation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box">
<strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#474747;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Learn More at an Info Session</span></strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:18.0pt;margin-left:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747">To attend an information session in your community, please click the links below to RSVP on Eventbrite:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-and-social-innovation-information-session-surrey-tickets-51491050117"><span style="color:#009BC2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">October
30: Surrey</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-and-social-innovation-information-session-victoria-tickets-51491272783"><span style="color:#009BC2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">November
1: Victoria </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-and-social-innovation-information-session-vancouver-tickets-51491128351"><span style="color:#009BC2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">November
5: Vancouver</span></a> - FULL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-and-social-innovation-information-session-nelson-tickets-51724274698"><span style="color:#009BC2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">November
9: Nelson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-and-social-innovation-information-session-kamloops-afternoon-tickets-51491979898"><span style="color:#009BC2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">November
21 – afternoon session: Kamloops</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-and-social-innovation-information-session-kamloops-evening-tickets-51492039075"><span style="color:#009BC2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">November
21 – evening session: Kamloops</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-and-social-innovation-information-session-kelowna-tickets-51491702067"><span style="color:#009BC2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">November
23: Kelowna</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747">TBD: Prince George - </span><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#474747;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm"><a href="http://go.vancouverfoundation.ca/l/468821/2018-10-25/41f3mg"><span style="color:#009BC2">Click
here to know</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747"> when we announce the date and location!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#474747;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Webinar sessions</span></strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-and-social-innovation-information-session-webinar-tickets-51726194440"><span style="color:#009BC2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">November
19: Webinar</span></a> - FULL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-and-social-innovation-information-session-webinar-tickets-51975139040"><span style="color:#009BC2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">November
28: Webinar</span></a> - FULL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/arts-and-social-innovation-information-session-webinar-tickets-51976063806"><span style="color:#009BC2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">December
4: Webinar</span></a> - SPOTS OPEN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:18.0pt;margin-left:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747">If the information session in your community is sold out, we encourage you to sign up for a webinar instead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747">The deadline to apply to the Arts and Innovation Program is December 31, 2018. </span><strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#474747;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">In
order to be eligible to participate in the program, applicants will need to have attended either an in-person or online information session</span></strong><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#474747">If you have any questions, please contact Niveria at <a href="mailto:niveria.oliveira@vancouverfoundation.ca?subject=Re%3A%20Arts%20and%20Social%20Innovation%20Program"><span style="color:#009BC2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">niveria.oliveira@vancouverfoundation.ca</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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