Funding

Access Copyright Foundation is now accepting applications for its 2025 round of Events Grants funding. The Foundation’s Events Grants program is ideal for organizations planning festivals, reading series, conferences, professional-development opportunities or other activities that aim to celebrate the literary and/or visual arts in Canada. If that sounds like something your organization is doing or […]

Unveiling the 27 recipients for the Foundation’s 2025 round of Professional Development Grant funding TORONTO: August 7, 2025 – Access Copyright Foundation, an arm’s length foundation of Access Copyright, is excited to announce the Canadian creators, publishers and organizations who have been awarded Professional Development Grants for 2025. In total, $60,000 in grant funding has

Congratulations to the thirty-three creators and publishers awarded $140,000 in grant funding towards the creation of new Canadian published works TORONTO: July 16, 2025 – Access Copyright Foundation, an arm’s length foundation of Access Copyright, is excited to unveil the thirty-three creators and publishers that have been awarded a Marian Hebb Research Grant for 2025.

Seeking financial support to sharpen your skills or expand your expertise?   Access Copyright Foundation’s Professional Development Grants program may be able to help. The Foundation offers grant funding to facilitate professional-development opportunities for Canadian writers, visual artists and publishers as well as staff members at organizations that represent them. If you’re considering undertaking education

TORONTO: February 6, 2025 – Access Copyright Foundation is pleased to share the 24 organizations that have been awarded Events Grants for the Foundation’s 2024 round of funding.   Please join us in congratulating:   Atlantic Book Awards Society; Halifax, NS Cabot Trail Writers Festival Society; Grand Etang, NS Canadian Artists’ Representation / Le Front

Access Copyright Foundation is now accepting applications for its 2025 round of funding for Marian Hebb Research Grants. The Foundation’s Marian Hebb Research Grants program supports inquiry, information gathering and exploration by individuals and organizations relevant to Canadian publishing, writing and visual arts, and toward the realization of a publishable work in progress. If this

Access Copyright Foundation is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our 2024 round of Events Grants funding. The Foundation’s Events Grants program is ideal for organizations planning festivals, reading series, conferences, professional-development opportunities or other activities, either in-person or virtual, that aim to celebrate the literary and/or visual arts in Canada.

TORONTO: August 22, 2024 –Access Copyright Foundation is pleased to congratulate the following 27 creators, publishers and creative organizations who have been awarded Professional Development Grants for 2024. Lareina Abbot; Calgary, AB AfterWords Literary Festival; Halifax, NS Marta Balcewicz; Toronto, ON Bibi Balkhi; Vancouver, BC Adèle Barclay; Vancouver, BC Jennifer Batler; Baltimore, ON Kate Bird;

TORONTO: July 16, 2024 –Access Copyright Foundation is pleased to unveil the 35 creators and creative organizations who have been awarded Marian Hebb Research Grants for 2024. Please join us in congratulating: Association of Canadian Publishers; Toronto, ON Matthew Behrens; Ottawa, ON Vince Beiser; Vancouver, BC Sheima Benembarek; Bromont, QC Marian Botsford Fraser; Vancouver, BC

TORONTO: February 21, 2024 – Access Copyright Foundation is pleased to announce the 16 organizations that have been awarded a total of $100,000 in Events Grants funding. Please join us in congratulating: AfterWords Literary Festival; Halifax, NS Anskohk Aboriginal Writers’ Circle Inc.; Saskatoon, SK Asian Canadian Writers Workshop Society; Vancouver, BC BC Yukon Book Prizes;