From the Canada Council:

“You might remember that this initiative offered $5,000 micro innovation grants for artists, groups, and organizations to adapt existing work or create new work to share with the public. Our partner CBC/Radio-Canada will feature select projects in a digital showcase. We also partnered with the RBC Foundation to ensure $150,000 of Digital Originals funding went to new and early career artists. In partnering, we aligned shared goals and complemented resources.

We hoped the initiative would be timely and gain widespread interest from applicants.

Now the results from the Digital Originals initiative are in—and they point to a bright future.”

– 4,200 applications received

– over 1,000 microgrants awarded, a total of $5.2M

– more than 40% of recipients were first time recipients of Canada Council funds

– 44% of Digital Original recipients are indigenous and/or from one or more of the Council’s equity priority groups