Community Memories Program - Program Guidelines: Eligibility
Calls for proposals will be issued on an annual basis. To be eligible for consideration, museums submitting proposals must meet both of the following criteria:
- be public, not-for-profit museums 1 that have demonstrated their commitment to work collaboratively with colleagues across the country by becoming Basic or Contributing members of the Canadian Heritage Information Network and the Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC); and
- be institutions with no more than five full-time paid staff. (Institutions that are entirely volunteer-run or whose communities are not defined geographically are also eligible.)
CHIN member institutions with more than five full-time paid staff members may request a copy of the Community Memories software but are not eligible for financial investment under this program. Interested member institutions must submit a completed Community Memories proposal form during an open call. To obtain the necessary documents, please consult the Proposal Form
Decisions concerning the selection of proposals will be made by the Director General of CHIN based on advice from the VMC Investment Programs staff. It is important to note that due to the Program’s limited budget, not all eligible proposals may be approved for investment. Priority will be given to proposals that have the strongest community partnerships and intergenerational participation in the creation of content.
1 Not-for-profit permanent establishments, exempt from federal and provincial government income taxes, open to the public and administered in the public interest, for the primary purpose of conserving and preserving, studying, interpreting, assembling and exhibiting to the public, for its instruction and enjoyment, objects and specimens of educational and cultural value, including artistic, scientific (whether animate or inanimate), historical and technological material. Museums thus defined include art galleries, art exhibit centres, botanical gardens, zoological parks, aquaria, planetaria, historical society museums and historical houses, preservation projects, and sites which meet the requirements set forth in the preceding sentence.
