Ontario Music Fund and Celebrate Ontario Grant Recipient Survey

To all Ontario Music Fund and Celebrate Ontario recipients:

As you are aware from our previous correspondence, the new Ontario Government has committed to reviewing all government programs, which will include the Ontario Music Fund and the Celebrate Ontario fund.

We are seeking further information from recipients in order to support our advocacy efforts, and ask that you complete this brief survey (maximum of ten minutes). All responses will be kept confidential and will only be used in the aggregate.

Thank you for your support of our advocacy efforts.

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* 1. Which city or town is your organization based in?

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* 2. Please select your organization’s activities (please select all that apply):

Concert/Festival Promoter

Presenter

Festival

Agent

Music Industry Organization

Other (please specify)

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* 3. How many full-time equivalent employees do you have?

1-3

5-10

10-15

15-20

25+

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* 4. How important is the Ontario Music Fund and/or Celebrate Ontario fund to the survival of your organization?

Crucial

Very important

Important

Somewhat important

Not at all important

Don’t know

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* 5. Please select each year that your organization received Ontario Music Fund and/or Celebrate Ontario funding (please select all that apply):

2013-2014

2014-2015

2015-2016

2016-2017

2017-2018

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* 6. Should the Ontario Music Fund and Celebrate Ontario fund continue existing funding levels, would your organization apply for funding in the foreseeable future?

Yes

Don’t know

No opinion

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* 7. Toward which activities do you invest your Ontario Music Fund and/or Celebrate Ontario fund dollars?

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* 8. Did the Ontario Music Fund and/or Celebrate Ontario fund facilitate more investment by your organization?

Yes

Don’t know

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* 9. In what areas did the Ontario Music Fund and/or Celebrate Ontario facilitate investments? (Please check all that apply.)

Allowed our company to hire more Canadian artists

Increased investment in business development activities (e.g. financial management and business planning) leading to company growth

Created new Ontario based jobs

Helped to increase social profile

Other (please specify)

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* 10. Using top line revenue as a metric, how much did your company grow, expressed in a dollar amount, as a result of the Ontario Music Fund and/or Celebrate Ontario investment?

<$50,000

$50,000 - $100,000

$100,000 - $250,000

$250,000 - $500,000

>$500,000

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* 11. Using top line revenue as a metric, how much did your company grow, expressed in a percentage, as a result of Ontario Music Fund and/or Celebrate Ontario investment?

<10%

11-20%

21-30%

31-40%

41-50%

>50%

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* 12. Please share any comments or anecdotes that demonstrate the impact of the Ontario Music Fund and/or Celebrate Ontario fund has had on your organization:

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* 13. If these funds were to be cancelled or your funding reduced, how might this affect your company?

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* 14. What advice would you give the Ontario Government that could improve the Ontario Music Fund and/or Celebrate Ontario fund? (Note: this is a rules/process/procedure question and not a budget question.)

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* 15. We want to tell your story! What would you consider to be your greatest success story (or stories) that resulted from the Ontario Music Fund and/or Celebrate Ontario fund?

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* 16. We may call upon you to host government staff/officials to give them a behind the scenes look at live music. Do you have any shows and/or events coming up in the next four months? If so, please describe the programming.