{"id":1968,"date":"2020-08-24T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T15:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2020-08-24T11:02:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T15:02:52","slug":"crfc-announces-covid-19-relief-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/crfc-announces-covid-19-relief-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"CRFC announces COVID-19 Relief Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 7th 2020 Heritage Canada announced the final components of Phase 2 of the COVID-19<br \/>\nEmergency Support Fund for Cultural, Heritage and Sport Organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC)<\/strong> has been mandated to manage the distribution of<br \/>\nemergency funding relief for the campus and community radio sector.<\/p>\n<p>Working alongside the<strong> Alliance des radios communautaires du Canada (ARCC)<\/strong>, l\u2019<strong>Association des<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>radiodiffuseurs communautaires du Qu\u00e9bec (ARCQ)<\/strong>, and the <strong>National Campus &amp; Community<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Radio Association (NCRA)<\/strong>, the CRFC will be distributing emergency funding relief to allow campus<br \/>\nand community radio stations to maintain their core local programming operations throughout the<br \/>\nCOVID-19 pandemic crisis. The application and disbursement process has been streamlined as much<br \/>\nas possible in order to respond swiftly to stations in need.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>COVID-19 Relief Fund<\/strong> has been set up for stations that have been negatively impacted by the<br \/>\nCOVID-19 pandemic crisis, which has resulted in <strong>financial hardship<\/strong> for them, and are therefore in<br \/>\nthe need for government funding.<\/p>\n<p>The amount that your station could receive cannot be greater than the <strong>financial hardship you will<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>report<\/strong>, and will depend on its <strong>average programming and production expenditures<\/strong> over the last<br \/>\nthree years AND the total number of eligible stations who qualify for the COVID-19 Relief Fund.<br \/>\nPlease read the <a href=\"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/COVID-19-Relief-Fund-Guidelines.pdf\">guidelines<\/a> before submitting your application. These guidelines have been<br \/>\ndeveloped based on criteria established by the Department of Canadian Heritage. To qualify, you<br \/>\nmust complete the online application by <strong>September 18th<\/strong> on the following link:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/MyCRFC-MonFCRC.smapply.io\/prog\/\">https:\/\/MyCRFC-MonFCRC.smapply.io\/prog\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make sure to sign the required attestation and upload the required supporting documents. Please<br \/>\nrefer to our list of <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1S2ZFU1JatBkcHcko7naqPOiszLBQAM9Vez7S1z2mTig\/edit\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/a> while completing your application. Most of the<br \/>\nfinancial information requested is the information you have already provided in your annual<br \/>\nfinancial report to the CRTC.<\/p>\n<p>To apply, you will have to login to the CRFC\u2019s online application platform and create an account if<br \/>\nyou don\u2019t already have one. Please refer to our <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1SIElN24TeKZ7p7s8EBPQsdfX9rQ7pCkW\/view\">tutorial<\/a> to create an account.<\/p>\n<p>Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at prog@crfc-fcrc.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 7th 2020 Heritage Canada announced the final components of Phase 2 of the COVID-19 Emergency Support Fund for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfc-fcrc.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}