Snapshot: Civic Awards

The Intermunicipal Comparative Framework: An inventory of local government support to cultural development; Snapshot: Civic Awards

The Intermunicipal Comparative Framework Project is a means to inventory and understand the infrastructure, scope, and nature of local government involvement in cultural development across Canada. It creates the structure to capture the nature of local government involvement and investment in cultural development nationally. “Cultural development” is used here in an inclusive sense, and topics addressed in the project include arts, heritage, facilities, civic art collections, public art, funding, non-monetary support, and more.

Legislation and policies. Civic awards appear to be quite common but formal legislation and policies to govern them are less so. Generally, persons are nominated for civic awards rather than making application to be awarded. The majority of the awards reported do not include a monetary award.

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