Canada Magazine Fund (CMF)

Support for Business
Development for Magazine
Publishers

Applicant's Guide 2007-2008

Table of contents

Part I

Program objectives, eligibility criteria and funding conditions

1. Canada Magazine Fund (CMF)
   
   
   • 1.1 OBJECTIVES
   
   
2. Support for Business Development for Magazine Publishers (SBDMP)
   
   
   • 2.1 OBJECTIVES
   
   
3. Eligibility criteria
   
   
   • 3.1 ELIGIBLE PUBLISHING FIRMS
   • 3.2 ELIGIBLE MAGAZINES
   • 3.3 INELIGIBLE PUBLICATIONS
     • 3.3 1 SCALES TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY
       1. Newspaper scale
       2. Newsletter scale
          
   
   
4. Projects
   
   
   • 4.1 ELIGIBLE PROJECTS AND EXPECTED OUTCOMES
     • 4.1.1 ELIGIBLE PROJECT INITIATIVES
     • 4.1.2 EXPECTED OUTCOMES
     • 4.1.3 ELIGIBLE EXPENSES
     • 4.1.4 INELIGIBLE EXPENSES
     • 4.1.5 IN KIND CONTRIBUTIONS
       
       
   • 4.2 SBDMP CONTRIBUTION LEVELS
   • 4.3 PROJECT ASSESSMENT
     
   
   
5. Application to more than one component of the CMF
   
   
6. Accountability
   
   
   • 6.1 CONTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
   • 6.2 METHODS OF PAYMENT
     • 6.2.1 ADVANCE PAYMENTS
     • 6.2.2 REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES
   • 6.3 REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
   
   
   
7. Department of Canadian Heritage provisions
   
   
   • 7.1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
   • 7.2 MINISTER'S DISCRETION AND DECISIONS
   • 7.3 AUDITS OF PROJECTS
     
     • 7.3.1 FINANCIAL AUDITS
     • 7.3.2 AUDITS OF CIRCULATION
   • 7.4 EVALUATION OF THE CMF
   • 7.5 STUDIES
   • 7.6 ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACT
   • 7.7 PUBLIC INFORMATION
     

Part II

Application process

1. Deadline
   
   
2. Application instructions
   
   
   1. BEFORE COMPLETING THE APPLICATION FORM AND PREPARING THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTS
   2. AS YOU PROCEED WITH YOUR APPLICATION
   3. BEFORE SENDING YOUR APPLICATION
   4. FOR ASSISTANCE
   5. OUR ADDRESS
      
      
3. Complete application
   
   
   1. CMF - SBDMP APPLICATION FORM
   2. PROJECT INFORMATION
   3. OTHER SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS
      • 1. ISSUES OF THE MAGAZINE
        • 1.1 REGULAR AND SPECIAL ISSUES
        • 1.2 MARKED ISSUES OF THE MAGAZINE
        • 1.3 MOST RECENT ISSUE OF THE MAGAZINE
      • 2. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF THE PUBLISHING FIRM
      • 3. CIRCULATION INFORMATION
   
   

Part III

1. Definitions