Feedback & Research
People engaging in a discussion while sitting in a circle at the 2022 ECO Gathering.
Check out what we are finding out through this process.
To understand the change needed, SaskCulture is working to compile community feedback and data from different stakeholders. Different reports and summaries will be shared to help those working to build recommendations for future funding decisions and positive community change.
SaskCulture-Led Reports
AGM Consultation Feedback Report
This report summarizes feedback gathered during SaskCulture’s Annual General Meeting in June 2025. Consultants, Ivy + Dean Consulting and Common Ground Consulting, presented findings from community consultations and facilitated ten table talks with attendees, while staff and board members actively listened.
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AGM Consultation Feedback Report - Plain Language Version
This report summarizes feedback gathered during SaskCulture’s Annual General Meeting in June 2025. Consultants, Ivy + Dean Consulting and Common Ground Consulting, presented findings from community consultations and facilitated ten table talks with attendees, while staff and board members actively listened.
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Key Themes on Funding Equity (SaskCulture Network Gathering, October 2023)
Learn what SaskCulture members were thinking about approaches to equity funding. Participants shared key ideas and challenges, including implementation of IDEA policies, plans and programs; increasing the diversity of staff, board and membership, improving accessibility; lack of time, capacity and understanding or awareness of IDEA; improving application processes and evaluation; a well as increasing training, transparency, communication and outreach.
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AGM Consultation Feedback Report
This report summarizes feedback gathered during SaskCulture’s Annual General Meeting in June 2025. Consultants, Ivy + Dean Consulting and Common Ground Consulting, presented findings from community consultations and facilitated ten table talks with attendees, while staff and board members actively listened.
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Download
AGM Consultation Feedback Report - Plain Language Version
This report summarizes feedback gathered during SaskCulture’s Annual General Meeting in June 2025. Consultants, Ivy + Dean Consulting and Common Ground Consulting, presented findings from community consultations and facilitated ten table talks with attendees, while staff and board members actively listened.
docx
Download
Key Themes on Funding Equity (SaskCulture Network Gathering, October 2023)
Learn what SaskCulture members were thinking about approaches to equity funding. Participants shared key ideas and challenges, including implementation of IDEA policies, plans and programs; increasing the diversity of staff, board and membership, improving accessibility; lack of time, capacity and understanding or awareness of IDEA; improving application processes and evaluation; a well as increasing training, transparency, communication and outreach.
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Identification of Leading Equity Funding Practices
Plain Language Summary: Identification of Leading Funding Practices to Support People with Disabilities (Left Turn/Right Turn, 2025)
Consultants from Left Turn Right Turn wrote a literature review that describes what organizations can do to make their funding practices more accessible and equitable. This document summarizes that literature review using plain language for accessibility.
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Identification of Leading Funding Practices to Support People with Disabilities (Left Turn/Right Turn, 2024)
Consultants from Left Turn/Right Turn provides an overview of promising funding practices that helps to ensure equitable funding for people with disabilities. The report focuses on holistic conception of funding that includes what and who is funded currently, relationships needed, accessibility, equity and accountability of funding recipients/funders, adjudication concepts, communication, beneficiaries, impacts of funded initiatives, as well as recommendations for moving forward.
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Funding the Rainbow: Informing Queer & Trans Inclusive Funding Practices at SaskCulture (Ivy and Dean, 2024)
Ivy + Dean Consulting (i+d) provides a comprehensive report of promising and leading practices for meaningfully and authentically engaging Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other sexually and gender diverse (2SLGBTQIA+) communities. The report includes an environmental scan, analysis, current funding practices as well as recommendations that focus on connecting with the Queer & Trans community, improving internal capacity and supporting the mitigation of homophobia and transphobia.
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Leading Equity-Funding Practices in support of IDEA (Summary, Praxis 2022)
Summary of leading practices compiled to help in the evaluation and consideration of forward-thinking, evidence-based approaches to equity funding practices. Data includes: interviews, examples of leading equity funding practices from across Canada and the US, as well as an evaluation and monitoring practices.
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Plain Language Summary: Identification of Leading Funding Practices to Support People with Disabilities (Left Turn/Right Turn, 2025)
Consultants from Left Turn Right Turn wrote a literature review that describes what organizations can do to make their funding practices more accessible and equitable. This document summarizes that literature review using plain language for accessibility.
pdf
Download
Identification of Leading Funding Practices to Support People with Disabilities (Left Turn/Right Turn, 2024)
Consultants from Left Turn/Right Turn provides an overview of promising funding practices that helps to ensure equitable funding for people with disabilities. The report focuses on holistic conception of funding that includes what and who is funded currently, relationships needed, accessibility, equity and accountability of funding recipients/funders, adjudication concepts, communication, beneficiaries, impacts of funded initiatives, as well as recommendations for moving forward.
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Download
Funding the Rainbow: Informing Queer & Trans Inclusive Funding Practices at SaskCulture (Ivy and Dean, 2024)
Ivy + Dean Consulting (i+d) provides a comprehensive report of promising and leading practices for meaningfully and authentically engaging Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other sexually and gender diverse (2SLGBTQIA+) communities. The report includes an environmental scan, analysis, current funding practices as well as recommendations that focus on connecting with the Queer & Trans community, improving internal capacity and supporting the mitigation of homophobia and transphobia.
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Download
Leading Equity-Funding Practices in support of IDEA (Summary, Praxis 2022)
Summary of leading practices compiled to help in the evaluation and consideration of forward-thinking, evidence-based approaches to equity funding practices. Data includes: interviews, examples of leading equity funding practices from across Canada and the US, as well as an evaluation and monitoring practices.
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Community Consultation Reports
SaskCulture Funding Program Renewal Community Consultation Report (Common Ground Consulting Inc. and AML Consulting, 2025)
The report, conducted by AML Consulting and Common Ground Consulting Inc., shares key insights and recommendations from SaskCulture’s Funding Program Renewal Project Community Consultation. More than 220 individuals and organizations participated through surveys, focus groups, and interviews. Participants represented a wide range of groups, including mainstream arts, culture, and heritage organizations, Indigenous cultural leaders, ethnocultural and newcomer-serving groups, youth, rural and northern communities and volunteer-run organizations.
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SaskCulture Funding Program Renewal Community Consultation Report (Ivy + Dean Consulting, 2025)
This report by Ivy + Dean Consulting presents findings from SaskCulture’s Funding Program Renewal Project Community Consultation. It gathered input from 2SLGBTQ+ and Disabled communities, as well as Eligible Cultural Organizations (ECOs) across Saskatchewan. The consultation aimed to advance inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility in the cultural sector. Through interviews, discussion groups, a town hall, and a public survey, the report captures a wide range of perspectives and offers recommendations to help SaskCulture better support these communities and promote more equitable cultural funding and programming.
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Annual Global Funding Evaluation (Common Ground and AML Consulting, 2025)
As a part of SaskCulture's broader program renewal initiative the evaluation, conducted by AML Consulting and Common Ground Consulting Inc., examined the Annual Global Funding (AGF) program through three components: reporting and performance criteria, impact evaluation and measurement, and an assessment of AGF tools and supports. The evaluation drew on multiple sources including a survey and focus group sessions with Eligible Cultural Organizations (ECO's), review of feedback gathered from volunteer peer assessors, consultation with SaskCulture staff, document analysis, and exploratory research on practices used by comparable funders.
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SaskCulture Funding Program Renewal Community Consultation Report (Common Ground Consulting Inc. and AML Consulting, 2025)
The report, conducted by AML Consulting and Common Ground Consulting Inc., shares key insights and recommendations from SaskCulture’s Funding Program Renewal Project Community Consultation. More than 220 individuals and organizations participated through surveys, focus groups, and interviews. Participants represented a wide range of groups, including mainstream arts, culture, and heritage organizations, Indigenous cultural leaders, ethnocultural and newcomer-serving groups, youth, rural and northern communities and volunteer-run organizations.
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SaskCulture Funding Program Renewal Community Consultation Report (Ivy + Dean Consulting, 2025)
This report by Ivy + Dean Consulting presents findings from SaskCulture’s Funding Program Renewal Project Community Consultation. It gathered input from 2SLGBTQ+ and Disabled communities, as well as Eligible Cultural Organizations (ECOs) across Saskatchewan. The consultation aimed to advance inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility in the cultural sector. Through interviews, discussion groups, a town hall, and a public survey, the report captures a wide range of perspectives and offers recommendations to help SaskCulture better support these communities and promote more equitable cultural funding and programming.
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Download
Annual Global Funding Evaluation (Common Ground and AML Consulting, 2025)
As a part of SaskCulture's broader program renewal initiative the evaluation, conducted by AML Consulting and Common Ground Consulting Inc., examined the Annual Global Funding (AGF) program through three components: reporting and performance criteria, impact evaluation and measurement, and an assessment of AGF tools and supports. The evaluation drew on multiple sources including a survey and focus group sessions with Eligible Cultural Organizations (ECO's), review of feedback gathered from volunteer peer assessors, consultation with SaskCulture staff, document analysis, and exploratory research on practices used by comparable funders.
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Partnership Reports
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Assessment of Demographic & Community Data
Back in 2013, Sask Sport, SaskCulture and SPRA contracted McNair Developments to compile data on Saskatchewan communities: population, demographic, socioeconomic and other relevant outcome data. The report was created to help regions and individual communities better understand demographic changes to better serve residents
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Demographics of Saskatchewan Research (2024-25 underway)
SaskCulture, in conjunction with its Tri-Global partners, will complete a new Demographics Report to gather and present the current “diversity demographic data” along with analysis and interpretation of trends for the sport, culture and recreation sector. Data will be shared in the sectors to help ensure lottery recipients are responsive to the cultural diversity and societal realities in Saskatchewan.
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