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Registered Canadian charity · 80927 2370 RR0001

Together, we can Save the Canadian Art Community

APULU, pronounced Apollo, funds art students through scholarships, and every gift is amplified through ArtVest.

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APULU

SAVE the ARTS

We need ART.

Our scholarships are designed to bridge the funding gap faced by art students. These scholarships are aimed at a multitude of students secondary / post-secondary students. Potential candidates must demonstrate passion and dedication to a specific artistic field. APULU covers a variety of different disciplines and is a private art fund that exists independently to any particular college or university. Students can apply anytime.

Any school A private art fund, independent of any particular college or university
Any discipline A variety of different disciplines
Any time Students can apply anytime
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Your future is our masterpiece

Art and colour

To our brilliant & dedicated student artists, please remember that your future is our masterpiece— we warmly encourage you to apply for Post Secondary Funding. And to anyone wishing to share their passion, we invite you to join our mission by volunteering. Your belief in the profound power of art and community fuels everything we do. Every donation is a personal investment, and we want you to know it is powerfully amplified through our APULU's ArtVest, maximizing the reach and impact and transforming your generosity into tangible support for artists and essential community projects.

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How every gift is amplified

ArtVest

ArtVest functions as a high-impact financial engine for social good. The system acquires high-value artworks, which are then used as collateralized leverage. By securing low-interest lines of credit against these assets, the platform generates immediate liquidity without selling the collection. These funds are reinvested into high-yield vehicles or directed toward charitable outreach. This structure ensures a perpetual cycle: the art appreciates in value while the leveraged capital funds critical charitable education endeavours. Essentially, ArtVest transforms static masterpieces into active, compounding tools for philanthropy.

  1. 01 Acquire High-value artworks are acquired for the collection.
  2. 02 Leverage Low-interest lines of credit are secured against the art, without selling it.
  3. 03 Deploy Funds are reinvested or directed toward charitable outreach.
  4. 04 Compound The art appreciates in value while the capital funds charitable education.
Mind and art

Art & the mind

Art has been scientifically proven to HELP improve logical problem-solving, memory, cognitive abilities, enhance focus and concentration.

Artistic creation develops and engages both cognitive hemispheres of the mind, the left hemisphere (practical and analytical), operates with an intensified neural synergy with the right hemisphere (creativity and imagination) due to the artistic process. Furthermore, exercising memory, attention, problem-solving skills, visual perceptual skills, hand-eye coordination, dexterity, muscle control, and decision making the mind is able to strengthen its connection with the body.

Who we are

What we stand for

Mission

Mission

APULU advances education in the arts. We fund Canadian secondary and post-secondary art students through scholarships, deliver structured art programming in Canadian hospitals, and steward every dollar given so that the cost of an arts education is never the reason a gifted student stops creating.

Change

Change

Artistic talent in this country is evenly distributed; the money to develop it is not. APULU closes that gap one student at a time, removing the tuition, supply and equipment barriers that push emerging artists out of their disciplines before they finish training. We measure success not by funds raised but by students who complete their programs and enter the arts economy.

Vision

Vision

A Canada in which any young person with artistic ability can pursue a formal arts education regardless of income, postal code, school or chosen discipline — and in which the arts are understood not as a luxury but as public infrastructure for learning, health and national identity.

Partnership

Partnership

APULU is independent of any single college, university or art form, and that independence is what lets us work alongside all of them. We partner with educational institutions, hospitals including SickKids in Toronto, practising artists, volunteers and donors — each bringing reach we could not build alone — and we hold those relationships to the same standard of transparency as our books.

Engagement

Engagement

Access should not depend on who you know. APULU runs an open, curated and digitally safe application platform: any eligible student may apply at any time, in any discipline, from any school — with no gatekeepers, no application windows and no application fees. Beyond funding, we connect artists to one another across disciplines, because a community that knows itself is far harder to lose.

Together

Together

Every gift to APULU is built to work more than once. Through ArtVest, donations are deployed so that each dollar keeps funding scholarships and community programming in the years after it is given, rather than being spent down and gone. Every donor receives an official charitable receipt, and every dollar is accounted for against our registered charitable purposes.

Questions

Frequently asked

APULU

Is an acronym with 3 principle elucidations: Art Promoting Universal Lifelong Understanding Advancement Produced by Utilized Literacy - United Art Paraphernalia Utilized for Literacy – United. APULU supports the Canadian art community by bridging the funding gap for students. By donating to APULU, you contribute to saving Canadian art, culture, and identity, ensuring a strong and vibrant artistic future.

How do I contact APULU?

3 Catherine Avenue, Aurora, Ontario, L4G 1K4, Canada

Where does your donation really go?

APULU is not like other charities.

At too many charities, paid fundraisers and overhead take the first cut of your gift, and sometimes almost all of it. APULU pays no fundraisers. Every gift is maximized for Canadian art students, and ArtVest is built to grow it, not burn it.

Here is what regulators and watchdogs have found at other charities:

  • 27¢ of every dollar went to fundraising and administration at the average Canadian charity rated by Charity Intelligence in 2023 (829 charities). One in four spent more than 35¢; those averaged 53¢.Charity Intelligence Canada, 2024 Sector Snapshot
  • 35% is the point where fundraising costs, as a share of the money raised, draw a closer look from the Canada Revenue Agency. Above 70%, the charity must explain why.CRA guidance CG-013, Fundraising by registered charities
  • 48¢ is all charities kept of each dollar from the more than $302 million telemarketers raised for them in New York in 2013. In nearly half of 573 campaigns, the charity kept less than 30¢ or lost money.New York State Attorney General, 2015 report
  • 85% or more of every donation often went to paid fundraisers at four U.S. cancer charities charged with bilking donors of more than $187 million from 2008 to 2012.U.S. Federal Trade Commission, all 50 states and D.C., 2015
  • <4% of the more than $1.3 billion raised by America’s 50 worst charities over a decade went to direct cash aid. Nearly $1 billion went to the companies hired to raise it.Tampa Bay Times and Center for Investigative Reporting, 2013
PS - Pronounced Apollo

Pronounced Apollo, we are Canada's only art-based registered charitable organization 809272370RR0001. Without funding the Canadian Art Community will lose its identity and an important part of Canada's culture will be lost. By giving to APULU you say YES to funding art students and saving art and culture. Together, we can SAVE The Canadian Art Community!

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