The City’s Initiative grant program provides funding to individual artists and nonprofits for strategic and creative opportunities to engage visitors and residents while building upon Houston’s cultural identity and tourism.
Donor Name: Houston Arts Alliance (HAA)
State: Texas
City: Houston
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/30/2022
Size of the Grant: $5,000 and $10,000
Details:
Proposed activities should not be a part of the applicant’s regular programming or annual schedule of activities or events. Grant expenses are restricted to project-related costs, which include artist fees, and marketing costs.
Houston is a true international city, linked by both commerce and culture to countless places around the world. Its growing populations show that Houston is now the single most ethnically diverse major metropolitan area in the entire country. One in four residents is foreign-born, contributing to an ever-changing culture that spurs creative innovation. It is one of the best places in the world for arts, and its creative community represents a strategic opportunity for Houston’s civic identity and tourism.
Funding for the City’s Initiative grant program will support arts and cultural programming that is accessible to the Houston community and its visitors.
Funding Areas
- Art + Disaster Resilience Awareness: Proposed work should address the awareness and preparedness for environmental risk such as climate crisis, flooding, food deserts, hurricanes and tropical storms, environmental justice, electricity disruption and for other similar topics using the arts. Applicants should review Resilient Houston, Chapter 2, to understand the City’s vision for using arts and culture to build increased risk awareness and preparedness.
- Henry Sanchez’s BioArt Bayou-torium
- Resilient New Orleans: St. Anthony Green Streets Lantern Walk
- Vallero Square in Jerusalem
- ATLAS Art: Climavore on Tidal Zones
- Art + Neighborhood Cultural Destinations: Proposed work should identify a tangible or intangible art or cultural asset of a local neighborhood. The proposed program(s) must consist of at least one arts and cultural activation taking place in the identified neighborhood that also engages the community of that neighborhood. Project examples can be seen at the links below:
- Baytown, TX: Umbrella Alley
- CHAT: Gulfton Story Trail
- Art + Conference Tourism: Proposed work should be in partnership with a significant conference to provide conference participants, residents, and visitors an activity featuring Houston artists or arts and culture attractions in Houston.
Funding Information
Typical awards are between $5,000 and $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- All applicants must provide official documentation demonstrating a physical address in the City of Houston limits which is verified by HAA staff through the online Council Member verify mapping tool. P.O. Boxes are not accepted. Details about documentation can be found in the required documentation section on page 9 of this document.
- Organizations or fiscal sponsors must be tax-exempt under the Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), with fiscal year ending 2020 filed with the IRS (990/990N), as verified by the IRS Tax Exemption Organization Search.
- An individual applicant must be at least 18 years old, which will be verified by applicant submission of an official state-issued identification card, passport, or other official document.
- Applicants’ scopes of work must have a clear public presentation component, verified by staff review of the application.
- Applicants may only submit one application per grant program, per deadline, per year.
- Applicants may only apply to one grant program per project.
- Applicants may not receive more than one City’s Initiative grant in a calendar year.
For more information, visit HAA.
