Applications are open for the Baytown Tourism Partnership Grant Program for Arts, and Special Events Promoting Tourism and the Convention and Hotel Industry.
Donor Name: City of Baytown
State: Texas
City: Baytown
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/16/2022
Details:
The City Council approves a sum in the annual budget to assist non-profit corporations and organizations (Organizations) with advertising and promotional costs for their projects such as arts festivals, special events, or conferences (the Project).
Qualifying Categories
Texas Tax Code Chapter 351 states that an organization’s Project must fit into one or more of the following categories, outlined below, to qualify for HOT funding.
- Advertising / Promotions: allows expenditures to be used for advertising and conducting promotional programs directly related to attracting tourists and overnight hotel guests to the City of Baytown. These expenditures are traditionally in the form of internet, social media, television, and radio ads that bring people in town for an event or the Project.
- Promotion of the Arts: allows expenditures to be used for the promotion of the arts, provided the expenditure also promotes tourism and the convention and hotel industry. The arts include the encouragement, promotion, improvement and application of the arts, including instrumental and vocal music, dance, drama, folk art, creative writing, architecture, design and allied fields, painting, sculpture, photography, graphic and craft arts, and other arts related to the presentation, performance, execution, and exhibition of these major art forms. The arts related expenditure be used only for festivals or shows that attract tourists to the City.
- Registration of Convention Delegates: allows for expenditures to be used for costs incurred associated with providing personnel and materials for the registration of convention delegates and registrants.
Eligibility Criteria
All applications must meet the following criteria:
- The Project is taking place in the City of Baytown, or ETJ, and will utilize lodging properties located in the city limits of Baytown.
- The Project fits into at least one of the three categories listed in the application.
- The Project is family friendly.
- All funds received in prior years were used correctly, and the post event report was turned in within 60 days after the Project.
- The Organization supplied a marketing plan for the Project that shows potential to attract visitors further than 75 miles outside of Baytown.
- The Organization supplied a proposed itemized Budget identifying all revenue monies from all known sources, and expenditures the HOT funding will cover.
- The Organization shows willingness to work with hoteliers to attract a percentage of the attendees to City lodging properties.
For more information, visit City of Baytown.
