Nexus is a City of Austin Grant that offers $5,000 for new and emerging local small organizations, individual artists, and small arts businesses to produce creative public activities.
Donor Name: City of Austin
State: Texas
County: Bastrop County (TX), Caldwell County (TX), Hays County (TX), Travis County (TX), Williamson County (TX)
City: Austin
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/14/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Nexus grant is designed to nurture new and emerging applicants in the creative community. Funds support creative public activities for the city and its tourists through community-centered arts activities and collaboration. Collaborations might include activities that involve
- Artists
- Culturally specific groups
- Groups representing LGBTQIA and disability communities
- Nonprofits
- Social advocacy organizations.
Priority will be given to:
- Applicants that are representative of, serve and are accountable to communities that are at immediate risk of cultural erasure and displacement within Austin and/or have been institutionally marginalized and under-funded by the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division. This may include applicants that directly serve Black/African American, Native American, Asian, Hispanic/Latino, Middle Eastern, and Pacific Islander communities or LGBTQIA+ and/or disability communities.
- Applicants who have never received City of Austin Cultural Funding awards in the last five years.
Grant Period
Activities Occurring: June 1 – September 30, 2024.
Who can Apply?
- Eligible Applicants
- 501(c) nonprofit arts organization:
- Maximum Annual Expenses $150,000
- Maximum Request Amount $5,000.
- Individual aged 18 or older:
- Maximum Annual Expenses $150,000
- Maximum Request Amount $5,000.
- Creative Business:
- Maximum Annual Expenses $150,000
- Maximum Request Amount $5,000.
- 501(c) nonprofit arts organization:
- Your artistic goals or creative mission is the production of arts and culture activities. This includes organizations that provide professional support to creatives.
- Minimum of one year of operating history in the Austin metropolitan statistical area (MSA), includes: Travis, Bastrop, Caldwell, Hays, and Williamson Counties.
- Over 50% of your creative production is within the Austin 10-1 City Council districts or extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ).
- Proposed activity meets all program requirements as outlined by the Hotel Occupancy Tax.
- All events are open to the public
- Occur within Austin or the Austin ETJ
- Marketed to tourists
- Or applicant is an arts service organization
- Funding from this program may not be used toward activities funded by other City of Austin departments/contracts/grants or other Cultural Funding programs within the same fiscal year.
- City of Austin employees are not eligible to apply for funding.
For more information, visit City of Austin.
