The City of Austin is seeking applications for its 2023 Equity Mini-Grant for grassroots community organizations working to address significant quality-of-life disparities in the community.
Donor Name: City of Austin
State: Texas
County:
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/20/2023
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $50,000
Details:
The city is focusing on services provided to two priority populations in Austin & Travis County: immigrant communities and the unhoused community.
The Equity Office seeks to work with organizations in the business of putting themselves out of business, and those who have chosen to take on this work in pursuing their own liberation and not on the behalf of “marginalized” communities.
Over the last several years, these funds have prioritized various significant challenges in their community, including COVID-19 recovery efforts, public safety, and immigrant inclusion.
In this spirit and given the continuing work in communities throughout the City of Austin to develop interventions around the displacement of their most marginalized residents, the current Equity Mini-Grant fund seeks to fund projects that help us pilot community-centered solutions addressing:
- houselessness and/or
- immigrant inclusion
Priority Area
- Austin’s Unhoused Community
- This fund will prioritize projects that address the root causes of houselessness and that enhance communities’ capacity to humanely and effectively address unsheltered houseless communities by connecting folks to housing, health care, and supportive services.
- Immigrant Inclusion
- This fund will prioritize local, grassroots efforts to seed projects focused on eliminating structural barriers and/or improving the quality- of- life for the City’s various immigrant communities to increase their sense of welcome and belonging. In addition, they are interested in supporting creative projects that can help bring diverse communities together in the spirit of collaboration.
Funding Information
- A total of $250,000 in funding is available. Recipients can apply for funding ranging from $10,000 to $50,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Awardees are not required to be 501(c)3 registered non-profits to receive funding. However, organizations (or their fiscal sponsor) must be registered as a vendor with the City of Austin.
- Of particular emphasis, but not yet included in the contract template, is a condition that organizations will send project staff and leadership teams through the Undoing Racism workshop, as hosted by the Equity Office and facilitated by the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond. This workshop takes participants through the history of race and how racism has rooted itself in all their systems and institutions. They require this workshop to ensure that all funded organizations are grounded in the same history and analysis of racism, and to help inform and transform the work of equity in Austin. Upon acceptance of the award, Equity Office staff will contact awardees with multiple potential workshop options, and it is expected that awardees will make every reasonable effort to attend one of those options, or else work with Equity Office staff to find a workshop option that aligns with their schedule.
For more information, visit City of Austin.
