The City’s Initiative grant program (CI) 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: 04/23/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
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.
Funding Areas
- Art+Disaster Resilience Awareness.
- Art+Neighborhood Cultural Destinations.
Success Elements
Successful projects will include the following elements:
- Community Engagement
- The project should include working collaboratively with and through groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity or special interests.
- Measurable (tourism/neighborhood) Impact
- The project should attract and be marketed to audiences from outside of the City of Houston either physically or digitally.
- Great Social Media Presence
- The project should include a comprehensive marketing plan with a clear social media element.
- Documented Support of Local Artists and Creatives
- A budget that reflects payments to Houston-based artists and creatives.
Funding Information
Typical awards are between $5,000 and $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations or fiscal sponsors must be tax-exempt under the Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3), as verified by the IRS Tax Exemption Organization Search.
- An individual applicant must be at least 18 years old, which will be verified by the applicant’s 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 submit only one application for each individual grant program. In other words, applicants cannot send multiple applications to the same grant program.
- Applicants cannot use the same project proposal to apply to more than one grant program. Applicants should decide which grant program best aligns with their project goals and apply to that specific program.
- If your project is awarded, that specific project cannot be funded again. Sequential projects or a series of related projects, with unique attributes, features, or iterations, are eligible provided that subsequent applications do not replicate the content or objectives of previous submissions.
- Applicants may not receive more than one City’s Initiative grant in a calendar year.
For more information, visit HAA.
