Hello All,

We are venturing into uncharted territory here in Austin, to utilize a new stream of our Hotel Occupancy Funding to support “commercial” music.  We need a better term for this program’s intended recipients, but it is targeting the for-profit industry music sector (versus non-profit music performance/activities, whom we already fund and will continue to fund). 

Do any of you make this distinction in your granting or support programs or do you work with other City Departments (maybe an “Entertainment or Night Life” focused entity?) who administer something like this?  Looking for best practices or approaches that we could benchmark or learn from.

Thanks!

Meghan

Meghan Wells

Manager, Cultural Arts Division

City of Austin

512.974.9314

PLEASE NOTE:  The Cultural Arts Division has moved!  We are now located at 5202 East Ben White Boulevard, Suite 400; Austin, TX 78741.

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