Small Business Resources

Austin Water Utility offers rebates and incentives to business taking steps to conserve water. 

The mission of the Small Business Division is to foster job creation and support the growth of new and existing businesses by providing capacity building information, tools, and resources.

An employee who prepares or handles food must complete a Food Handler training course accredited either through the American National Standards Institute or the State of Texas. 

The Family Business Loan Program is a public-private partnership between the City of Austin, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and participating private lenders to offer low-interest loans to qualified small businesses that are expanding and creating jobs. 

BizAid Business Orientation provides a general overview of opening a small business or re-evaluating an existing business during its growth. 

The Austin Green Business Leaders Program can help you protect the environment save money, and make Austin a more livable place.  

The City's Music & Entertainment Division is an economic development accelerator and centralized resource center for Austin's music industry, and an active community partner for Austin's citizens, community groups, and neighborhoods. 

Get answers and assistance with issues you have regarding the City of Austin. 

The City of Austin Recycling and Reuse Enterprise Resource Guide provides information on local programs, services, resources, community groups, and regulations relevant to you as a zero waste entrepreneur. 

The City of Austin's Brownfields Revitalizations Office has grant funding available to provide free environmental site assessments, such as Phase I ESAs, which are needed for due diligence during property acquisition. 

Professional organization representing the software, Internet, information technology, new media, semiconductor, hardware and telecommunications industries. 

SMP's mission is to advocate for, educate and connect leaders in the building industry. 

The Austin Museum Partnership is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that promotes and facilitates collaboration within the museum community for the benefit of our museums and the community at large. 

The Austin Film Society is a non-profit organization that empowers the Austin community to make, watch and love film and creative media by showing great films and premiers.

The Austin Creative Alliance aims to advance, connect and advocate for Austin's arts, cultural, and creative communities. 

Austin Blues Society represents the past, present and future of blues music through education, commemoration and preservation. 

The Greater Austin Asian Chamber of Commerce is the leading partner for driving local economic growth for businesses with ties to Asia and Asian Americans. 

ARMA International is a not-for-profit association and the leading authority on managing records and information.

The Austin Asian American Bar Association seeks to serve the mutual professional, social, mentoring, and community interests of Asian American lawyers and lawyers with interest in the Austin Asian American community. 

The mission of the Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) is to advance our state economically and culturally investing in a creative Texas. 

ArtistShare, founded in 2001 as the Internet's first "crowdfunding" platform, connects artists with fans in order to share the excitement and beauty of the creative process.

Colorado based Artists' Charitable Fund assists American artists living anywhere in the United States by paying a portion of their medical / dental / eye-care bills. 

The Alliance of Artists Communities is an international association of artists' residencies - a diverse field of more than 1,500 programs worldwide that support artists of any discipline in the development of new creative work.  

ALPFA's mission is to empower and develop Latino men and women as leaders of character for the nation, in every sector of the global economy.