Small Business Resources

The Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program includes a 20 percent income tax credit for the rehabilitation of historic, income-producing buildings. The Texas Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program offers a 25 percent tax credit for the rehabilitation of historic buildings.

Information for small business owners on starting a DBA (Assumed Name), Historically Underutilized Businesses(HUB), and doing business with the county. 

The Small Business Lending Fund provide up to $30 billion in capital to qualified banks and other targeted lenders with assets of less than $10 billion. 

The Texas Legislature established the Texas Real Estate Commission in 1949 to safeguard consumers in matters of real property transactions and valuation services.  

Texas CBAR offers a Pro Bono Legal Referral Program designed to connect eligible non-profits and microenterprises with volunteer attorneys who provide legal assistance on business, corporate, and legal matters that do not involve litigation. 

Small businesses in Texas with newly hired workers can receive grants to cover employee training.

Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) provides unemployment benefits for individuals who lost their jobs or self-employment or who are no longer working as a direct result of a major disaster for which a disaster assistance period is declared, and who applied but are not eligible for regular unemployment benefits. 

TexasNonprofits is a source for non-profit jobs and information philanthropy and fundraising in Texas for grantmakers, trustees, foundations, and non-profits. 

To support independent restaurants, the Texas Restaurant Relief Fund will distribute grants of up to $5,000 per unit to immediately support their financial needs. 

US Ignite offers an opportunity for smart city startups to launch or accelerate their cloud-based services or business. 

The annual Dream Big Awards recognizes a small business for its contributions to the U.S. economy and offers a grant to $25,000.

The Biotechnology Commercialization Center's mission is to help commercialize and incubate UTHealth and Houston-based technologies, while increasing the number of Texas-based companies. 

The Texas Rural Cooperative Center exists to improve the economic conditions of rural Texas by assisting with the start-up, expansion, and operational improvement of rural businesses, especially cooperatives and mutually-owned businesses.

Founded by entrepreneurial combat veterans, this non-profit helps veterans who want to start a business by providing start-up grants, instruction, one-on-one mentorship and connection to a community of veteran entrepreneurs and potential funding sources

Western Arts Alliance (WAA) is a membership association of touring and performing arts professionals engaged in promoting and presenting performing arts throughout the western states and provinces. Serving members since 1967, WAA’s annual booking conference and its year-round programs are essential for artists, artist managers, presenters, and other performing arts professionals in the West.

The City’s Bicycle Program works to make Austin an even greater city for biking — and a community where people of all ages and abilities experience biking as safe, comfortable, convenient and fun. 

LIFT Development Enterprises, Inc. is a community development organization and micro-small business accelerator with a mission to help underserved and under represented small business owners to overcome the challenges they face due to lack of access to capital and to assist them in increasing business capacity resulting in higher revenue growth and providing premium wage jobs.