The City of Austin’s Equity Office is excited to announce that applications are open for the 2024-2025 Equity Mini Grant Fund! This program offers a low-barrier funding opportunity to support local grassroots organizations. These Mini Grants will focus on community-based efforts in one or more of the following priority areas:

• Immigrant inclusion
• Solidarity with Unhoused People
• Anti-displacement/displacement prevention

The FY25 Mini Grant Fund will focus on organizing work that uses an equity lens. Priority is given to community-led proposals and organizations that co-create solutions. The Equity Office hopes to reduce challenges for smaller organizations to help amplify their work and keep the focus on community.

The ideal applicant plans to or currently works to improve disparities and incorporates lived experiences of people most impacted at the center of every phase of the work. Strong applicants include organizations and grassroots groups working together on the same issues.

The Equity Office is now accepting applications in both English and Spanish**. The application window closes at 11:59pm on October 15, 2024. Applicants can apply for funding at three different grant award levels: $10,000, $20,00, and $30,000. The Equity Office will notify all applicants of decisions by late December 2024. Funds are anticipated to be released to awardees starting in late January 2025.

*The term “immigrant” includes (but is not limited to) refugee, asylee, undocumented, parolee, etc.

**The Equity Office welcomes requests for applications in other languages. For broader language access, please reach out to the contacts below by September 15th, 2024.

For more information about the program, visit www.austintexas.gov/department/grant-programs. Have questions or want to schedule time with Equity Office staff? Please email equity@austintexas.gov or call 512-974-1797.  
 
 
About the Equity Office
The City of Austin’s Equity Office provides leadership, guidance, and insight on equity to  improve the quality of life for ALL Austinites. The Office strives to achieve the vision of making  Austin the most livable city in the nation for all while building and sustaining a culture of equity across the city. The Equity Office works across all City departments and with major institutions, non-profits and other community organizations working in the Austin area to build capacity and  leadership in working from a racial equity lens. To learn more about the Equity Office, visit https://www.austintexas.gov/department/equity   
  
The Equity Office utilizes the GARE Framework to normalize, organize and operationalize racial equity. Learn more about this Framework, and about GARE by visiting https://www.racialequityalliance.org/