Resources for
AACME Funding Applicants
Everything you need to complete your funding application in one place.
Here you’ll find tools, guides, and templates to help you navigate the Austin Office of Arts, Culture, Music, and Entertainment (AACME) funding process with confidence.
Tip: Bookmark this page so you can easily return to these resources while preparing and submitting your application.
Review the definitions for administrative terms you may come across in AACME funding initiatives.
An important part of your ACME Grant Eligibility and Application forms are your work samples. Work Samples help to provide additional information and evidence of your work to supplement your application.
Use this worksheet to organize and calculate your actual expenses from the past 12 months. It provides a structured template for documenting financial records, totaling expenses by category, and preparing the information needed to complete your grant application accurately.
Use these definitions to help categorize your expenses for Heritage Event or Capital Improvement Project.
Often its not just one person who contributes to a grant application. Whether you are using a Fiscal Sponsor, hiring a grant writer, getting help from your bandmates, or you have a development department - knowing who needs to be the primary account holder in Submittable is important.
Use this template to upload up to three pages of evidence that clearly demonstrate the activities you selected in the Evidence‑Based Multiple‑Choice Questions for the Austin Live Music Fund. Applicants may include links to outside content, add text, or embed images or videos.
Download this fillable form for potential Heritage Preservation Grant applicants planning Capital Improvement or Heritage Event projects on city-owned parkland to provide APR with essential project details.
Use this form if you are proposing a Heritage Preservation Grant project to be hosted at the Austin History Center campus. It helps the Austin Public Library determine whether your proposed exhibit or program is feasible, aligns with community priorities and APL goals, and is eligible to move forward to the full Heritage Preservation Grant application.
This is a fillable document available for you to use as a template while completing the narrative questions in the Elevate application.
This is a fillable document available for you to use as a template while completing the narrative questions in the Heritage Preservation Grant application.
This is a fillable document available for you to use as a template while completing the narrative questions in the Heritage Preservation Grant application.
This is a fillable document available for you to use as a template while completing the narrative questions in the Austin Live Music Fund application.
This is a fillable document available for you to use as a template while completing the narrative questions in the Austin Live Music Fund application.
This is a fillable document available for you to use as a template while completing the narrative questions in the Austin Live Music Fund application.
This document is a template agreement that establishes the working relationship between a fiscal sponsor and a sponsored project participating in The Long Center's FY27 Cultural Services grant program.
See the City of Austin's Guidelines for the Nexus Grant
This resource offers information on the Creative Space Assistance Program, including details about the application process.
This resource list provides tools to support historic research, verify designation or eligibility, and access preservation standards for your Heritage Preservation Grant project proposal.
This document is a step-by-step guide to help you post an event to Visit Austin to begin reaching the 3.3 million visitors who use the Visit Austin site.