Women’s Fund plans to award 25 general operating grants
AUSTIN
Women's Fund to award grants
The Austin Community Foundation has announced a request for proposals for the Women’s Fund.
The Women’s Fund is a collective giving network that provides grant funding to support the economic security of women and their children in Central Texas. The Women’s Fund plans to award 25 unrestricted, general operating grants totaling $500,000 this spring to local groups that work in the following areas:
• Housing – providing affordable housing opportunities that include a network of support and/or opportunities for long-term wealth-building.
• Child Care – increased access to affordable, convenient, culturally competent and quality child care for families with low incomes.
• Education – providing access to an ecosystem of support – academic, emotional and financial – for women pursuing educational dreams.
• Women’s Health – focusing on reducing health disparities faced by women of color.
• Unintended pregnancy prevention – providing access to consumable, unbiased pregnancy prevention resources.
The application deadline is 5 p.m. Jan. 31.
For more information about the proposal requirements, eligibility criteria and application process: austincf.org/womens-fund-grantmaking.
Courtesy of the Austin Community Foundation
GEORGETOWN
Arts board approves grants
The Georgetown Arts and Culture Board approved $9,284 in grants in January.
The grants were given to local arts and culture groups to help with funding programming that includes visual art, music and performance art.
Recipients include the Austin Civic Orchestra Society, with $4,784 for Paint to Music at the Klett Performing Arts Center; Texas Bach Festival Inc. with $4,000 for the Texas Bach Festival 2022; and Full Circle with $500 for Full Circle: Speaker Series for Creatives.
The next grant cycle will accept proposals June 1-30 for events and programs occurring from Oct. 1 through March 31, 2023.
For more information: arts.georgetown.org.
From news reports
NORTHWEST AUSTIN
Orchestras collaborate at high school
Members of the Austin Symphony Orchestra and students of Lake Travis High School will perform together at "A Night with the Austin Symphony Orchestra” at 7 p.m. March 26 at the Lake Travis Performing Arts Center, 3324 RM 620 South.
The night will begin with a performance by members of the ASO with selections by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Francis Poulenc and Johann Strauss.
Over three-dozen high school orchestra and band students will perform after the intermission. The night will crescendo to a collaborative performance with the ASO and LTHS musicians featuring “Romeo and Juliet Overture” by Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky.
Ticket cost: $15-$50. For tickets: ltisdschools.org/finearts. For more information: lakeway-tx.gov.
From news reports
This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Women’s Fund plans to award 25 general operating grants
