Visit Mason City*
AddressVisit Mason City
2021 Fourth Street Southwest
Mason City, IA 50401
Details
Maximum Grant Amount$1,000
Description
Visit Mason City is accepting grant applications to support events, attractions, conventions, tournaments and other initiatives with tourism potential.
Target markets are visitors from outside a 90-mile radius. Grants are limited to a maximum of 50% of eligible costs or $1,000 (whichever is lowest) with a required cash match of at least 50%. This is a reimbursement grant.
Eligible Projects and Use of Funding
- Design, production, and placement costs for marketing that targets visitors who live outside a 90-mile radius of Mason City (brochures, flyers, posters, direct mail, registration materials, e-blasts, websites, print ads, radio ads, television ads, online ads, social media ads/boosted posts, etc.)
- Purchase of marketing lists, search engine marketing ad words, google ad words, etc. targeting visitors who live outside a 90-mile radius of Mason City.
- Off-site signage (billboard, wayfinding, trailblaze) targeting visitors who live outside a 90-mile radius of Mason City.
- Shuttle service for tours within Mason City/Clear Lake, transportation between convention facilities used by visitors who live outside a 90-mile radius of Mason City.
- Welcome reception food (appetizers/ hors d’oeuvres) and non-alcoholic beverages for visitors who live outside a 90-mile radius of Mason City.
- Fees must be payable to a third-party vendor. In-kind fees are not eligible.
- Eligible projects must be completed October 1, 2022-September 30, 2023.
- Projects that receive funding from the FY22 Regional Sports Authority District program are not eligible.
Deadlines
Round1: 4 PM on September 30, 2022 for marketing projects completed October 1, 2022-September 30, 2023
Round 2: 4 PM on January 27, 2023 for marketing projects completed March 1, 2023-September 30, 2023
Grant information was last reviewed by our staff on 1/30/2023 - placed in September for next expected deadline.
Application Link
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