VisitGainesville, the official tourism marketing organization for Alachua County, is offering their 2009 Fall Conference Grant Program to qualified meeting planners who conduct their meetings or conferences in Gainesville/Alachua County. Up to $75,000 in grant funding is available during this grant cycle.
To qualify, meeting professionals must complete the grant application, which will be available on-line in mid-August at: www.visitgainesville.com/grants and satisfy a number of criteria including confirming that their meeting or event produced hotel room nights in Gainesville/Alachua County between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2012. Individual grants cap at $10,000 and are available to corporate, association, or non-profit, public or privately-funded planners.
Applications may only be submitted during the official grant cycle which opens Tuesday, Sept. 1 and with the deadline on Wednesday, Sept. 30 no later than 4 p.m. and be delivered to the VisitGainesville office located at 30 East University Avenue in Downtown Gainesville. The VisitGainesville offices are open Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m.- 5 p.m. All qualified applications will be reviewed by the County’s nine-member Tourist Development Council (TDC) in October, with recipients announced at the following month’s TDC meeting.
"The workshop is the perfect forum to learn details about the Grant program and to make the application process easier and more accurate. Though not required to attend, it can be very helpful for a meeting planner to understand the entire grant process," said Nancy Fischer, CMP, VisitGainesville’s Director of Sales. For additional information, planners may contact Nancy Fischer (e-mail: nfischer@visitgainesville.com or John Pricher (jop@visitgainesville.com) at the Gainesville VCB at (352) 374-5260 or toll-free at (866)778-5002.
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Friday, September 18, 2009
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