CERF+ has an emergency assistance program that includes grants and/or brokered assistance, such as booth fee waivers and discounts or donations on supplies and equipment to artists facing recent, career threatening emergency, such as an illness, accident, fire or natural disaster. CERF+ also has a wide variety of emergency resources for artists. (Vermont)
The Artists’ Fellowship, Inc. is a private, charitable foundation that “assists professional fine artists (painters, graphic artists, printmakers, sculptors) and their families in times of emergency, disability, or bereavement.” (New York)
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc. has an Emergency Grant program that is intended to provide qualified artists with one-time interim financial assistance in the event of an unforeseen, catastrophic event. (New York)
Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants are one-time grants of up to $5,000 to professional dancers who have experienced dire financial emergencies due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences, including lack or imminent endangerment of essentials such as housing, medicine/healthcare, utilities, and food.
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers an Emergency Grant program for performing artists who have sudden opportunities to publicly present work without enough time to seek other funding or “incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses” for works that are almost completed and have showing dates. (New York)
The Actors Fund also offers an Entertainment Assistance Program, which functions as an entryway and guide through The Fund’s many programs when facing personal or work-related problems. It is also a conduit for emergency financial assistance in times of pressing need or in response to catastrophic events. The Fund also offers a Dancers Resources Program […]
The Writers Emergency Assistance Fund helps established freelance writers across the country who, because of “advanced age, illness, disability, a natural disaster, or an extraordinary professional crisis are unable to work.” (New York)
PEN American administers two emergency funds: the PEN Writers’ Emergency Fund and the PEN Fund for Writers and Editors with HIV/AIDS. (New York)
Two individual grants: the Artist Equity Grant provides up to $4,000 to individual artists who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, People with Disabilities, People 65+, Military Veterans, and/or Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual/Agender, Two-Spirit (LGBTQIA2+); and the Artist Project Grant, that provides funding up to $4,000 to any adult artists, in any […]
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