COVID Funding and Financial Aid Options
- CERF+ COVID-19 Relief Fund: This fund provides financial assistance to professional artists working in craft disciplines who are facing dire circumstances from the COVID-19 crisis:
https://cerfplus.org/cerf-covid-19-relief-grant/?org=808&lvl=100&ite=2242&lea=2184814&ctr=0&par=1&trk= - Borealis Philanthropy: This fund provides financial resources to trans-led organizations and transgender, gender nonconforming, and non-binary communities who are organizing in response to the COVID-19 crisis:
https://borealisphilanthropy.org/grantmaking/fund-for-trans-generations/covid-19-collective-fund-for-trans-communities/ - The NDN Collective’s COVID-19 Response Project: This project is designed to provide immediate relief to some of the most underserved communities in the country, including distributing resources to frontline organizations, Tribes and individuals, and artists and entrepreneurs who have suffered the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic:
https://ndncollective.org/covid-19/ - Center for Craft’s Craft Future Fund: A new grant supporting creative responses to COVID-19 for craft communities:
https://www.centerforcraft.org/news/center-for-craft-introduces-craft-futures-fund - SAA Foundation’s Archival Workers Emergency Fund: A fund to provide financial assistance for archival workers experiencing financial hardship due to the COVID-19 crises:
https://awefund.wordpress.com/ - The Lewis Prize for Music’s COVID-19 Community Response Fund: The Lewis Prize for Music is establishing a one million dollars COVID-19 Community Response Fund which will distribute over 20 grants of $25,000–$50,000 to responsive and adaptive Creative Youth Development (CYD) music programs:
https://app.getacceptd.com/lewisprize - National Endowment for the Humanities’ CARES Act: Cultural Organization: NEH announced new grant guidelines designed to rapidly distribute CARES Act funding to cultural nonprofits affected by the coronavirus pandemic. This new funding opportunity will provide grants of up to $300,000 to sustain humanities organizations and preserve jobs in the cultural sector:
https://www.neh.gov/program/neh-cares-cultural-organizations - CATCH’s Folk Arts COVID-19 Relief Fund: A consortium of organizations led by the Center for Art, Tradition, and Cultural Heritage (CATCH) and including City Lore, the Center for Traditional Music and Dance (CTMD), Bronx Music Heritage Center (BMHC), Mind Builders Creative Arts Center, Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders, and the Folk Arts Program of the Brooklyn Arts Council have established The Folk Arts Relief Fund for New York City; donate here:
https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/folk-arts-relief-fund - Art is Alive: A solidarity effort aimed at providing resources, spreading awareness, and building connectedness within the artistic and creative freelance communities impacted by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic:
https://www.artliveson.com/about - Music COVID Relief: A resource brought to you from the partners of the U.S. Music Community to help music professionals access information and applications to receive benefits made available by the CARES Act:
https://musiccovidrelief.com/ - Artplace’s America’s National Endowment for the Arts CARES Act Funding Webinar: Video recording of webinar that present information about the funding that the NEA received through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act:
https://www.artplaceamerica.org/blog/national-endowment-arts-cares-act-funding-webinar - Artist Relief’s Grants: Artist Relief will distribute $5,000 in grants to artists facing dire financial emergencies due to the COVID-19 pandemic
https://www.artistrelief.org/ - National Endowment for the Arts Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act: The National Endowment for the Arts will award funds to nonprofit arts organizations to alleviate financial distress that was a result of forced closure of their operations due to the outbreak of COVID-19. This aid is for the organization and its employees
https://www.arts.gov/grants-organizations/CARES/grant-program-description - Wbur’s List of Grants and Resources for Artists and Nonprofits:
https://www.wbur.org/artery/2020/03/24/grants-funds-resources-artists-nonprofits-covid-19-coronavirus - The American Folklore Society’s Consultancy and Professional Development Program:
https://www.afsnet.org/page/ConsProfDev - Oral History Association’s Emerging Crises Oral History Research Fund: Guidelines to apply for grants up to $4,000 to conduct oral history research during this worldwide crises
https://www.oralhistory.org/award/emerging-crisis-research-fund/ - Americans for the Arts and the Arts Action Fund: A petition to request funds to be distributed through the NEA to help offset the losses of the nonprofit arts industry and to expand the eligibility through additional federal programs to ensure artists, entrepreneurs, and small business in the creative economy can utilize business interruption relief
https://www.artsactionfund.org/action-center
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