Resources for Individuals

Emergency Funds for Artists/Creative Entrepreneurs/Individual Arts Administrators:

Artist Relief will distribute $5,000 grants to artists facing dire financial emergencies. A coalition of national arts grantmakers have come together to create this emergency initiative to offer financial and informational resources to artists across the United States.

The NDN Collective’s COVID-19 Response Project is designed to provide rapid response resources to Indigenous communities. The Artist and Entrepreneur Fund will provide grants of up to $5,000 to ease these current hardships in this time of economic uncertainty. Deadline: May 29

Chippewa Valley Artist Relief Fund is currently distributing funding for artists/creatives living in the Chippewa Valley.

Milwaukee Artist Resource Network announces the MARN COVID-19 Relief Fund. All active MARN members, who contribute on any level to our creative economy, are encouraged to apply for this one-time, unrestricted $250 micro-grant.

Amazing crowd sourced google spread sheet of Coronavirus 2020 Artist Relief Funds, thanks to CERF+

Actors Fund is going beyond actors now.
Arts Administrators of Color Network set up a GoFundMe campaign for BIPOC artists and administrators.
WomenArts has a fund roundup on their website.
Dramatists Guild Foundation launches relief fund supporting individual playwrights, com posers, lyricists, and bookwriters.
EqualSound launches relief fund supporting musicians who have lost gigs due to the pendemic.
Springboard for the Arts has several resources and relief funds.
Rauschenberg announced an Medical Emergency grant program for artists.
Musicians Foundation is accepting aid applications.
CERF+ Artist Safety Net offers emergency resources to established artists working in a craft discipline. The CERF+’s Craft + Maker Community Facebook Group is a mutual aid page for sharing tips and information to support each other during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Small Business 20/20 - support for small businesses and micro-enterprises adversely economically impacted by the COVID-19 Virus.
MusiCares Relief Fund offers basic living assistance (rent or mortgage) for music industry professionals.
Stratera offers an Emergency Response Directory.
CovertKit launches the Creator Fund to assist with medical expenses, groceries, childcare, and rent or mortgage for active creators.
The Soze Foundation launches the Artist + Activist Relief Fund.
The New Music Solidarity Fund helps new/creative/improvised music freelancers whose livelihood has been threatened as a result of performances which have been canceled.
The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC) has created the Actos de Confianza micro-grant initiative, $500 micro-grants to support artists and arts administrators whose work has been adversely impacted by COVID-19.

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has created a temporary fund to meet the needs of experimental artists who have been impacted by the economic fallout from postponed or canceled performances and exhibitions.