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COVID-19 Aid, Assistance & Grants
beyond Washtenaw County
Creative Washtenaw appreciates the many sources collecting and contributing to this list - too many to recall and most are on the list! It is a testament to the nature of care, cooperation and working for the collective in the arts and creative industries that these sources are shared freely for the good of all.
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With gratitude to those aiding and assisting
Blues Musician Emergency Relief Fund - COVID-19 - Blues musicians
Broadcasters Foundation of America - Emergency Grant for Coronavirus Assistance - up to $1,000, radio and TV broadcasters
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS COVID Relief Fund
Carnegie Fund for Authors - writers: published authors
Center for Craft Futures - Unrestricted grants of $5,000 for craft-based education projects that seed resilience, foster community and amplify impact. Requests will be reviewed monthly through October 2020.
CERF+ Emergency Assistance - The Artist Safety net for craft artists, all artists- $3,000
Chorus America - Choruses and COVID-19
Common Field - COVID-19 Resources for the Artist Organization Field
Council of Michigan Foundations, The
Creative Capital - Arts resources during the COVID-19 Outbreak
Crosshatch Artist Emergency -$500, all artists, Northwest Lower Michigan
Cultural Advocacy Network of Michigan
Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA) (Moved to NADAC)
CultureSource COVID-19 Resource Page
Dramatists Guild COVID-19 Emergency Relief - $500 - $3,000, playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists, National
Event Safety Alliance Reopening Guide - Reopening Guide addresses health and sanitary issues that event and venue professionals need to consider in order to protect both patrons and workers. Since there is still insufficient testing, no contact tracing, and no vaccine against COVID-19, this guidance is particularly detailed.
Equal Sound (musicians) - $500 per cancelled gig, musicians, National
Facebook Small Business Grants Program
Film Festival Alliance - Webinars for film festival field navigating postponements and cancellations and archived recordings.
Financial Solidarity Mutual Aid Google Sheet
Financial Solidarity Spreadsheet - Covid-19 - all artists - requests up to $500 most likely to be funded
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants - $200 and $2,500 for contemporary & experimental visual and performing artists. They review applications once a month, so you can quickly take advantage of momentum or solve any budget errors.
GRAMMY - MusicCares® COVID-19 Relief Fund
Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Grant program - $5,000 - $15,000 for visual artists, painters, printmakers, & sculptors, Visual Artists: painters, printmakers, and sculptors, National
Grantmakers in the Arts - COVID-19 (Corona virus) and Arts Funding
Haven Foundation Emergency Grant (freelance professionals in the arts)
Hire Artists - Built by artists and for artists, hire artists connects buyers and supporters with experienced practitioners possessing decades of experience, for the purposes of online instruction or to help with creative and non-creative tasks.
Historical Society of Michigan
Hollywood Reporter Emergency Fund Roundup
I Lost My Theatre Gigs - a place to document lost gigs
IATSE International - COVID-19
Independent Sector - COVID -19
Institute for Museum & Library Services
International Lawyers for the Creative Industries
International Ticket Association
Japan Foundation New York Grants for Arts & Cultural Exchange
Jazz Coalition Commission Fund
Jazz Foundation Musicians Emergency Fund
Jazz Foundation of America - Providing financial assistance, resources and links to other partnerships for jazz artists.
Joan Mitchel Foundation / Emergency Resources for Visual Artists
Kinkade Family Foundation Emergency Grant for Curators
Lawyers for Good Government - Nationwide Small Business Legal Clinic Project
League of American Orchestras - Coronavirus resource page
Leveler: Peer to Peer Wealth Distribution
Lifetime Arts - Supporting Creative Aging Programming during COVID-19 Crisis
Live Nation Entertainment - Crew Nation Fund - $1,000, Crew, None
Mellon Foundation - Grants Database
Michigan Actors and Theatre Connections Hub (MATCH)
Michigan Alliance for Cultural Accessibility
Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs
Michigan Historic Preservation Network
Michigan Libraries Association
Michigan Non Profit Association
Michigan Small Business & Nonprofits Restart Program
Michigan Screenwriters Network
Michigan Youth Arts (website currently down)
Mission Asset Fund - COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants
Motion Picture & Television Fund - COVID-19 Relief
Music Covid Relief - a resource brought to you by partners in the U.S. Music Community to help music professionals access information and applications to receive benefits made available by the CARES Act (Phase III of the Coronavirus Stimulus bill signed into law March 27, 2020) and the "Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act" signed into law on April 24, 2020.
Music Health Alliance - COVID-19/Tornado Relief Grant - $250 per month/max $500, music professionals
Music Workers Alliance - Allies of NYC Artist Coalition, MWA is a collective of musicians and DJs fighting for reform, activism and artist financial support.
Musicians Foundation Emergency Fund - grants to U.S. musicians in any genre in a time of acute need.
NALAC | National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures - Arts Resources & Field Survey
National Alliance for Musical Theatre
National Arts Marketing Project
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
National Association of State Charity Officials
National Endowment for the Arts
National Performance Network - Statement and Resources
Newport Festival Musician Relief Fund - $300,musicians, (Rhode Island residents given preference)
New York Foundation for the Arts Emergency Resources
National Independent Talent Organization
National Independent Venue Association- NIVA's mission is to preserve and nurture the ecosystem of independent live music venues and promoters throughout the United States.
North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents
One Fair Wage Emergency Fund (service workers)
Passim Emergency Artist Relief Fund - $500, Musicians
PEN American Writers' Emergency Fund - $500 - 2,000, writers: authors, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, translators, and journalists
Photographer Fund, The - $500 for photographers facing financial difficulties during the outbreak.
Pinetop Perkins Foundation - Pinetop Assistance League for Elderly Musicians - $500, Blues musicians, 50+ years of age
Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund - $100-$500 for queer writers of color who are in need of financial assistance. The fund will make disbursements once per day.
Rauschenberg Foundation Emergency Grants Program - $5,000, visual and media artists & choreographers who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents in the United States, District of Columbia, or U.S. Territories.
Restaurant Workers Assistance Program
SAG-AFTRA Foundation: COVID Relief Fund
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, Inc. Flicker Fund
Shade Literary Arts Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund
Share & Receive / Amazon Wish lists (food, supplies, etc.)
Springboard for the Arts - Emergency Resources
Stage Directors and Choreographers Society - Emergency Assistance Fund
State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education - Arts Instructional Resources
Sweet Relief Musicians Fund - $400, Musicians and music industry workers, National
Theater for Young Audiences USA - Response to COVID-19 - TYA/USA is the leading national organization for the professional field of theatre for children and families
Third Wave Fund - This emergency grant provides financial assistance to painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation.
Twenty Summers Emergency Arts Fund - $500 for artists (visual artist, musician, actor, author, etc.) and $1,000 for arts orgs suffering from unexpected and unmanageable financial loss as a result of the COVID-19.
Visual Artists - List of Emergency Funding Opportunities
Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation
Women & Hollywood Crowdfunding Support (Film)
Women in the Arts & Media Coalition - List of Funding Opportunities
Working Artists and the Greater Economy - W.A.G.E. has introduced Guidelines for the Postponement or Cancellation of Work & Recommended Best Practice Protocols for Institutions and Funders.