For FM Metro arts nonprofits to help cover unexpected expenses directly resulting from performance/event cancellations related to Coronavirus/COVID-19.
See inside for more details on what the fund does and doesn't cover.
In the short term in the form of a $200 emergency relief stipend.
In the longer term in the form of free programs, resources, and support for artists to pursue sustainable economic opportunities through this time of crisis.
The Artists’ Fellowship provides emergency aid to professional fine artists and their families in times of sickness, natural disaster, bereavement or unexpected extreme hardship
Provide immediate resources to full-time blues musicians whose revenue streams have been severely diminished by the current coronavirus pandemic, intended to assist primarily with immediate essential needs such as food, rent/mortgage, utilities, phone and car payments.
Medical insurance premiums will also be considered.
Provides emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists and bookwriters in dire need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness.
Includes muscician/composers, novelist/nonfiction/fiction writers, screenwriters, actor or performace artist, journalist, director.
Temporary funding to meet the needs of experimental artists who have been impacted by the economic fallout from postponed or canceled performances and exhibitions.
See eligibility requirements for comtemporary artists.
PEN America will distribute grants of $500 to $1,000 based on applications that demonstrate an inability to meet an acute financial need, especially one resulting from the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Funds raised will go towards medical expenses, lodging, clothing, food and other vital living expenses to those impacted due to sickness or loss of work
One-time grant for those unable to pay for basic living expenses like food, housing or health care
Funds are available to union and non-union workers in entertainment and the performing arts.
Must have entertainment industry earnings over $6,500 for three out of the last five years. Income from teaching does not qualify. Dancers must was document three years of recent dance earnings of at least $2,000 a year.
The fund is designed to provide grants to Indigenous artists and entrepreneurs who have been economically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Fund will provide grants of up to $5,000 to ease these current hardships in this time of economic uncertainty.
All businesses under 500 employees, including both registered and unregistered businesses, self-employed businesses and independent contractors, and consultants.
