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GRANT INFORMATION: ArtistRelief.org: a new initiative uniting several national funders to provide $5,000 grants to artists. We also encourage you to respond to The COVID-19 Impact Survey for Artists and Creative Workers, launched by Americans for the Arts, to help gather vital information on how COVID-19 is affecting the livelihood of artists, creative workers, teaching artists and creative entrepreneurs. Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs List: Below find a meaningful message from Xavier and funding opportunities and useful resources for individual artists and creative workers. The Chairman of our Cultural Affairs Council, Xavier Cortada, wanted me to share this message with you: "We will not allow our artists to be forgotten in the midst of this devastating health crisis. Now more than ever we must remember that artists are the guiding force in creating and sustaining our great cultural life. Our Council will continue to look for ways to support you and your work. We know that artists are the leaders who will help define what life after the pandemic will look, sound and feel like for all of us." Stay safer at home and be well! CITY OF MIAMI INFORMATION: The Actors Fund provides services and financial support to entertainment professionals facing personal or work-related problems. Visit website ACTORSFUND.ORG. Artist Relief is an emergency, non-restricted fund that will grant $5,000 to individual artists facing financial hardship. A coalition of national arts grantmakers has come together to create this emergency initiative for artists across the United States. In addition, Artist Relief is partnering with Americans for the Arts to conduct a survey of the impact of COVID-19 on artists: TAKE THE SURVEY. American Documentary Artist Emergency Fund: This Emergency Fund provides grants up to $500 for basic needs including food, health and insurance premiums for artists that demonstrate a professional relationship to documentary filmmaking. Visit website AMDOC.ORG. CERF+ Emergency Relief Fund: Artists who have suffered from a career threatening emergency, (illness, accident, fire or natural disaster), can apply for funding. CERF+ lists COVID-19 resources. Visit website CERFPLUS.ORG. Dramatists Guild Foundation: This fund provides emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and bookwriters in need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness. Visit website DGF.ORG. The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund: A temporary fund for experimental artists. The Foundation will disburse $1,500 grants to artists who have had performances or exhibitions have been impacted by COVID-19 virus.Visit website FOUNDATIONFORCONTEMPORARYARTS.ORG. Kincade Family Foundation Emergency Grant for Curators: The program will provide one (1) one-time grant of up to $5,000 for unexpected emergencies related to the COVID-19 pandemic. DEADLINE: Sunday, April 12, 2020. Independent Sector: How to Apply for Relief Funds The Independent Sector has developed an easy-to-use tool to help individuals and nonprofits understand the CARES Act eligibility criteria, timelines, and application information. Visit website INDEPENDENTSECTOR.ORG. PEN America Writers’ Emergency Fund: PEN America will distribute grants of $500 to $1,000 to writers that demonstrate an inability to meet an acute financial need, especially one resulting from the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak. Visit website PEN.ORG. The Photographer Fund: FORMAT created the Photographer Fund to help independent photographers with up to $500 per artist who are facing unprecedented financial hardships in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak stay on their feet. Visit website FORMAT.COM. The Rauschenberg Emergency Grants: The New York Foundation for the Arts and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation have teamed up to help artists with medical expenses. The Rauschenberg Emergency Grants will provide visual artists, media artists, and choreographers one-time grants of up to $5,000 to cover expenses caused by one-time, unexpected medical or dental emergencies. Visit website NYFA.ORG. The Recording Academy - MusiCares: The Recording Academy and its charitable foundation MusiCares have established the COVID-19 Relief Fund to help people in the music industry affected by the coronavirus. Local Grants for Artists and Organizations that Support Artists. Visit website GRAMMY.COM. Oolite Arts Launches Relief Fund for COVID-19 for Miami-based Artists: The Oolite Arts Relief Fund for COVID-19 offers up to $500 to cover lost income. Thanks to the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Family Foundation, Oolite Arts' own increased commitment and individual donors, more than $100,000 is available to artists through the fund. Visit website OOLITEARTS.ORG. Locust Projects and The Warhol Foundation: The Warhol Foundation will provide funds to Miami-based artists who have been affected by COVID-19 through a re-granting program managed by Locust Projects. The Miami Artist Relief Fund will offer 40 individual grants of $1,500 each for Miami visual artists. Details on how to apply will be available by April 15, 2020. Visit website LOCUSTPROJECTS.ORG. Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs - Art in Public Places: Art in Public Places promotes collaboration and creative art projects that improve the visual quality of public spaces. These public art installations transform public spaces from ordinary civic areas to sites that can lift the spirit and connect with the community. Calls to artists are available at the website MIAMIDADEPUBLICART.ORG. United Way of Miami-Dade - The Miami Pandemic Response Fund: United Way of Miami-Dade and the Miami Herald/el Nuevo Herald, joined by a collaboration of funders, have activated Operation Helping Hands and the Miami Pandemic Response Fund to provide seed funding of $500,000 to aid families, small businesses and nonprofit organizations through a network of nonprofit partners. Details available through the website UNITEDWAY.ORG. The Community Recovery Fund for Nonprofit Organizations - Coronavirus (COVID-19): The Miami Foundation established The Community Recovery Fund providing critical help to Miami-Dade nonprofits, including arts, culture and humanities organizations. The Miami Foundation has seeded the Fund with a $300,000 contribution. The Knight Foundation has added $250,000 to the Fund. For more information, visit MIAMIFOUNDATION.ORG. John S. and James L. Knight Foundation: The Knight Foundation is contributing a total of $700,000 to assist nonprofit organizations: $450,000 to The United Way Miami Pandemic Response Fund and $250,000 to support The Miami Foundation Community Recovery Fund. The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation / Related Philanthropic Foundation: The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation has contributed $200,000 to The Miami Foundation Community Recovery Fund to help support arts and cultural organizations and the Related Philanthropic Foundation has donated $100,000 to The United Way Miami Pandemic Response Fund. Miami Arts Organizations - Resources for Individual Artists: A number of Miami organizations are offering contacts for resources available to help artists and organizations that serve artists. Here a few:
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