We here at Front Row Center miss you all like crazy – and if you are in need, or would like to make a contribution to help artists who are definitely in need – here are some terrific organizations.

Thanks to Carol Tambor for this list

GENERAL SUPPORT FOR ARTISTS:

 

  • The Actors Fund:

 

https://actorsfund.org/workshops

 

  • Gig cancellations due to Coronavirus: Survival Tips for Freelancers:

 

https://www.theatreartlife.com/management/coronavirus-gig-cancellations/?fbclid=IwAR2sjBtmFGCObJQcMR72IVCqXWKMJQWIBJsw2HIAv-acVuE_VcD–YO0iVg

 

  • Actors’ Guild Resources for Performers:

 

“If you are a qualified performer in need of assistance, please email our executive director at karen@actorsguild.org.”

    • (Eligibility:A.  Proof of status as a professional performing artist: 
    •  Proof of an ongoing and sustained professional career:
    • Documentation of a minimum of 5 consecutive years of earnings as a professional performing artist, of which at least 3 separate years must present annual earnings of at least $5,000.
    • If a career of 10 or more cumulative years can be documented, 5 of those years must present earnings of at least $5,000.
    • A career of 20 or more cumulative years must present earnings of $5,000 or more in 10 of those years.
    • If an individual is disabled or retired, earnings during the final 5 years of a career before retirement or disability may be considered. Performers who are vested and receiving performing arts union pensions are also eligible. 
  • Actors Pantry: 

https://www.actorsguild.org/actors-pantry.html

GRANTS FOR ARTISTS:

 

  • Rauschenberg Emergency Grants

 

https://www.nyfa.org/Content/Show/Rauschenberg-Emergency-Grants

Open to visual and media artists and choreographers. If you aren’t sure if your artistic discipline fits within these guidelines, please contact emergencyfunds@nyfa.org.

  • Open to artists who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents in the United States, District of Columbia, or U.S. Territories.
  • Applicants must demonstrate current and ongoing activity in artistic discipline/s.
  • Applicants cannot be enrolled in any degree-seeking program.
  • Up to $5,000 cash grant

 

  • Writers’ Emergency Fund: 

https://pen.org/writers-emergency-fund/

Quick recap of guidelines:

  • Full-length play, performed in a theater of over 250 seats by a professional theater company
  • Editors/agents who have been professional for the last five years
  • Ten or more essays, short stories, or poems in literary anthologies or journals in the last two year
  • At least one book by a reputable publishing company
  • Employment as a full-time journalist, columnist, or critic by a reputable periodical OR 12+ literary reviews in a nationally recognized print periodical in the last two years

 

 

  • Artist Relief Tree:

 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScH1U4u4m0-33NySVZrvkrbxbJE_2ZRxeJAxHlboQGNGqEfkA/viewform

  • JOUST App:

https://get.joust.com/covid-19-cancellation

Helps with unpaid invoices and paying bills

 

  • Assistance for Small Businesses with lost business due to COVID

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/sbs/businesses/covid19-business-outreach.page

 

  • Dramatists Guild Foundation – Emergency grants for writers:

https://dgf.org/programs/grants/grants-for-writers/?fbclid=IwAR0BW1rjchfgjIVhbWZ-Mjiq9Y-RE9GpFKxNJpwuD952d31f2qERb2_ZAJ0

 

  • Indie Theater Fund COVID19 Emergency Grant

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecCdEVyLuziVtMUSb9x8VeMle7bckYtwI880C2Hg26OCJ5_g/viewform

 

  • New York Foundation for the Arts:

 

https://www.nyfa.org/Content/Show/Emergency%20Grants?fbclid=IwAR0pyL4HDhaDoNGopoZlOGhYGOLVUZF-xT6yQN2hL0hrUO_R2wS9QRpKX

List of available grants, by discipline

 

  • A comprehensive list of several grants available:

https://www.stevegiovinco.com/complete-list-of-emergency-fundsgrant-for-visual-artists/

 

  • Some more great resources for grants, separated by discipline:

 

https://www.womenarts.org/funding-resources/emergencyfunds/#EmergencyAll

 

IF YOU CAN GIVE:

 

  • Artist Relief Tree (ART):

https://www.facebook.com/donate/1080011789032749/

  • NYC Low-Income Artist/Freelancer Relief Fund

 

https://www.gofundme.com/f/nyc-lowincome-artistfreelancer-relief-fund?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1

 

 

  • Indie Theater Relief Fund:

 

https://www.facebook.com/donate/509591526599992/509591546599990/

 

 

  • I Lost My Gig

 

https://www.ilostmygig.com/

Testimonials for artists in Austin who lost their work due to COVID; provided with various methods of donating directly to certain artists