ACTORS/FILM INDUSTRY/THEATER:

The Motion Picture and Television Fund
The Wasserman Campus 23388 Mulholland Drive Woodland Hills, CA 91364
Phone: 323-634-3888 (Toll free: 855-760-6783)

Email: Send Email
Website: https://www.mptf.com/help

The Actors Fund
Email:
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Website: https://actorsfund.org/eastern-region-disaster-assistance-application

“The Actors Fund is a national human services organization that helps all professionals in performing arts and entertainment.” They offer an Entertainment Assistance Program that has an emergency financial assistance component for basic living expenses.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts
820 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10014 Phone: 212-807-7077 Fax: 212-807-7177
Email:
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Website: http://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grants/emergency-grants

MUSICIANS:

The American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) Relief Fund provides support and temporary financial assistance to members who are in need. AGMA contracts with The Actors Fund to administer this program nationally as well as to provide comprehensive social services.

Grande Ole Opry Trust Fund, Inc.

Grand Ole Opry Customer Service 2804 Opryland Drive
Nashville, TN 37214
Phone: 615-871-6779 (Toll free: 800-733-6779)

Website: http://www.opry.com/trustfund
The Opry Trust Fund provides qualified individuals with financial assistance in times of “extraordinary need, emergency or catastrophe.” Qualified individuals include anyone who has been “employed full-time in some facet of the country music industry (i.e. performer, songwriter, publisher, radio, session musician, etc.).”

MusiCares Foundation

MusiCares South Region 1904 Wedgewood Ave.
Nashville, TN 37212
Phone: 615-327-0050 (Toll-free Help Line: 1-877-626-2748)
Fax: 615-327-0876
Website: https://www.grammy.com/musicares/get-help
MusiCares provides a “safety net of critical assistance for music people” struggling with financial, medical, or personal crises.

Musicians Foundation, Inc. 875 Sixth Avenue, Suite 2303 New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-239-9137 Fax: 212-239-9139
Email:
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Website: http://www.musiciansfoundation.org/apply/
The Musicians Foundation helps professional musicians by providing “crisis relief to musicians in the wake of unexpected hardship or natural disaster.”

Music Maker Relief Foundation
P.O. Box 1358 Hillsborough, NC 27278 Phone: 919-643-2456 Fax: 888-238-8592
Email:
Send Email (general information)
Website: http://www.musicmaker.org/programs/musician-sustenance/
The Music Maker Relief Foundation offers a Musician Sustenance program that includes an emergency needs funding program for artists facing an unexpected situation such as theft, illness, or natural disaster. The program is only available for musicians over the age of 55 and who have a yearly income of less than $18,000.

Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc. Emergency Grant
380 West Broadway New York, NY 10012 Phone: 212-226-0581 Fax: 212-274-1476
Website: https://www.gottliebfoundation.org/emergency-grant
Award amount: Max: $15,000; Typical: $5,000
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc. has an Emergency Grant program that is intended to provide qualified artists with one-time interim financial assistance in the event of an unforeseen, catastrophic event for which they lack the resources to manage. Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate that they have been working in a mature phase of their art for at least ten years.

Other Disciplines

Artists’ Fellowship, Inc.
47 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212-255-7740 ext. 216 for Artist’s Fellowship Email:
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Website: http://www.artistsfellowship.org/about.html

“The Artists’ Fellowship, Inc. is a private, charitable foundation that assists professional fine artists (painters, graphic artists, printmakers, sculptors) and their families in times of emergency, disability, or bereavement.”

Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+)
P.O. Box 838 Montpelier, VT 05601 (Mailing address) Phone: 802-229-2306 Fax: 802-223-6484
Email:
Send Email Website: http://craftemergency.org/
CERF+ provides emergency relief assistance in the form of small grants, no-interest loans, access to resources, waivers and discounts on booth fees, and donations of craft supplies and equipment for professional craft artists. They also provide information on other emergency resources for artists of any discipline and operate Studio Protector, an emergency guide for artists.

Creative Capital: The Arts Writers Grant Program
15 Maiden Lane, 18th Fl.
New York, NY 10038
212-598-9900 
Send Email
Website: creative-capital.org

“The Arts Writers Grant Program was founded in 2006 to recognize the precarious situation of arts writers, and their indispensable contribution to a vital artistic culture.”

Foundation for Contemporary Arts
820 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10014 Phone: 212-807-7077 Fax: 212-807-7177
Email:
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Website: http://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/grants/emergency-grants
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts offers an Emergency Grant program for visual and performing artists who have sudden opportunities to publically present work without enough time to seek other funding or “incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses” for works that are almost completed and have showing dates.

Joan Mitchell Foundation
545 West 25th Street, 15th Floor New York 10001
Phone: 212-524-0100
Email:
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Website: http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/artist-programs/artist-grants/emergency
The Joan Mitchell Foundation offers an Emergency Grant Program for US-based visual artists in the mediums of painting, sculpture, and/or drawing who have been severely impacted by a natural or man-made disaster of community-wide impact.

Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
863 Park Avenue New York, NY 10075 Phone: 212-517-5400 Fax: 212-288-2836
Email:
Send Email (general) or
Send Email (grant-related)
Website: https://pkf.org/apply/
“The Pollock-Krasner Foundation’s dual criteria for grants are recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both.”

PEN American
588 Broadway, Suite 303 New York, NY 10012 Phone: 212-334-1660 Fax: 212-334-2181
Email:
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Website: https://pen.org/writers-emergency-fund
Award: Max: $2,000

PEN American administers two emergency funds: the PEN Writers’ Emergency Fund and the PEN Fund for Writers and Editors with HIV/AIDS.

Writers Emergency Assistance Fund
Phone: 212-997-0947
Website: http://www.asja.org/for-writers/weaf/

ASJA
355 Lexington Avenue, 15th Floor New York, NY 10017

The Writers Emergency Assistance Fund (formerly the Llewellyn Miller Fund) is administered through the ASJA Charitable Trust, which has 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. Its mission is to help established freelance writers across the country who, because of “advanced age, illness, disability, a natural disaster, or an extraordinary professional crisis are unable to work.” A writer does not need to be a member of ASJA to qualify for a grant but must have “past professional freelance nonfiction writing over a sustained period of years.”