COVID-19 ARTIST RELIEF RESOURCES & FUNDING

In an effort to provide support to musicians, entrepreneurs, freelancers, and small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, we have compiled a list of resources and relief funds. Don't see a resource listed on here that may be valuable to others? Please email taylor@nicolericcardo.com so we can include it! 

Free Resources & Entertainment: 

In this time of social distancing and quarantine, many incredible organizations are opening up their video vaults for free viewing! Here are some places to catch incredible performances:

• Fluteevents.com: A comprehensive global calendar of concerts, masterclasses, workshops, courses, and more. If you are holding an event, feel free to share it on this calendar by clicking submit your event!

• This list of free upcoming live-streamed Classical music concerts!

• The Berlin Phil Digital Concert Hall: now FREE for 30 days!

• Digital Theatre

• Free Opera Streams via The Met

• Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

• Detroit Symphony Orchestra

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Educational:

• Accessible Teaching in the Time of COVID-19 

• Distance Learning Tips

• Resources for Moving Dance-Based Pedagogy Online 

• Remote Teaching Resources 

• Teaching Theatre Online: A Shift in Pedagogy Amidst Coronavirus Outbreak

• Resources for Teaching Online: Open Source Resources for Performance-Related Disciplines (Association for Theatre in Higher Education)

• Teaching Theatre Thru Remote Learning Facebook Group

• “Please do a bad job of putting your course online” (Rebecca Barrett-Fox)

• Resources for Moving Production Courses Online in Case of an Emergency

• Teaching Remote Music Lessons: The Best Services and Settings to Use (with step-by-step instructions) (Eric Heidbreder)

• Companies Offering Free or Discounted Educator Resources

• Free Online Music Theory Teaching Platform for Affected Schools (utheory.com)

• Video Library for Dance Educators

• Clark Hulings Fund ECampus

• Amplifier

• How To Host Music Lessons Online

• Teaching Music Online

• Financial Guide during Covid-19

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RELIEF FUNDS

Classical Musicians:

• Artist Relief Tree

• Equal Sound

• Early Musicians

• Musicians Foundation Emergency Fund

• Sweet Relief Musicians Fund​

• National Endowment for the Arts

• New Music Solidarity Fund

• MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund

• Sphinx Match Project

• Artist Relief

• Secret Walls

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Jazz & Bluegrass Musicians:

• Billboard State by State Music Industry COVID Resources

• Musicians Foundation

• Jazz Foundation

• International Bluegrass Music Association – Bluegrass Trust Fund

• The Blues Foundation: The Hart Fund

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Artists:

• Emergency Grants and Resources for Artists

• List of Funding Opportunities from 3Arts

• List of Emergency Funding Opportunities for Visual Artists

• Emergency Grants – Foundation for Contemporary Arts 

• Emergency Grants – New York Foundation for the Arts

• Emergency Grants – Rauschenberg Foundation 

• Emergency Relief Programs – Alliance of Artist Communities

• Emergency Grants – Haven Foundation

• Emergency Grants – Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant (visual arts)

• The Artists’ Fellowship

• Bagby Foundation

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Women & LGBTQ:

• List of Funding Opportunities from Women Arts 

• Women Photograph

• Funding for LGBTQ+ performers, administrators, and tip-based workers

• Queer Writers of Color
  

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Small Businesses:

• Convert Kit

• Disaster Loan Assistance

• Small Business Loan Administration

• New Orleans Business Alliance

• State of Massachusetts: Emergency capital up to $75,000 to Massachusetts-based businesses impacted by COVID-19 with under 50 full- and part-time employees, including nonprofits. 

• State of Michigan: Grants up to $10,000 (if you have less than 50 employees) and low-interest loans between $50,000 and $200,000 (if you have less than 100 employees)

• City of New York: Zero-interest loans of up to $75,000 for businesses with less than 100 employees. 40% of payroll costs covered for businesses with less than 5 employees.

• City of San Francisco: $10,000 for employee salaries and rent for businesses with less than 5 employees.

• City of Sacramento: Zero-interest loans of up to $25,000.

• City of Chicago: Low-interest loans up to $50,000 for businesses who’ve suffered more than 25% revenue decrease due to COVID-19 and have under 50 employees.

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Geographically Based Relief Funds:

• BOSTON: Theater Community Benevolent Fund

• BOSTON: Boston Singers Relief Fund 

• BOSTON: Boston Music Maker Relief Fund

• BOSTON: Boston Artist Relief Fund (City of Boston)

• CALIFORNIA: Employment Development Department

• WEST COAST: GoFundMe Supporting Performing Artists

• CHICAGO: Rent Assistance

• CHICAGO/ILLINOIS: For The People Collective

• CHICAGO: Chicago Theater Workers Relief Fund

• COLUMBUS, OH: GCAC

• KANSAS CITY, MO: ARTSKC

• LOS ANGELES: Hollywood Support Staff Relief Fund

• MINNESOTA: Springboard for the Arts Emergency Fund

• NORTH CAROLINA: NC Artist Relief Fund

• NORTH CAROLINA: Durham Artists Relief Fund

• NYC: Episcopal Actors’ Guild

• NYC: Emergency CASH Assistance through HRA

• NYC: Local 802 Emergency Relief

• NYC: Indie Theater Fund (give funds) and Indie Theater Fund Request Doc (ask for help) (theater artists and companies with budgets under $250K)

• NYC: Dance NYC Coronovirus Impact Survey

• NEW YORK: Max’s Kansas Project (musicians)

• NEW HAVEN, CT: New Haven Arts Council

• OKLAHOMA: Red Dirt Relief Fund (musicians)

• PITTSBURGH: Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council’s Artist Emergency Fund

• PORTLAND, OR: Portland Area Artist Relief

• SAN FRANCISCO, CA: COVID-19: Performing Arts Worker Relief Fund

• SEATTLE: Artist Relief Fund

• WASHINGTON, DC: Theatre Washington Emergency Fund, Taking Care

• WASHINGTON, DC: Black and non-white trans and gender-expansive people

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