*** Emergency Aid for Creatives ***
For those affected by Hurricane Milton + Helene or are in General Distress. Funds for Writers, Craft Artists, Professional Dancers, Choreographers, Film Makers + More
Hey Writer Friends,
I hope you’ll pardon the additional newsletter this month.
With all the folks that have been affected by recent hurricanes or are in general distress, I wanted to do my part in sharing resources.
This list will live in the archives so folks can have access at all times
This list will be updated as I come across additional resources
The November Opportunity List will be in your inboxes on the 1st. I’m still compiling the list, but so far there are some wonderful scholarships, fellowships, anthologies as well as calls for essays and publication.
As always, thank you for being here!
-K
*** US BASED ***
Writers Emergency Assistance Fund
WEAF offers grants to professional freelance writers who, because of illness, disability, natural disaster, or extraordinary professional crisis, are unable to work.
you must be an established nonfiction freelance writer with clips in national publications and/or more than one book with a traditional publisher.
Compensation: $25,000, which is meant to cover 4-6 months of living expenses, and the money is unrestricted—you can use it to cover living expenses and other project-related fees.
https://www.asja.org/what-we-do/weaf/weaf-application/
Authors League Fund
The Authors League Fund helps authors, graphic novelists, journalists, critics, essayists, poets, short story writers, dramatists, and librettists.
An emergency fund providing non-taxable charitable support. They help in times of urgent need, when a writer cannot afford to pay for necessities.
This fund has professional guidelines.
For example: They assist authors, including graphic novelists, with at least one book published by a traditional publisher. Authors with multiple titles are given priority.
Compensation: Based on Need
Professional Guidelines + Submissions: HERE
Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Emergency Performing Artist Grants
This active, multi-disciplinary program offers immediate, project-based assistance to artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad.
The Emergency Grants panel will consider funding last minute expenses that are necessary for a project's completion and public presentation.
Compensation: Up to $3,000
Submissions Due: Dec 9
Guidelines: HERE
Submissions: HERE
Dramatists Guild Foundation
FY24 Bridge Grant
A national charity that fuels the future of American theater by supporting the writers who create it. DGF fosters playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists at all stages of their careers
DGF serves all dramatists based in the United States, regardless of their immigration status.
Compensation: Up to 20,000
Application Due: Dec 13
https://dramatistsguildfoundation.submittable.com/submit
Dramatists Guild Foundation
Crisis Emergency Relief Grant
A national charity that fuels the future of American theater by supporting the writers who create it. DGF fosters playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists at all stages of their careers
DGF serves all dramatists based in the United States, regardless of their immigration status.
Compensation: Up to 20,000
Application Due: Dec 13
https://dramatistsguildfoundation.submittable.com/submit
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants Cycle 26
Applications Due by 5:00 PM ET October 25.
Eligibility: Applicants may apply for funds for emergency mental health, medical or dental treatment, whether related to the impacts of Hurricanes Helene or Milton or not.
**In this program, an emergency is a one-time, unexpected, non-chronic condition as a result of illness, violence, an accident or triggering event, or sudden medical event, that requires treatment to ensure your health or life, and which without treatment has extreme impact on your daily life and ability to carry out/return to your creative practice.**
Only artists creating work in visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts or choreography may apply to this program. The applicant must be the maker of the creative work (assistant producers, television producers, television/film performers and crew members, dance performers, et al are not eligible)
To request an accommodation or assistance in applying, please email emergencyfunds@nyfa.org or call 212-366-6900 ext. 239.
Compensation: One-time grants of up to $5,000
Guidelines + Compensation: HERE
Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants Cycle 15
Applications Due: 5:00 PM ET November 4.
This program provides one-time grants to professional dancers in need, who are in dire financial emergency.
You must demonstrate an urgent and critical need for emergency support in your application
You must live in the United States
Eligible applicants: who have lost work due to circumstances outside of their control, including the impacts of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, may apply for funds for essential expenses.
To request an accommodation or assistance in applying, please email emergencyfunds@nyfa.org or call 212-366-6900 ext. 239.
Compensation: One-time grants of up to $3,000
Guidelines + Applications: HERE
If you’re seeing this after the application closes:
*Artists residing in any county which has received a FEMA Emergency or Disaster Declaration related to Hurricane Helene are eligible. This is a pilot extension. If you have experienced another recent Presidentially-declared disaster that prevented you from applying by our deadline, please contact us at emergencyfunds@nyfa.org or 212.366.6900 x 239.
CERF+
Craft Artists Emergency Relief Grant
To qualify for an Emergency Relief Grant, applicants need to be craft artists who are 18 years of age or older. They must have been living and working in the U.S. or U.S. Territories for the past two years.
Additionally, they should not have received an Emergency Relief Grant in the previous year or exceeded the maximum lifetime limit of 4 grants.
Compensation: CERF+ offers $3,000 Emergency Relief Grants to craft artists who experienced a recent and substantially disruptive emergency or disaster.
Applications: HERE