Emergency Funding Resources for Artists & Culture Bearers
This page includes emergency resources that SEMAC has compiled to support individual artists and culture bearers in our region during times of need. Please let us know if there is a link that is no longer working or if you have additional suggestions.
Contact Sharon Mansur, Outreach & Accessibility Manager at sharon@semac.org or 507.322.1088, 711 TTY with questions or accessibility requests.
Americans for the Arts: Disaster Preparedness and Response
Disaster preparedness and response resources for artists and creative workers.
Artists Emergency Relief Funds
The Artists Emergency Relief Fund Network, stewarded by Springboard for the Arts, is a growing coalition of regional organizations in Minnesota supporting artists and creative workers with one-time emergency relief funds.
The Artists’ Fellowship: Financial Aid
This Fellowship financially assists professional visual artists and their families in times of emergency, disability, or bereavement.
Artist Relief Project/ARP
Any practicing individual artist (any discipline, any level of experience) may request access to resources and professional support provided by ARP.
Authors League Fund
The Authors League Fund helps writers who find themselves in financial need because of medical emergencies, temporary loss of income, or other misfortune.
Craft Emergency Relief Fund
Serving craft artists through emergency relief, preparedness, education, and advocacy.
Dramatists Guild Foundation: Crisis Relief Grants
DGF provides emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and librettists in dire need of funds due to severe hardship or unexpected illness.
Entertainment Community Fund
Emergency Financial Assistance
Available to eligible performing arts and entertainment professionals in times of unexpected critical need, and to assist towards basic living expenses.
The Dancers’ Resource
Support and resources for dancers recovering from a significant injury.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts: Emergency Grants
FCA’s Emergency Grants is a year-round, multi-disciplinary program that offers immediate, project-based assistance to artists living and working anywhere in the United States.
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation: Emergency Grant
This program provides interim financial assistance to qualified painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen, catastrophic incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation.
Hero Initiative: Financial Safety Net
The Hero Initiative creates a financial safety net for comic creators who may need emergency medical aid, financial support for essentials of life, or an avenue back into paying work.
MusiCares: Crisis Relief
MusiCares provides crisis relief, preventive care, recovery resources, and need-based financial assistance for people across all music professions.
Musicians Foundation: Financial Assistance Grants
The Musicians Foundation’s application for one-time financial assistance grants is open to professional musicians across all genres.
New York Foundation for the Arts
Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants
One-time grants of up to $3,000 to professional dancers facing dire financial emergencies due to the loss or lack of recent/current live performance work because of circumstances outside of their control.
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants
One-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need.
PEN America U.S. Writers Aid Initiative
PEN America’s U.S. Writers Aid Initiative offers grants for writers in the U.S. facing acute financial need following an emergency situation.
Screen Actors Guild Foundation: Financial Assistance
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation offers critical financial assistance programs for eligible SAG-AFTRA members experiencing urgent financial need due to a life crisis.