COVID-19: BCAC’s Preparedness Response
Save Our Stages Act | Grants for Independent Live Venues, Independent Movie Theaters, and Cultural Institutions
Applications will be available April 8, 2021. For questions, email SVOgrant@sba.gov
Award amount up to $10,000,000; estimated average award $1,000,000.
View the SVOG webinar slides here.
Additional Resources and Emergency Relief for the Arts
Event Safety Guidance (adapted from U.S. Travel Association)
- Businesses should adapt operations, modify employee practices and/or redesign public spaces to help protect employees and customers.
- Businesses should consider implementing touchless solutions, where practical, to limit the opportunity for virus transmission while also enabling a positive travel experience.
- Businesses should adopt and implement enhanced sanitation procedures specifically designed to combat the transmission of COVID-19.
- Businesses should promote health screening measures for employees and isolate workers with possible COVID-19 symptoms and provide health resources to customers.
- Businesses should establish a set of procedures aligned with CDC guidance should an employee test positive for COVID-19.
- Businesses should follow best practices in food and beverage service to protect the health of employees and customers.
Covid-19 Social Study Artists are invited to participate in a research project about psychological and social experiences during this period of the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19).
Grants, Emergency Funding, and More
General Artist and Arts Organization Support
- Candid.org Coronavirus Relief Funds (Listed by Region)
- Tri-State Relief Fund to Support Non-Salaried Workers in the Visual Arts Emergency relief grant program will provide $1,250,000 in aid to Tri-State non-salaried workers in the visual arts who have experienced financial hardship from lack of income or opportunity as a direct result of the COVID-19 crisis.
- New York State Council on the Arts COVID 19 Resource List (Grants, Resources, and More)
- The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant Program Intended to provide 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.
- CERF+ Emergency Assistance Grant (crafters / folk art)
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund for Experimental Artists
- Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Emergency Fund for BIPOC artists and administrators
- Artist Relief Practicing Artists 21 years or older, dire emergencies due to COVID-19
- Max's Kansas City Project Professionals in the creative arts, restricted to medical, legal, and housing aid
- Arts.Gov COVID-19 Resources for Artists and Arts Organizations
- The Craft Futures Fund will provide one-time, unrestricted grants of $5,000 to craft-based education projects that seed resilience, foster community, and amplify impact.
- Alliance of Artists Communities - List of Emergency Relief Programs The Alliance of Artist Communities (AAC) seeks to support artist residencies and artists as they navigate COVID-19 pandemic.
- New York Foundation for the Arts Emergency Resource Directory
- Americans for the Arts Federal Relief Resources
- Southern Finger Lakes Arts Preparedness Network Resources for Artists and Organizations
- Rauschenberg Emergency Grants for Unexpected Medical Emergencies
- CNY Arts COVID-19 Information and Relief for Arts
- Covid-19 Freelance Artist Resource This list is specifically designed to serve freelance artists, and those interested in supporting the independent artist community.
- Humanities New York Emergency Relief Grants to Nonprofit Humanities Organizations (Closed)
Musicians and Music Industry
- MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund
- Sweet Relief Musicians Fund COVID-19 Fund
- Afro Latin Jazz Alliance Emergency Artist Fund
- Pinetop Perkins Foundation Assistance League (Blues Artists over 50)
- Live Nation / Crew Nation (Musical Crews)
- Equal Sound Corona Relief Fund Musicians with cancelled work
Entertainment, Theater and Acting Industry
- Dramatists Guild Foundation Emergency Grants
- Actors Fund (Union and non-union workers in entertainment and the performing arts)
Literary Arts and Authors
- Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund
- Authors League Fund for Emergency Circumstances
- Writers' Emergency Fund
- Carnegie Fund for Authors
- American Society of Journalists and Authors Writers Emergency Assistance Fund Freelance writers who are currently ill or caring for someone who is ill
