Grant

Arts Educator Emergency Relief Fund

NYC Arts in Education Roundtable

New York, NY 10108

Deadline

Aug 21, 2020

Posted

Aug 14, 2020

The NYC Arts in Education Roundtable is proud to establish the Arts Educator Emergency Relief Fund. This fund will award one-time, unrestricted grants up to $1,000 to teaching artists and arts education administrators who are facing serious financial hardship due to the COVID-19 crisis. This fund is made possible by the generous support of the New York Community Trust, including funding from the NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund in the New York Community Trust, and the Booth Ferris Foundation. The goal of this fund is to provide critical assistance to New York City’s arts education community, which has been among the most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

These unrestricted cash grants are intended to support teaching artists and arts education administrators with:

  • Lost wages and earnings;
  • Medical and healthcare expenses;
  • Childcare and eldercare;
  • Rent and mortgage payments;
  • Food, utilities, and other living expenses.

Recipients for the award will be selected by a review panel based on a brief application until all funds have been exhausted within the award cycle. A minimum of 330 grants will be awarded; additional award cycles may open as funding allows.

Full application criteria can be found below under “Applicant Criteria”. Priority in grant selection will be given to applicants from communities most impacted by COVID-19 including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, immunosuppressed, low-income, non-gender conforming, genderqueer, transgender-identifying practitioners, and practitioners with disabilities. In support of our work to dismantle white supremacy within our organizations, schools, and communities, we are committing to granting at least $100,000 to Black arts education practitioners.