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  • Epic - Subscription based but it has a free introductory month

  • Overdrive - Free with a participating library card

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Information and Emergency Funding for Artists

  • The Actors Fund - Fosters stability and resiliency, and provides a safety net for performing arts and entertainment professionals over their lifespan.

  • Freelance Artists - Can access this rich list of resources.

  • NAPAMA - (North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents) provides COVID-19 information particular to performing artists, agents and managers.

  • CERF+ - The Artists Safety Net is focusing resources to assist artists who test positive for COVID-19 and require intensive medical care.

  • Foundation for Contemporary Arts - Emergency Grants provide urgent funding ($500-$2,500) for visual and performing artists who incur unexpected or unbudgeted expenses for projects close to completion with committed exhibition or performance dates.

  • Rauschenberg Emergency Grants - The fund provides one-time cash grants of up to $5,000 to cover expenses caused by one-time, unexpected medical emergencies. Eligible expenses include, but are not limited to: hospital and doctor bills (including insurance co-pays), tests, physical/occupational therapy, prescription drugs specifically for the emergency medical condition, and emergency dental work.

  • Change, Inc. - Emergency grants for artists in all disciplines needing help with rent, medical expenses, utility bills, fire damage, etc. Grants up to $1,000. Call 212.473.3742 for complete instructions (via a clear, concise message) on how to apply for the grant.

  • Musician's Foundation - Grants typically range in amount from approximately $500-$3,000. All professional musicians, regardless of their genre or instrument, can apply for themselves or a family member. You must be a musician in a time of serious need, due to personal, medical, dental, or family crisis, natural disaster, or other emergency situation.

  • MusiCares - May grant short-term financial assistance for personal or addiction needs that have arisen due to unforeseen circumstances. Funding may be awarded for needs such as rent, car payments, insurance premiums, utilities, medical/dental expenses, psychotherapy, addiction treatment, sober living, and other personal expenses.

  • Authors League Fund - The Authors League Fund helps professional writers in financial need because of medical or health-related problems, temporary loss of income, or other misfortune by providing no-strings-attached “loans” to pay for pressing expenses.

  • PEN American Writers’ Emergency Fund - Emergency grant provides financial assistance to painters, printmakers, and sculptors whose needs are the result of an unforeseen incident, and who lack the resources to meet that situation.