Artist Resources and Relief
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Emergency Fund (Southwestern PA)
PGH Artists Emergency Fund (Pittsburgh area)
Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund by Shade Literary Arts
Panel: Artists in a Time of Global Pandemic (ASL & Captioned), a live webinar
So You Want to Start An Emergency Relief Fund PDF by Springboard for the Arts
3Arts List of Emergency Resources
Resource List for Artists & Arts Organizations by Midwest Artist Projects Services
(St. Louis-central but includes regional and national resources)
Artist Relief Grants ($5,000 grants)
Frontlines Leaders Fund by Southern Vision Alliance
(North & South Carolina only: small grants of up to $500 to neighborhood-based and local organizing efforts in response to COVID-19)
ASJA Writers Emergency Assistance Fund, American Society of Journalists and Authors (funds for those who are ill or caring for someone ill)
COVID-19 & Freelance Artists Resources (a fairly extensive list)
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants COVID-19 Fund (experimental artists)
Coffee House Writers Project ($500 for commissioned works by writers whose ability to support themselves has been affected by the COVID-19 crisis)
General Resources
Resources: Urgent Community Needs, from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh COVID-19 LGBTQIA Emergency Relief Fund, organized by Sisters Pittsburgh
How To Ge the $1,200 Economic Impact Payment if You Don't File Taxes
Coronavirus Resource Kit by Decolonize This Place
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Tenant Organizing Manual by Democratic Socialists of America
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with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.
--Lucille Clifton