Thousands of museums, performing arts centers, dance companies, theaters, writing programs, historical sites, libraries, and art schools have had to close their venues and cancel performances, exhibitions, festivals, events, and entire seasons as a result of the pandemic.
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Late on Wednesday, March 25, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed (96-0) the third phase of the coronavirus (COVID-19) response relief package. The $2 trillion emergency stimulus package included important provisions supporting the arts sector and creative workforce. The nation's arts and culture industry is experiencing devastating economic losses with closed venues and cancelled performances, exhibitions, and events as a result of the pandemic.
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Organizations can apply for these low-interest loans to cover basic expenses such as staff salaries, artist payments, rent and other operating costs during this challenging time.
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The DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the University of Maryland is offering pro bono consultations to any U.S.-based non-profit arts or culture organization between March and June 2020, as a response to the mounting effects of the Coronavirus pandemic.
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As we all learn to manage under vastly new working and living circumstances, we want to share with you what we are working on at the CAA/CFTA office.
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A CAA Letter to Gov. Newsom & Legislative Leaders
On behalf of California’s artists and arts organizations please accept our sincere thanks for your hard work responding to the immediate public health and safety needs of Californians during the COVID-19 pandemic. The public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has affected so many lives and businesses, and the already financially vulnerable community of non-profit arts and culture organizations, as well as individual artists, have been severely impacted.
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Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) is a federal program that provides financial assistance to jobless workers and the self-employed when they are unemployed as a direct result of a major natural disaster. A major disaster means any hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high water, wind-driven water or tidal wave, earthquake, drought, fire or other catastrophe declared by the President to warrant government assistance to communities and individuals.
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As of Sunday, March 22, CA is only one of three states that has received a major disaster declaration from the President. Among other things, this allows CA to implement DUA (Disaster Unemployment Assistance) for the self-employed and freelancers.
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On March 18, 2020 President Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”). The FFCRA contains several separate Acts, including Acts to expand family and medical leave and guarantee emergency paid sick leave for employees who work for public and private employers. Certain employees are now entitled to paid family and medical leave and emergency paid sick leave. While employers are obligated to pay for such leave, the FFCRA creates payroll tax credits that covered employers can take advantage of later.
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Stay at Home Fest harnesses the power of the internet for good, by creating an open source central hub to find all the fantastic decentralized events that are happening online, and aiding music discovery during the global pandemic.
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Request your members of Congress ensure Congress will include $4 billion—to be distributed though the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)—to help offset the losses of the nonprofit arts industry, and expand eligibility through additional federal programs to ensure artists, entrepreneurs, and small businesses in the creative economy can utilize business interruption relief.
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The economic landscape and forecast for California has dramatically altered since the January budget announcement. Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, Chairwoman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee reports, "there’s another change the coronavirus crisis has brought: a need to funnel large amounts of government cash into virus-related programs.
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El 18 de marzo, 2020, el Presidente Trump firmó la ley “Familias Primero – Acta de Respuesta al Coronavirus” (conocida en inglés como “Families First Coronavirus Response Act” o por sus iniciales “FFCRA”). La FFCRA contiene varias Actas separadas, incluyendo Actas para ampliar la ley de permisos familiares y médicos y para garantizar permisos para ausentarse con compensación por razones urgentes de enfermedad para empleados quienes trabajan para empleadores públicos y privados.
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The Art Report, and UNTITLED, ART have expanded the qualifications for the UNTITLED, ART Emergency Fund to include financial assistance for freelance, hourly, and wage working artists vulnerable to the economic standstill.
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In a letter to President Donald Trump, Governor Gavin Newsom today requested a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration to assist in California’s COVID-19 preparedness and emergency response efforts.
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FEMA announced that federal emergency aid has been made available for the state of California to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic beginning on January 20, 2020, and continuing.
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Billboard has compiled a list of resources at both the national and state levels, including more than four dozen relief funds.
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SFF will make a limited number of one-time grants ($5,000 – $25,000) to 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 nonprofits addressing the following four issue areas: racial bias, worker protection, homelessness and renter protection/housing security, and food security.
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