Funding

Artists & Admin  |  Arts and Culture Leaders of Color Emergency Fund
Artists & Choreographers  |  NYFA Rauschenberg Emergency Grant
Dancers  |  Dancers’ Resource
Multi-disciplinary  |  Indie Theater Fund Covid19 Emergency Grant
Performing Artists  |  Actors Fund of America
Visual & Performing Artists  |  Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant

Continued funding list | New York Foundation for the Arts


Resources / Services

Resources  |  Artist/Freelancer Emergency Funding & Resource
Resources  |  Freelance Artist Resources
Resources  | LatinX Playwrights Circle Tools & Resources

Services  |  ACCESS HRA – NYC Gov’t (rent, food stamps, health benefits, cash assistance)
Services  |  Bartender Emergency Assistance Program
Services  |  Invisible Hands NYC Local Delivery – Use the service or volunteer
Services  |  NYC Hate Crime/Bias Incident
Services  |  NYC School Meals

Addiction | Southeast Addiction Center 2023's Top 50 resources for Black men who are struggling with substance use and/or their mental health.

Addiction | Lexington Addiction Center - Resources for Asian American students


Events

Advocacy  | Dance Rising NYC

Advocacy | Dance NYC


Tools


The African American Policy Forum Founded in 1996, the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) is an innovative think tank that connects academics, activists, and policy-makers to promote efforts to dismantle structural inequality.

Allies for Racial Equity is an antiracist movement of white Unitarian Universalists working to understand whiteness and privilege, unlearn and challenge white supremacy, and confront racism in ways that are accountable to communities of color.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) works in the courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

The Audre Lorde Project is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans, and gender nononforming people of color community organizing center, focusing on the New York City area.

The Bail Project is a nonprofit organization designed to combat mass incarceration by disrupting the money bail system—one person at a time.

Black Lives Matter is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.

Black Voters Matter works to increase voter registration and turnout by advocating for policies that intersect with race, gender, economics, and other aspects of equity.​

Campaign Zero is a data-driven platform that presents comprehensive research on and solutions for ending police violence in the United States.

Catalyst Project is a center for political education and movement building committed to anti-racist work with mostly white sections of left / radical social movements.

Color of Change helps design campaigns to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back and to champion solutions that move us all forward.

Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, challenging racial and economic injustice, and protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

Interaction Institute For Social Change works with people and systems to build collaborative capacity in individuals, organizations, and networks working for social justice and racial equity.

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is a United States civil rights organization that seeks structural changes to expand democracy, eliminate disparities, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans.

The Okra Project is a collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black trans people by bringing home-cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black trans people wherever they can be reached.

The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) is a national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation.

Race Forward is a nonprofit organization that catalyzes movement building for racial justice. In partnership with communities, organizations, and sectors, we build strategies to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture.

The Racial Imaginary Institute is a collaborative organization committed to the activation of interdisciplinary work and a democratized exploration of race in our lives.

Showing up For Racial Justice (SURJ) is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work toward racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.

The Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South. SCHR fights for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the criminalization of poverty, and racial injustice.

Training for Change, White People Confronting Racism Workshop is for white people who want to challenge the racism around them—and in their own heads and hearts—and who are searching for a way to strengthen their work for racial justice.

Racial Justice and Equity