Deadline: 12-Oct-21
The Grit Fund is offering $500 Emergency Recovery Grants (ERG) to Baltimore City and Baltimore County based artists whose income and opportunities have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.
Funding Information
- The ERG Fund totals $60,000 and will provide approximately 120 grants to artists.
- These unrestricted $500 grants may be used for immediate needs such as housing, utilities, food, childcare, healthcare, etc.
What Funds can Cover?
- There are many reasons you might apply for the Grit Fund Emergency Recover Grant. Below are some of the things that the funds can cover:
- Financial losses due to canceled events. This includes:
- Performances, exhibitions, commissions, and screenings;
- Readings, panels, speaking and presenting opportunities
- Unrecoverable travel expenses related to creative work. This includes:
- Nonrefundable, prepaid transportation or lodging. This has to be for conferences or convenings you were planning to go to;
- Artist Residencies;
- Touring costs
- Lost income for teaching artists whose classes were canceled
- Lost supplemental income because the industry in which you work has been shut down due to the COVID-19 crisis (ex. Service industry, retail, etc.)
- Loss of access to work due to childcare and school closures.
- The cost of transitioning to virtual or online platforms (eg. buying equipment or software that would allow teaching artists to provide lessons online).
- Financial losses due to canceled events. This includes:
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible, you must be able to say yes to all the below statements:
- I am experiencing financial emergencies due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- I am a self-identified artist residing in Baltimore City or Baltimore County.
- I am a practicing artist/arts-based cultural organizer able to demonstrate a sustained commitment to my practice, career, and a public audience.
- I am 21 years of age or older.
- I can provide a W9 and Social Security Number (SSN) or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN). This information will not be asked for until after the grant has been awarded.
For more information, visit https://www.gritfund.org/emergency-recovery-grants/