Consider donating to a worthy arts organization:
The Actors Fund of Canada
The AFC is the lifeline for Canada’s entertainment industry. Through compassionate and confidential support, we help Canadian entertainment professionals maintain their health, dignity and ability to work. The AFC is an expression of the community’s good will, helping entertainment professionals when they are at their most vulnerable due to injury, illness or other personal hardship.
The Indie Theatre Fund NYC
The Indie Theater Fund is launching this fundraising campaign to provide direct support and emergency relief to independent theaters and artists in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://www.indietheaterfund.org/
Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund
This fund is to help at least 100 queer writers of color who have been financially impacted by the current COVID-19. Priority will be given to queer trans women of color and queer disabled writers of color, but I hope this relief fund will help many queer writers of color it can.
Support Act, Australia
Support Act is Australia’s only charity delivering crisis relief services to artists, crew and music workers as a result of ill health, injury, a mental health problem, or some other crisis that impacts on their ability to work in music.
Our assistance can take the form of paying the rent or the mortgage, buying a bed or wheel chair, paying for car repairs, medical / dental / phone / electricity bills, or a credit card debt. We provide referrals to other support services; funding for funerals; and we support friends and family seeking to raise funds for an artist or music worker in crisis through our Help a Mate program.
Actors Fund (US)
Founded in 1882, we serve all professionals—and not just actors—in film, theater, television, music, opera, radio and dance through programs that address our community's unique and essential needs.
Employment in any division of the performing arts and entertainment industry is unpredictable. Work is erratic, security is fleeting and health insurance is often just a dream. For all of these reasons and many more, The Actors Fund is an indispensable and deeply significant part of the entire entertainment community.
Artist Emergency Relief Fund -Ireland
We have established a fund to provide financial relief to Irish artists experiencing lost income related to COVID-19. Small grants of up to €500 will be paid rapidly on a first-come, first-served basis to affected artists and groups.
Donations will be accepted by individuals and corporations in order to replenish the fund and continue making payments to eligible artists in the queue. The Civic, Tallaght is covering all admin/processing costs so 100% of every donation goes directly to artists in the community. Please consider donating using the form below or contact niamh@civictheatre.ie to get involved. No donation is too small.
Playwright’s Guild of Canada
Our mission since our founding in 1972 has been to advance the creative rights and interests of professional Canadian playwrights, promote Canadian plays nationally and internationally, and foster an active, evolving community of writers for the stage. With over 800 members, this is a massive undertaking.
When you donate to PGC, you are contributing to an enormous community of Canadian storytellers. Your support allows us to continue to bring services and programming to playwrights who often do not have the means to support themselves based on their work alone.
Creative People in Florence
Creative People in Florence is a Cultural Association made up of a vibrant international community of artists, designers, artisans, and creative thinkers. The group was founded to foster collaboration, promote our members’ projects, and activate the contemporary arts in Florence.
Red Sandcastle Theatre
For 7 Years now The Red Sandcastle Theatre has been a creative hub in Leslieville for the theatre and theatre going community to have a lot of fun! 50 - 70 Seats of Magic.
This company has been hard-hit by the cancellations. Consider getting in touch about donating!
https://redsandcastletheatre.com/
Writer’s Trust
In 1976, five prominent writers — Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Graeme Gibson, Margaret Laurence, and David Young — founded the Writers’ Trust to ensure that Canadian writing would continue to thrive for the benefit of all readers. The Writers' Trust has built on this mission over the past 40 years, elevating our country’s writers to amplify the empathetic, imaginative Canadian voices that can change worlds far beyond our own border.
Young People’s Theatre
YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATRE (YPT) is the oldest professional theatre company in Toronto and is a national producer and presenter of theatre for young audiences – the first in North America and the largest of its kind in Canada.
(A NOTE FROM NICK) - This theatre company is vitally important, and has been hit particularly hard due to ongoing school strikes as well as this pandemic. The work they do shapes young minds and inspires young artists. Consider donating please.