CERF+’s Get Ready program provides individual craft artists grants up to $1,000 to conduct activities that will help safeguard their studios, protect their careers and prepare for emergencies.
Donor Name: Craft Emergency Relief Fund (CERF+)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/05/2024
Size of the Grant: Less than $1000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Priority will be given to applications from people who identify in the global majority or as Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and folk and traditional artists.
Language use is a key element of access, equity, and inclusion work, and can help or hinder efforts in this area. They are currently using the term “people of the global majority” and Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) to describe individuals from prioritized communities. They recognize that neither term is universally used nor accepted but they are the most commonly used terms in the work. They encourage you to familiarize yourself and utilize the terms that your community members use to describe themselves.
Eligible Activities
Examples of eligible activities include:
- Studio Safeguards
- Emergency/Disaster Readiness
- Business Protection & Support
- Documentation and archiving
- Inventory software
- Business planning for continuity and contingencies
- Creating secure business record-keeping systems
- Tutorials or training in e-commerce,
- Professional photography of their craft portfolio
- Employing the services of website designers
- Short-term support for childcare to allow studio work time
- Career Protection
- Legacy or estate planning
- Financial planning services
- Documentation or digitization of artwork and/or related records
- Legal counsel
- Enrolling in a professional development course or workshop to enhance career protection.
Who is Eligible?
To be eligible for a “Get Ready” Grant, applicants must:
- Be an artist working in a craft discipline
- Be 18 years of age or older
- Have been residing and working in the U.S. or U.S. Territories for the last two years
- Not have received a Get Ready Grant in 2023.
Ineligible Activities
Art making projects are not eligible for Get Ready Grants. Only projects for safeguarding studios, protecting studios, implementing other safety measures, or business or career protection will be considered eligible.
For more information, visit CERF+.
