The program will distribute cash grants of $1,000 to artists with a disability, who have experienced financial hardship due to the COVID-19 crisis to cover art related expenses. The grant will be open to visual, media, music, performing, literary, and multidisciplinary artists who live in New York State. After reviewing for completeness and eligibility, qualifying applicants will be selected for funding via a lottery process.

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is a nonprofit service organization that empowers working artists and emerging arts organizations across all disciplines at critical stages in their creative lives and professional/organizational development.

We are artists and organizers working to preserve, sustain, and grow the cultural vibrancy of the Lower East Side neighborhood. Our commitment to sustaining the cultural character and diversity of the community extends across the LES: from 14th Street to Canal, from Bowery to the East River. FABnyc works in partnership with the community bringing artists and arts strategies to – Fight physical and cultural displacement – Build collective power and collaboration – Increase equity and access to cultural resources and public space – Support local resiliency and community health.

WOW Café Theatre is a women’s theater collective in NYC’s East Village, which promotes the empowerment of women through the performing arts.

The MTF community includes writers, composers, performers, choreographers, directors, music directors, dramaturgs, designers, and producers. Musical Theatre Factory is artist focused, and a space where writers can see their work, at any stage, on its feet. MTF is accessible to emerging musical theatre makers and builds bridges for them to connect with experts in the field, across disciplines. We are dedicated to developing new work in a collaborative atmosphere free from the pressures of critical or financial success that dismantles oppressive ideologies towards collective liberation...

Est. 1978 by four writers who met in the New York Public Library on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, The Writers Room (WR) is New York City’s first and most acclaimed professional writers' colony – as well as the nation’s original writers' collective. Membership fee required. See website for details.

The Forum for Cultural Engagement (FCE) is a leading cultural diplomacy organization, which produces multi-faceted, interdisciplinary programming around the globe. Founded by singer-songwriter Mary McBride, FCE collaborates with embassies, corporations, academic institutions, cultural organizations, NGOs and artists to forge deeper understanding, ease conflict and lessen human isolation. In collaboration with multi-national diplomatic teams and a broad network of partner organizations across four continents, FCE has created bold and uniquely innovative programming since its inception in 2014...

MAESTRA MUSIC, INC. was founded by composer/lyricist and music director Georgia Stitt to give support, visibility, and community to the women who make the music in the musical theater industry. Our membership is made up of female-identifying composers, music directors, orchestrators, arrangers, copyists, rehearsal pianists and other musicians who are an underrepresented minority in musical theater.

For over 30 years, AMERINDA has been the only community-based organization specifically advocating for the inclusion of the indigenous perspective in the arts and cultural equity in public policy in New York City.

Mission: To create long-term performing arts education partnerships, dynamic community outreach opportunities and innovative productions that enrich and transform students and families through theatre and the arts.

Naked Angels was formed in 1986 by a group of artists intent on creating a creative home for rigorous voices. Working as a team of writers, directors, actors, producers, and designers, our founders crafted an open environment for expression, experimentation, and production. The company took its name from the John Tytell book, which referred to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and other Beats as “a generation that wanted to break out of convention and scream.” As a young group, the Naked Angels artists felt the same way; needing a place where, through the medium of theater, they...

The Association of Author's Representatives is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1991, which currently has more than 400 professional literary and dramatic agents as members. Agents must meet the AAR's minimum experience requirements and agree to adhere to its Bylaws and Canon of Ethics. Members in the Literary Branch represent authors in all areas of publishing, including the granting of primary publishing rights, as well as subsidiary rights in their clients' works. Agents in the Dramatic Branch represent playwrights and the rights to their plays. Writers seeking...