The Artist Access program at Brooklyn's Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center allows artists, through performances or interactive programs for patients, to exchange their art for health care credits, which are accrued in the artist’s personal account. Each hour of work is worth 40 credits, and credits can be used in lieu of dollars to cover sliding scale fees in Woodhull’s HHC Options program.
The Apocalypse Meow Musicians Health Care Fund is designed to assist members of the Kansas City area music community with emergency medical situations.
Columbus Musician’s Assistance Program (CMAP) disperses mini-grants to working Central Ohio musicians who are lacking health insurance coverage and are experiencing health-related financial hardships.
Musicians will be able to submit requests for assistance with medical bills/treatments/office visits, vision or dental services, prescription medications, or drug and alcohol addiction treatment.
The Haven Foundation is a national, nonprofit organization making grants to freelance writers and artists experiencing career-threatening illness, accident, natural disaster or other emergency or personal catastrophe.
Springboard is a nonprofit agency whose mission is to help self-employed creative people make a living in the 14 counties around the Twin Cities and into western Wisconsin. They administer the Artist Loan Fund, a low-interest revolving loan fund for artists; and the Emergency Relief Fund, which offers up to $500 to artists who have had a career-threatening calamity. In addition, maintains a free, online Guide to Healthcare for Artists that includes connections to Minnesota's insurance providers, low-cost clinics and programs, free screenings and alternative care providers. Springboard's Artists' Access to Healthcare program provides uninsured and underinsured artists with a $40 voucher to use for medical services at the N.I.P. Community Clinic in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Arthouse has an Emergency Relief Fund for Texas-based artists who have experienced an unforeseen emergency that affects their ability to work.
The Artists' Fellowship, Inc. assists professional fine artists (painters, graphic artists, sculptors) and their families in times of emergency, disability, or bereavement.
Administered under the PEN Writers’ Fund, grants of up to $2,000 are given to professional writers and editors who face serious financial difficulties because of HIV or AIDS-related illness.
The PEN Writers’ Fund is an emergency fund for professional— published or produced—writers in acute, emergency financial crisis.
The Authors League Fund helps professional writers and dramatists in financial need as a result of medical or health-related problems, temporary loss of income or other misfortune. The Fund gives open-ended, interest-free, no-strings-attached loans.
