Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants are open for Cycle 6.
These are one-time grants of up to $5,000 to professional dancers who have experienced dire financial emergencies due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences, including lack or imminent endangerment of essentials such as housing, medicine/healthcare, utilities, and food. Cycle 6 has a deadline of December 9, for emergency expenses between July 1, 2022 and April 30, 2023. Cycle 7 will open on January 10, 2023 with a deadline of February 17, 2023. Program guidelines, an informational video, and the online application are here: https://www.nyfa.org/rdeg.
This program is open to artists living anywhere in the U.S, its territories, tribal nations, and the District of Columbia. Artists with disabilities, artists of color, and artists living outside of New York are particularly encouraged to apply. For more information, email emergencyfunds@nyfa.org, or call 212/366-6900 x 239.