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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM AT EARTHDANCE
(PARTIAL SCHOLARSHIP/WORk-STUDY)
http://earthdance.net/waystobe.htm#artist
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This is a call to dancers, improvisers, visual artists, writers, and
creators of all kinds. Do you have a piece that you have been dreaming of
completing surrounded by the quiet of forested hills? Are you finishing your
book or screenplay? Would you like to spend a month in rural western
Massachusetts, surrounded by trees, land and sky? Earthdance offers artistic
retreat residencies and the opportunity to share your teaching treasures by
offering a weekly class to our residents and local community. In the
residency, we provide room and board and at least four hours of studio time
per day when available. The fee is $400 per month. We ask for three hours of
work exchange and one class per week. We do not offer residencies in the
summer months of June through August.
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ESPY RESIDENCY
http://www.espyfoundation.org/residents/index.html
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The Foundation's goal is to provide writers and artists of all genres from
all over the world with an environment in which they can pursue their work
without interruption. Residents share accommodations in bay view cottages in
the serenely beautiful village of Oysterville, a National Historic District,
located near the northern tip of the Long Beach Peninsula on the southwest
coast of Washington State. Residents also receive a stipend for food. The
month-long residencies are offered in March, June and October. Both emerging
and established fiction writers, creative non-fiction writers, poets,
playwrights, screenwriters, painters, sculptors, photographers, musicians,
and composers are eligible for the residencies.
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FREE LEGAL SERVICES - FORDHAM LAW SCHOOL
E-mail - Lindsey Bowen at
lbowenjr@gmail.com
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Fordham Law School is starting a free legal clinic for artists and anyone
else with copyright, fair use, or other kinds of "information law" problems
who can't afford a lawyer. The school is looking for clients for this
program and is currently in the process of defining its scope of service. A
potential funder wants the school to concentrate on issues that affect the
public interest in the greater NY area. So theater, arts, small media, and
small tech are very much on the radar. Also, any online projects. The school
is particularly seeking to serve documentary filmmakers (or filmmaking
groups) with fair use problems and bloggers with legal troubles. The goal is
to have this program running by January 2009. E-mail if you are interested
in using these pro bono legal services.
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MARTHA BOSCHEN PORTER FUND
http://www.berkshiretaconic.org/Grantseekers/GrantApps/BoschenApp.pdf
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Supports artists in Connecticut. Has 50 grants for projects in the arts, to
include writing. Applicants must have been full-time residents in the
Berkshire Taconic region (Berkshire County, NA; Columbia County and
northeast Dutchess County, NY; Northwest Litchfield County, CT) for two
years prior to applying. Grants are $1,000 to $5,000. Deadlines February 1
and July 1 each year.
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ELIZABETH GEORGE FOUNDATION
P.O. Box 1429, Langley, WA 98260
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Offers grants to unpublished fiction writers, published or unpublished
poets, emerging playwrights, and organizations benefiting disadvantaged
youth. Elizabeth George is a fiction/mystery writer. The application
deadline for the first stage of the grant is June 15, 2008. Write to
request guidelines.
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SANTA FE ARTS INSTITUTE EMERGENCY FUNDS
http://www.sfai.org/applications.html
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As an outgrowth of our original Emergency Relief Residencies, SFAI has
instituted an ongoing Emergency Relief Residency to provide residencies for
artists and writers whose lives and work are compromised by domestic strife,
political upheaval or natural disasters. Residencies are by application
only.
In response to the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, SFAI is ready
to make available its facility to artists, writers and crafts people who
lost homes, studios, art work or jobs.
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AUTHORS' CONTINGENCY FUND - UK
http://www.societyofauthors.org
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This fund makes modest grants to published authors who find themselves in
sudden financial difficulties. Contact the
Society of Authors for an information sheet and application form.
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NEWSPAPER PRESS FUND - UK
Phone 01306 887511
Fax 01306 888212
E-mail:
enquiries@pressfund.org.uk
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Aims to relieve distress among journalists and their dependants. Continuous
and/or occasional financial grants; also retirement homes for eligible
beneficiaries.
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ROYAL LITERARY FUND
http://www.rlf.org.uk/
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The Royal Literary Fund is a British benevolent fund for professional
published authors in financial difficulties.
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CHANGE EMERGENCY FUNDS
Change, Inc.
P.O. Box 54, Captiva, FL 33924
Phone: (212) 473-3742
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Awards of up to $1,000 for medical, living, or other emergencies. Open to artists of all
disciplines, with no U.S. geographical restrictions; students are not eligible. Each
applicant must submit a detailed letter describing the financial
emergency, copies of outstanding bills, medical fee estimates, etc., and
current financial statements, along with a career resume, exhibition or
performance announcements, slides or photos of work and two letters of
reference from someone in the affiliated field (no video tapes). Only
complete applications will be accepted. Change, Inc does not issue more
than one grant per person.
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LUDWIG VOGELSTEIN FOUNDATION
Diana Braunschweig, Exec. Dir.
4001 Inglewood Ave. Suite 101-309
Redondo Beach, CA 90278-if doesn't
work, try
PO Box 510, Shelter Island, NY 11964-0510
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No telephone inquiries. We do not consider performing arts categories
but grants in the fine arts (painting, sculpture, printmaking, etc. – NO
digital/film/video/photography) and various literary arts (fiction,
including playwriting, prose, poetry, and creative nonfiction) and for
certain unaffiliated scholarly and/or research projects. These are
one-time grants to individuals only. Deadlines are in mid-spring for
submissions.
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PEN AMERICAN CENTER WRITER'S FUND
http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/251
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The PEN Writers Fund is an emergency fund for professionally published or produced—writers with serious financial
difficulties. Depending on the situation, the fund gives grants or loans of up to $1,000. The maximum amount is given
only under especially dire circumstances and when monies are available. The PEN Fund for Writers and Editors
with HIV/AIDS, administered under the PEN Writers Fund, gives grants of up
to $1,000 to professional writers and editors who face serious financial difficulties because of HIV or
AIDS-related illness. The Writers Fund does not exist for research purposes, to enable the completion of writing projects, or
to fund publications or organizations. The Writers Fund Committee meets approximately every two months to review
applications.
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AUTHORS LEAGUE FUND - EMERGENCY FUNDS
31 East 32nd Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Main Phone: (212)268-1208
Main Fax: (212)564-5363
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The Authors League Fund was established by the Authors League of America, Inc., to help career authors and
dramatists in the United States and in financial distress due to an urgent situation. The Fund makes interest-free
loans to professional writers in need; for example, writers with health problems and inadequate health insurance, or
older writers whose income has ceased. Loan-seekers must show need and documentation of their professional status. Method of contact: telephone, letter or email.
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CLAYTON MEMORIAL MEDICAL FUND
c/o OSFCI
P.O. Box 5703
Portland, Oregon 97228
http://www.osfci.org/clayton/index.html
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The fund helps professional science fiction and fantasy writers living in the Northwest states of Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, and Alaska deal with the financial burden of illness.
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AMERICAN POETS FUND - EMERGENCY FUNDS
The Academy of American Poets
584 Broadway, Suite 604
New York, NY 10012-5243
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Assists poets of demonstrated ability who are in a state of urgent financial need. Grants cannot be used to promote
or otherwise enhance literary talent or reputation, and applications are not accepted. Academy Chancellors, Fellows,
and prize winners may bring the circumstances of qualifying poets to the attention of the American Poets Fund committee
by sending a letter of nomination, including specifics about the nominee's current financial situation, to the
Executive Director of the Academy.
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POETS IN NEED
http://www.poetsinneed.org/
Emergency assistance to established poets who have a substantive published
body of work.
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SFWA EMERGENCY FUNDS
http://www.sfwa.org/org/funds.htm
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The SFWA Emergency Medical Fund offers interest-free loans to
members facing unexpected medical expenses.
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SFWA LEGAL FUNDS
http://www.sfwa.org/org/funds.htm
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The SFWA Legal Fund makes loans available to authors who must take a
writing-related dispute to court. Loans are made on a case-by-case basis,
after review by the Grievance Committee and the SFWA attorney.
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WRITERS EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FUND
(Formerly The Llewellyn Miller Fund of the American Society of Journalists
and Authors Charitable Trust )
1501 Broadway, Ste. 302
New York, NY 10036
Tel: (212) 997-0947
FAX: (212) 768-7414
http://www.asja.org/weaf.php
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Financial relief assistance to established, professional freelance writers
of nonfiction books and magazine articles. Must be
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WRITER'S TRUST WOODCOCK FUND - EMERGENCY FUNDS
90 Richmond Street East
Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario
M5C 1P1
416-504-8222 / F- 416-504-9090
http://www.writerstrust.com/
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Provides emergency funding for established writers in mid-project who are facing financial crisis. Since its
inception, the Woodcock Fund has supported 103 Canadian writers in financial difficulty. The total amount
dispersed to date is $380,000.
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JOHN
ANSON KITTREDGE EDUCATIONAL FUND.
c/o
Key Trust Company of Maine, P.O. Box 1054, Augusta, ME 04332
Application
Address, P.O. Box 382203, Cambridge, MA 02238-2203
Grants
awarded to artists in very special circumstances. $1,000 - $10,000.
Initial contact by letter stating purpose, amount requested, period of
funding, supporting letter.
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