Emergency Readiness and Response Resources
Grantmakers in the Arts
In light of the ever-increasing environmental emergencies across our nation caused by human activity, the below resources are shared for our collective learning, network building, and advanced preparedness.
For arts and cultural organizations, and others, contact National Coalition for Arts Preparedness & Emergency Response (NCAPER), Jan Newcomb, and Mollie Quinlan-Hayes .
For individual artists, and others, contact Craft Emergency Relief Fund, Ruby Lopez Harper,and Cameron Lewis.
For performing arts organizations, contact PAR: Performing Arts Readiness and Tom Clareson.
GIA often shares these resources with communities that are in the path of upcoming or recent emergencies. With climate disasters impacting so many parts of our country at once, we felt it was important to share out these resources as broadly as possible.
It can be challenging to identify the most strategic and appropriate way to prepare and respond to an emergency in your community. A body of best practices and approaches is growing, and the partners listed above can work with you to think through what makes the most sense for your funding activities and programs. Please feel free to reach out to them for counsel.
As we stated in our earlier message, GIA believes that arts and culture are uniquely capable of humanizing issues and each other. We believe that no effort to prevent or respond to tragedies is complete but must be executed in concert with other strategies. We cannot prevent or respond to tragedies without the embrace of the full humanity of all peoples, including valuing their cultural approaches to the environment and one another. GIA believes that the valuing of our full humanity is the power of arts and culture.
Please let us know if there is a fund serving your impacted communities that you’d like us to share with our members for their contributions.
Thank you for the work you do.
Your friends at Grantmakers in the Arts
