The NYC Arts in Education Roundtable is proud to host a third cycle of the Arts Educator Emergency Relief Fund. This fund will award one-time, unrestricted grants up to $1,000 to teaching artists and arts education administrators who are facing serious financial hardship due to the COVID-19 crisis.

The third cycle of this relief fund is made possible by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with additional support by The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation. This cycle will distribute at least $335,000. The goal of this fund is to provide critical assistance to New York City’s arts education community, which has been among the most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The relief fund application will be open from Monday, March 7 at 12pm ET to Monday, March 21 at 11:59pm ET via Submittable. The application is now closed.

If you are interested in helping expand the fund’s impact, please contact Kimberly Olsen, Executive Director at kolsen@nycaieroundtable.org.

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Special Thanks

Cycle #3 of NYC Arts in Education Roundtable’s Arts Educator Emergency Relief Fund is by made possible by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Cycle #2 of the Arts Educator Emergency Relief Fund was by made possible by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with additional support from The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation.

Cycle #1 of the Arts Educator Emergency Relief Fund was originally made possible by the generous support of the New York Community Trust, including funding from the NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund in the New York Community Trust, and the Booth Ferris Foundation. 

About the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable: The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable improves, advances, and advocates for arts education in New York City. We are a community of organizations and individuals that shares information, provides professional development, and communicates with the public to promote our work in schools and beyond. Founded in 1992, the Roundtable produces a major annual conference, Face to Face; monthly professional development programs; a destination website; and other activities, in addition to ongoing advocacy and communications efforts for over 1,000 individuals and member organizations.

The New York City Arts in Education Roundtable is committed to equity, inclusion, and justice. We acknowledge our complicity in the long history of systemic racism within our country and the institutions of power in our city. We will continue to work to dismantle white supremacy within our organizations, schools, and communities. Our work here is just beginning, but we know that this has been a fight for centuries. 

For more information please visit: www.nycaieroundtable.org.