From Sore to Soar
Drama
Lifelines, Helpline & Hotlines
Advocacy & Resources
* Authors League Fund
Website: https://authorsleaguefund.org
Description: Helping authors, graphic novelists, journalists, critics,essays, poets, short essay writers, dramatists, librettists with emergency circumstances such as illness, supporting dependent family members ill health, dental and medical bills, imminent eviction and housing insecurity, national disaster relief, income loss, includes a crisis fund guide for financial aid by type
Dramatics Guild Foundation (DGF)
Website: https://dgf.org
Description: Emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and book writers
Crisis grants - assists with emergency payments, healthcare costs, medical bills, housing costs, utility bills, groceries, legal fees, financial assistance, childcare, and other essential expenses, must have serve hardship or unexpected illness; crisis relief grants for professional dramatists meeting guidelines and must have less than 15,000 in combined bank accounts
Includes bridge grants $500 to support dramatists with non-emergency and essential daily living expenses such as housing costs, utilities, groceries, accessibility support, transportation, dependent care, medications, holistic healthcare, mental health care, reproductive care
$ Funding Opportunities
Authors League Fund (see above) - Crisis Grants
Dramatics Guild Foundation (DGF) (see above) - Crisis Grants and Bridge Grants
* Toolkits & More