Emergency Readiness, Response & Recovery
The National Coalition for Arts’ Preparedness and Emergency Response is a cross-disciplinary, voluntary task force involving over 20 arts organizations (artist/art-focused organizations, arts agencies and arts funders) and individual artists, spearheaded by Craft Emergency Relief Fund/Artists’ Emergency Resources(CERF+) and South Arts. Coalition participants are committed to a combined strategy of resource development, educational empowerment, and public policy advocacy designed to ensure that there is an organized, nationwide safety net for artists and the arts organizations that serve them before, during and after disasters. GIA members active with the Coalition have been meeting at GIA’s annual conference to guide and educate foundations, arts agencies, art service organizations and corporate grantmakers interested in becoming more emergency ready and effective in their emergency relief efforts and grantmaking.
Recommended Resources & Publications
Emergency readiness:
- Checklist for Effective Disaster Response: Insigts for Wise Humanitarian Action
- Disaster Preparedness & Recovery Plan (Council on Foundations)
- Emergency Preparedness Plan from the Mississippi Arts Commission
- ArtsReady, an initiative of the Southern Arts Federation
- Studio Protector: The Artist’s Guide to Emergencies
Emergency response & recovery:
- Disaster Grantmaking: A Practical Guide for Foundations and Corporations (Council on Foundations)
- The Actors’ Fund: resources on emergency relief, disaster aid, health insurance, mental health, etc.
- New York Foundation for the Arts: NYFASource Emergency Resources
- Studio Protector: The Artist’s Guide to Emergencies
- After The Flood: Some “Out Of The Box” Options For Foundations
Reports on Emergency Funding:
- Summary of New York Arts Recovery Fund (NYFA)
- Artists’ Quake Aid Final Report 2001 (Artists Trust)
- When the Hot Dishes Stop Coming: The ‘97 Flood Clearinghouse, An Evaluation Performed for the Bush Foundation