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About the Program
Artist Get Ready Grants
CERF+’s Get Ready program provides individual craft artists grants up to $1,000 to conduct activities that will help safeguard their studios, protect their careers and prepare for emergencies. For examples of eligible activities, review the Get Ready Grant Guidelines.

This Get Ready grant cycle is specifically for craft artists impacted by Hurricane Helene. If you were not affected, please check back in the Fall of 2025 for updates on our regular grant program. Thank you.

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Applications will open on July 15th, 2025 and the deadline to apply is on August 12, 2025 at 5:00 pm Eastern Time.
  • Projects must be complete and grant funds utilized within six months of the grant award. All recipients are required to report back to CERF+.
  • Grant recipients will document and share what they learned from the project and how they were impacted by it with the public. 
  • CERF+ encourages grantees to be creative with how they share what they learned through videos, blog posts, and other media to inspire others to take emergency preparedness and career protection measures.
One application per person, please.

Ineligible Activities
Art-making projects are not eligible for Get Ready Grants. Only projects for safeguarding studios, protecting studios, implementing other safety measures, or business or career protection will be considered eligible.

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About the Program
Artist Get Ready Grants
CERF+’s Get Ready program provides individual craft artists grants up to $500 to conduct activities that will help safeguard their studios, protect their careers and prepare for emergencies. For examples of eligible activities, review the "Get Ready" Grant Guidelines.

CERF+ is hosting a special summer cycle of Get Ready grants for craft artists in Puerto Rico thanks to generous funding available through the Mellon Foundation.
                           CERF+ Get Ready Grants special grant cycle for craft artists in Puerto Rico - with map of Puerto Rico


Applications will open June 30th, 2023 and close on August 1st, 2023. 

We will inform all applicants of their grant status on August 29, 2023.

For artists outside of Puerto Rico, our regular Get Ready Grant program will resume this fall and is open to all craft artists throughout the United States and U.S. territories.

  • Projects must be complete and grant funds utilized within six months of the grant award. All recipients are required to report back to CERF+.
  • Grantees will document and share what they learned from the project and how they were impacted by it with the public. 
  • CERF+ encourages grantees to be creative with how they share what they learned through videos, blog posts, and other media to inspire others to take emergency preparedness and career protection measures.

Ineligible Activities
Art-making projects are not eligible for Get Ready Grants. Only projects for safeguarding studios, protecting studios, implementing other safety measures, or business or career protection will be considered eligible.

Please complete the following questions to confirm your eligibility for a CERF+ Get Ready Grant:







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Unfortunately, you are not eligible for a CERF+ Get Ready Grant

Unfortunately, you are not eligible for a CERF+ Get Ready Grant in this cycle.
We are glad you are interested in safeguarding your artistic practice.

Our online Studio Protector guide offers many helpful suggestions to keep your art and yourself safe. 

If you believe you will be eligible for our Get Ready Grant in the future, please follow us on social media, join our newsletter, or check back on our website soon. 

We wish you all the best.

Sincerely,
CERF+ Craft Emergency Relief Fund
Application Instructions
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Application Overview
This application will require you to submit the following information:
  • Your contact information
  • Artist details, including:
    • CV, Resume, or Artist Statement
    • 5 images of your work
    • 1 artist portrait
    • 1 photo identification
    • Website or online documentation of art practice
  • Get Ready Grant Project Proposal, including: 
    • Written narrative (400-word maximum) or short video (3-minute maximum) describing your project and how it will support you in safeguarding your studio, preparing for emergencies, or protecting your business and career.
    • How you will share what you have learned about safeguarding your studio, protecting your career, or preparing for emergencies through your project.
    • A list of estimated expenses required to complete the project. Please specify which expenses the Get Ready Grant will fund.

If you have concerns about providing anything listed above, please email programs@craftemergency.org.
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Artist Website
Share a publicly accessible website that demonstrates your artistic work or cultural practice. 

If you do not have a website, you may instead share your work with a link to (provide only one item):
          - Website hosted by another entity that displays your art or cultural work;
          - Your public Instagram or Facebook page;
          - Media platform like Vimeo or YouTube;
          - News article or event site where your work or cultural practice is featured.



Get Ready Grant Project Proposal
Project proposals may be provided in writing (400 word maximum) or via video (3 minute maximum).

The purpose of the “Get Ready Grant” is to encourage artists to safeguard their studios, protect their careers, or implement other safety measures. Please describe how this project will help protect your practice from future emergencies. If you have questions, read more about "Get Ready" Grant eligibility here.
Choose the project category (or categories) that most closely describes your intended Get Ready Grant activity
  • Studio Safeguards – including purchasing safety equipment, upgrading studio and/or equipment to improve studio health and safety, contractor consulting, purchasing safer materials and supplies, and purchasing a stronger tent, display wall, or weights for participating in outdoor fairs.
  • Emergency/Disaster Readiness – including purchasing emergency tools, supplies and equipment, upgrading studio to reduce disaster risk, contractor consulting, and theft protection measures.
  • Business Protection & Support – including documentation and archiving, inventory software, business planning for continuity and contingencies, creating secure business record-keeping systems, tutorials or training in e-commerce, professional photography of their craft portfolio, employing the services of website designers, short-term support for childcare to allow studio work time.
  • Career Protection – including legacy or estate planning, financial planning services, documentation or digitization of artwork and/or related records, legal counsel, enrolling in a professional development course or workshop to enhance career protection.

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Upload Artist Documentation
Individual files cannot be larger than 10MB, and the maximum total is 20MB.

Please be sure that all file types are either .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .heic, .heif, .pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls, or .xlsx.
Images of Your Artwork
Please provide five images of your artwork created in the past five years.





Artist Portrait
Provide one image of yourself in your studio, at your booth at a show, teaching, or otherwise engaged in your artistic practice.

Photo Identification
Please upload a photo of your driver's license, passport, or other government issued photo identification with a name that matches your application. 

As part of our due diligence to ensure that applicants to CERF+ emergency assistance are in fact the artist they say they are, we require applicants to provide a government issued photo identification to verify identity. 

While we understand that this may pose a challenge for some individuals, it is the best way we can ensure that others are not attempting to pose as other artists and fraudulently obtain emergency assistance. CERF+ takes measures to protect your data and privacy and will properly control access to and storage of this and other data related to your application.



Resume, CV, or Artist Statement
This document should include relevant art/craft related education/training, accomplishments, commissions, exhibitions, collections, residencies, employment, fellowship and honors.



Voluntary Demographic Questions
Questions on this page are OPTIONAL. Please feel free to answer or skip any of these questions. We appreciate your input.

We're asking demographic questions to continue to understand the population we serve. The demographic questions below are entirely voluntary and are not required for your application to be reviewed. The information is confidential and for internal purposes only.

The descriptions and titles in these questions are ever-evolving. We want you to be included and invite your responses.





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CERF+ reviews all applications to verify identity. CERF+ takes attempted fraud seriously and reserves the right to report all suspected fraudulent application cases to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Trade Commission, and local law enforcement authorities. 


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