Information Session

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 15, 2022

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Access

We recommend viewing today’s Info Session in speaker view and when slides are shared to be in Speaker: Side by Side view

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• Live Spanish Interpretation

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• Live English CART Captioning

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• ASL Interpretation

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About CRNY

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We value

• Transformative, caring support for artists;
• Trust in and respect for program participants
• Worker solidarity and labor acknowledgement;
• Reparative, equitable access to funds and opportunities; and
• An invitation to challenge and reimagine existing systems and institutions.

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How we define artist

Someone who regularly engages in artistic or cultural practice to:

• express themselves with the intention of communicating richly to or sharing with others;
• pass on traditional knowledge and cultural practices;
• offer cultural resources to their communities; and/or
• co-organize and co-create within communities toward social impacts.

Artists aspire to sustain themselves through their practice and maintain a commitment to continuing their practice. Artists can work both individually and collaboratively, or as educators within their field of practice.  

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An Artist, Culture Bearer or Culture Maker is…

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Application Period

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Portrait of New York State Artists

• Artistic practice
• Financial security
• Wellbeing
• Pandemic experience
• Attitudes about policy and advocacy matters

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Funding for to 300 artists, culture bearers, and culture makers in collaboration with dozens of community-based organizations across New York State for two years.

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Who is this for?

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Organizations who serve and Artists who are…

• Black, indigenous, people of color
• Immigrants
• LGBTQIAP+
• Deaf/disabled
• Criminal legal system involved
• Living at or below the poverty line
• Rural areas

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Employment

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Joint Application 

Collaborations can include:

• One or more artists.
• Organizations can apply to employ a single artist or multiple artists.
• In situations with multiple artists, those artists can work collaboratively or in distinct ways.
• The entire proposed collaboration will be evaluated as a Collaborators will not be evaluated individually. 

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Artists and Organizations Apply Together

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Employment Funding

• $65,000 per year for 2 years
• Benefits
• dedicated time to focus on their practice. 

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Artists

Organizations

• Between $25,000 and $100,000 per organization, annually
• dependent on number of artists employed and impact on organizational budgets

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Employment Holding

A collaborating organization holds employment

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Artists

Organizations

Employment is held through an intermediary

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Eligibility

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Artist Eligibility

• Primary residents of New York State 
• An artist, culture bearer, or culture maker 
• Not a staff member or related to a staff member (e.g., an immediate family member) of Tides or Creatives Rebuild New York. 

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Organization Eligibility

• Be a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity or a government instrumentality, and/or fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) public charity  
• Have their principal place of business in New York State  
• Serve Community

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Eligibility Restrictions

• Artists and organizations may participate as part of only one application to the Artist Employment Program. Artists cannot seek to be employed by multiple organizations; organizations cannot submit multiple proposals involving different artists or collaborations.  
• Artists are not permitted to apply to both the Guaranteed Income for Artists and Artist Employment Program.

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Multiple applications

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Eligibility Restrictions

• An LLC or other non-501(c)(3) organization cannot apply as the primary organization but may apply with a fiscal sponsor that is a 501(c)(3) public charity or as a collaborating partner on a 501(c)(3) organization’s application.
• An artist may work with a non-501(c)(3) organization only if that organization is fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) public charity. 
• A fiscally-sponsored individual artist is not eligible to apply without a 501(c)(3) organization that will employ them. 

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 Fiscal Sponsorship  

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Eligibility Restrictions

• Participating organizations will not have or obtain any intellectual property rights to works created by the artists during the time the artists are working independently from (although employed by) their partners.  

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Intellectual Property Rights  

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Selection & Review

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Selection Criteria

• Strength and integrity of the proposed collaboration 
• Alignment of the proposed collaboration with CRNY’s values
• Capacity of the organization to support artists 
• Impact on organization’s financial capacity 

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Centering Relationship and Reciprocity

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Review Process

External peer reviewers

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Stage One: Application Review

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Stage Two: Interviews  

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Invitations for online interviews with collaborators, external reviewers, and CRNY staff

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How to Apply

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How to Apply

• Artists and Organizations work together and co-create a proposal for collaboration
• All parties can submit their information through CRNY’s web-based application platform on Submittable
• The application asks for basic information about each participating artist and organization, and then asks three brief narrative questions about the proposed collaboration

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How to Apply

• An application can be initiated by either an artist or an organizational representative.
• The person who begins the application will be designated as the primary applicant.  

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How to Apply

• Entering their own information  
• Adding additional artists and organizational collaborators to the application
• One organization must be identified as the primary organization; this is the organization that will receive direct funding from CRNY.
• Confirming that all collaborators have submitted their information  
• Submitting the finalized application (with narrative q’s)

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The primary applicant is responsible for:

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How to Apply

• Filling out the form they receive after the primary applicant adds them to the joint application  
• Contributing to narrative questions

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Other collaborators are responsible for:

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Important Dates

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Important Dates

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CRNY’s Guaranteed Income for Artists will provide 2,400 artists with monthly, no-strings attached, cash payments of $1,000 per month for 18 consecutive months. 

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How it Works

1. Application Period
2. Selection 
3. Notification of Selection  
4. Submitting Documentation of Eligibility
5. Verification
6. Benefits Counseling
7. Onboarding

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Who is this for?

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Artists in New York State with financial need

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Eligibility

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Eligibility

• 18 years of age or older as of January 1, 2022 
• Primary residence in New York State at the time of application 
• Have financial need (as determined by the Self-Sufficiency Standard)
• Be an artist, culture bearer, or culture maker   
• Not a staff member or related to a staff member (e.g., an immediate family member) of Tides or Creatives Rebuild New York 

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Financial Need

• The Self-Sufficiency Standard is a measure that helps us understand how much income is necessary to meet basic needs, including: housing, childcare, food, healthcare, transportation, and miscellaneous items,

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• It takes into account various household sizes and compositions as well as differences in geographic costs needed to make ends meet

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*All Self-Sufficiency Standard data produced by the Center for Women’s Welfare at University of Washington are publicly available.

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Selection

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Towards equitable distribution and challenging merit-based grantmaking�

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Our Selection Process

• Randomized process, prioritizing people who hold the following identities or community conditions (in no particular order):
• Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
• Deaf/Disabled
• LGBTQIAP+
• Caregivers
• Immigrants
• Criminal Legal System Involvement
• Lack of Financial Safety Net
• Rural

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What happens after Selection?

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After Selection

• Submitting Documentation of Eligibility + Verification
• Payments
• Opportunities to contribute to research and advocacy work

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Notification April 15^th!

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Supporting you in the process

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Benefits Counseling

• Taking part in CRNY’s Guaranteed Income for Artists might impact city, state, or federal benefits you currently receive

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• For artists who are selected and currently receive benefits will have access to a benefits counselor, to aid in their decision to accept or decline the guaranteed income

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How to Apply

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Application

• The deadline to submit applications is March 25, 2022 at 11:59 PM Eastern  
• Approximately 15 minutes to complete an application
• Questions pertain to eligibility and to account for those who experience barriers to financial security

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Important Dates

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Application Support & Outreach

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Help Desk

• To access the Help Desk, email HelpDesk@creativesrebuildny.org

or call 855-929-3863

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• Live assistance available Monday-Friday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern

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• The Help Desk includes dedicated translators to assist applicants who do not speak English or Spanish, and applicants who are English language learners 

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Artist Outreach Corps

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