So You Want To Start an Emergency Relief Fund

The Personal Emergency Relief Fund is a long-standing program of Springboard for the Arts, an economic and community development organization for artists and by artists based in Fergus Falls and Saint Paul, MN. The purpose of the Fund is to provide short-term, immediate relief to artists who are facing lost income or unexpected expenses due to situations like theft, illness, fire, flood, natural disaster, or in this current moment, global pandemics disrupting economic and social systems as we know them.