Disability Justice for Individual Artists
Disability Justice for Individual Artists
Best practices for funding artists with disabilities
Grantmakers in the Arts
Grantmakers in the Arts is the only national association of both public and private arts and culture funders in the US, including independent and family foundations, public agencies, community foundations, corporate philanthropies, nonprofit regrantors, and national service organizations – funders of all shapes and sizes across the US and into Canada.
In May 2022, we collaborated with our friends at Grantmakers in the Arts to uplift the challenges that asset caps on benefits and assistance programs create for those with disabilities.
The webinar featured Reveca Torres, Executive Director of BACKBONES, and grantee in CCI’s Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Artist-Innovator Fund, Laura Poppiti, Program Director and leader of CCI’s grantmaking programs including the SCI Artist Innovator Fund, and Alex Nock, principal at Penn Hill Group, a DC-based government affairs firm.
Participants discussed the ways asset caps impede grantmaking to artists with disabilities, including specific challenges they encountered, strategies to overcome them, and opportunities for shared advocacy on this topic.
Watch the webinar below!
Benefits for Freelancers
Benefits for Freelancers
Freelancers Union insurance
Freelancers Union
Freelancers Union is the largest and fast-growing organization representing the 56.7 million independent workers across the country. They provide their 500,000+ members a powerful support system and voice through policy advocacy, benefits, resources and community.
Freelancers Union is demonstrating new ways of building collective power and protections for independent workers.
Freelancers Union offers health, vision, and dental insurance, as well as life, disability and liability insurance (at competitive rates), alongside important advocacy, education and community for those who work independently.
As a membership organization and 501 c(4), they are demonstrating new ways of building collective power and protections for independent workers.
Debt Collective
Debt Collective
Building collective power via a new debtors' union
Debt Collective
Debt Collective is a debtors’ union fighting to cancel debts and defend millions of households. Join them to build a world where college is publicly funded, healthcare is universal and housing is guaranteed for all.
Debt Collective is building new forms of collective power for debtors.
Debt Collective is the nation’s first debtors’ union, and they organize around intersecting forms of indebtedness – from medical debt to carceral debt, housing debt to student debt – that characterize life for working people, disproportionately in Black and Brown communities.
The Debt Collective’s work shows that people do not go into debt because they live beyond their means. They go into debt because they are denied the means to live. Housing, education, and healthcare are all out of reach for most people, and people are even forced into debt for their own incarceration. The Debt Collective organizes debtors, including artists, to collectivize their debt and their political voice to force debt relief and changes to the legal and financial system to protect individuals from predatory financial practices. Debt Collective is building power to decommodify basic needs—education, food, shelter, and health—and make sure everyone has a material share of what is rightfully theirs.. Its recent significant wins of student debt relief in 2022 have elevated conversations about how debt exacerbates the racial wealth gap.
Guilded - A Freelancer-Owned Cooperative
Guilded - A Freelancer-Owned Cooperative
Protecting freelancers against wage theft
Guilded Freelancer Cooperative
Guilded is a cooperative committed to empowering freelance workers. They are incubated and informed by the work of the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives. Guilded provides contract management, invoicing, guaranteed payments, tax preparation, and health care.
Guilded offers an exciting new model to build collective power through shared ownership, shared governance, and shared protection.
Guilded is a freelancer-owned cooperative that provides 1099 workers with access to timely guaranteed payment, backend invoicing and tax services, and a range of worker benefits like licensing, insurance, and direct primary care. Guilded creates financial stability while providing freelancers with opportunities to build relationships with other gig workers, collective agency and power, and financial assets as cooperative owners.
Incubated by the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), the national grassroots membership organization for worker cooperatives, Guilded offers an exciting new model to build collective power through shared ownership, shared governance, and shared protection.