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  • American Federation of Musicians: The Lester Petrillo Memorial Fund
    The Lester Petrillo Memorial Fund for Disabled Musicians provides a modest grant to temporarily or permanently disabled musicians who are members of the AFM.

  • American Guild of Musical Artists Relief Fund
    AGMA members in good standing may be eligible for emergency financial assistance. Grants are administered by the Actors Fund from the New York, Chicago and Los Angeles offices.

  • Grand Ole Opry Trust Fund
    Any person who has been employed full time in the country music industry may be eligible for financial aid from the Opry Trust Fund.

  • Jazz Foundation of America
    The Musicians' Emergency Fund offers aid to elder jazz and blues musicians in crisis.

  • Musicians Foundation
    Musicians Foundation helps professional musicians by providing emergency financial assistance in meeting current living, medical and allied expenses. All professional musicians are eligible to apply.

  • Motown/Universal Music Group Fund
    The fund provides grants for assistance to R&B recording artists formerly affiliated with Universal Music Group and any of its labels to ensure that artists in need have access to financial resources for health, welfare and medical needs.

  • Musicians Foundation
    Musicians Foundation helps professional musicians by providing emergency financial assistance in meeting current living, medical and allied expenses. All professional musicians are eligible to apply.

  • Music Maker Relief Foundation
    The Musical Sustenance Program gives grants to meet basic life needs and emergency relief to people 55 years or older and rooted in a Southern musical tradition.

  • Professional Musicians Local 47
    The Local 47 Musicians' Relief Fund is an emergency assistance fund that helps cover expenses when a member musician is in financial distress and cannot work due to a sudden illness or injury.

  • Society of Singers
    SOS helps singers who have financial needs resulting from personal, family, or medical crises. Applicants must have derived their primary income from professional singing for five or more years.

  • Sweet Relief Musicians Fund 
    Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians who are struggling to make ends meet while facing illness, disability, or age-related problems.

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This page was updated 03/21/11.