Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants provide one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need.
About the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (RRF) partnered with New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) to launch the Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants in March 2020, and is designed in the spirit of Change, Inc. Robert Rauschenberg was committed to assisting fellow artists in need of emergency medical aid, ultimately establishing the nonprofit foundation Change, Inc. in 1970. In this spirit, this program is designed to serve artists in financial need who otherwise may delay critical treatment or incur substantial and perhaps overwhelming debt. The program recognizes the urgency of caring for and helping one another and, while artists are famously self-sufficient, it encourages artists to ask for support when needed.