MusiCares: MusiCares is offering immediate assistance to anyone who has worked in the music business for 5 years or longer: $1500 in financial assistance and $500 in food vouchers.
Email: musicaresrelief@musicares.org
Call: 1-800-687-4227
Web: link
Entertainment Community Fund : Emergency Financial Assistance is available for eligbale performing arts and entertaiment professons.
Web: link
The Sweet Relief Music Fund: The Sweet Relief Music Fund also confirmed this week that it’s accepting applications and taking donations over the wildfires. That fund is intended to help pay for destroyed music equipment, as well as any potential medical bills related to the fires.
Web: link
Inevitable Foundation: The Inevitable Foundation, a non-profit working to close the disability representation gap in the entertainment industry, has re-opened their Emergency Relief Fund to directly support disabled creatives impacted by the crisis. This includes destroyed homes, unforeseen evacuation costs, negative health impacts, and lost employment as a result of the ongoing fires.
Hollywood Food Coalition: The Hollywood Food Coalition is hosts community dinners every night of the week starting at 6:30 p.m. at two Hollywood locations. Food is also being provided by the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank and Food Share Ventura County (multiple locations for the latter, see here for more information).
Uber/Lyft Credits: Residents in Los Angeles County who’ve been ordered to vacate their homes can get a credit from Uber to get to an evacuation site. The $40 will only be valid for trips to an active shelter and by using the code “WILDFIRE25.” Lyft is also offering $25 vouchers, valid for two trips, to 500 customers from now until midnight on Jan. 15. Use the code “CAFIRERELIEF25” to get the promotion.
Guitar Center: There are number of fake posts going on with Guitar Center, but the correct one, posted from their FB is as follows: Los Angeles musicians and artists, we’re with you, and we’re here to help. Have you lost instruments and gear? If you’ve been impacted by this week’s fires, please visit our website for information and to request instrument replacement assistance. The Guitar Center Music Foundation is committed to supporting our music community in times of need.
Website: guitarcenterfoundation.org/fires
Backline: Mental health non-profit Backline is sharing resources for musicians in Los Angeles via social media and offering its own services. “Know that Backline is here for you and that you are not alone,” the organization wrote on Instagram. “You can reach out to us via our case submission form and a Case Manager will contact you to help you get the long-term support you need. If you need immediate assistance, please reach out to the Disaster Distress Hotline for free 24/7 support by calling 1-800-985-5990.”
Website: https://backline.care/
Uhaul: Our hearts and thoughts are with those who have been affected by a natural disaster. U-Haul has a long-time policy of assisting those in need during natural disasters, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, fires, etc., by offering 30 days of free storage at participating U-Haul self-storage facilities on an as-available basis.
In addition to the 30-days-free self-storage assistance program, U-Haul works directly with the American Red Cross, the military and local police and fire departments in their efforts to get much-needed relief supplies to areas affected "by natural disasters. Because the need is so great, this is where we have chosen to focus our corporate efforts
Website: www.uhaul.com
GoFundMe: Aside from the official funds, Some in the community have taken matters into their own hands as well, with a quickly-growing spreadsheet now circulating to share GoFundMe links and other immediate needs for those in the music business who’ve lost their homes. That spreadsheet also includes other links to relief resources.
