Cultural Plan For Recovery (CPR) TOTAL ASK: $70M

$15M - Cultural Equity Fund created as a way of investing in BIPOC led / BIPOC servingcultural organizations in order to establish better equity in arts and cultural funding. Funding willgo to organizations of all sizes to support:

● General operating support for BIPOC led organizations

● Advancement of Anti-racism work - with a priority given to BIPOC-led organizations

This fund begins to undo a history of systemic underfunding of cultural organizations incommunities of color - and reflects decades of activism by those organizations via suchalliances as the Cultural Equity Group. This Cultural Equity Fund also shows NYC'scommitment to the CreateNYC plan by advancing social and racial justice throughout ourcultural field. This fund answers the Urgency of Now.

$30M - Restoration of funding historically added at Adoption split 50/50 between CIGs and CDF funded program groups with a carve-out for CUNY Corps. This demonstrates a restoration of $20.2M from FY21 and an additional $9.8 investment to bring this funding back to prior levels. Also asking the Council for a full restoration of all initiatives, including the baselining of Coalition Theaters of Color.

$5M - Added to DCLA’s budget to increase its capacity to support this investment in New York City’s arts and cultural community.

$10M - Funding for non-profit performing arts, to keep them solvent while they remain shuttered and to support their additional cost when they can reopen. The nonprofit performing arts are uniquely harmed by the pandemic; they were the first to close and will be the last to reopen, and were largely shut out of State aid for for-profit performing arts venues. When these institutions are able to reopen, we anticipate that audiences will be greatly diminished—typically 80% full is the break-even point—and we will incur significant new costs to open safely (such as rapid testing of staff and artists and protocols like CLEAR for audiences). Short term relief will help this sector through this period. Funding should be commensurate with organization size to be meaningful.

$10M - Fund to invest in cultural groups in neighborhoods and communities hardest hit by COVID. Relief grants available to cultural organizations of every size to help them stabilize and recover from the economic devastation of COVID. This fund will target arts and culture groups and independent artists located in and/or doing work in communities hardest hit by COVID - determined by zip codes that had the highest infection and highest death tolls. It can also mean groups and artists in the disabled community who suffered disproportionately. The goal is to save the most vulnerable organizations, most at risk of closing, whose services are the most needed in these neighborhoods which had the fewest cultural assets before COVID.