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

MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. MusiCares’ services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies, and each case is treated with integrity and confidentiality. MusiCares also focuses the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly influence the health and welfare of the music community.

The mission of The Haven Foundation is to offer interim financial assistance to freelance professionals in the arts who face crises. The Foundation’s reach is the United States, and its awards are granted with a view to helping individuals overcome temporary adversity and return to full-time work.

Changes in the music industry have left many behind including underground legends, session players and even the big names themselves. When age, illness, or disaster threatens a long career, many have nowhere to turn. These musicians have been saving us with their music our entire lives. These are dignified people who never think to ask for help. Our lifesaving programs turn despair into hope.

We are dedicated to providing emergency funding and resources to financially distressed individuals in the creative and performing arts for housing, medical and legal aid. One time grants are awarded ranging from $500-$1000. Special consideration is given, but not limited to, Max’s Kansas City’s extended family, (those who worked at Max’s or were Max’s patrons).

We are also committed to empowering teens through the arts with a focus on substance abuse and suicide prevention by mentoring and motivating them to make healthy choices, offering an ongoing process to aid them in building the personal skills needed to inspire them to lead healthy, productive lives. Our FEARLESS YOUTH Program is characterized by a positive skills building approach, introducing teens to the creative arts as an outlet to meet the challenges of life in constructive ways, mentoring them and raising awareness on the dangers and consequences of substance abuse and addiction.

Musicians Foundation is formed to foster the interests and advance the condition and social welfare of professional musicians and to provide voluntary aid and assistance to professional musicians and their families in case of need. (Est. 1914)

Create fund-raising opportunities and solicit donations in order to maintain a cash deposit reserve to be used for donations to musicians or to like-minded organizations.

RDRF operates an Emergency Assistance Fund that provides individual grants to help music people recover from accidents, cancer treatment, medical emergencies, natural disasters, drug and alcohol rehabilitation and other unavoidable emergencies. These grants typically cover immediate living expenses and medical bills.

RDRF also has partnerships with providers to provide discounted dental, vision and hearing care as well as free assistance finding affordable health insurance.

Grants for entertainment technologists.

The Blues Foundation established the HART Fund (Handy Artists Relief Trust) for Blues musicians and their families in financial need due to a broad range of health concerns. The Fund provides for acute, chronic and preventive medical and dental care as well as funeral and burial expenses. Throughout the year at various events the HART Fund provides free health screenings for musicians, with services including but not limited to checking blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, prostate cancer, Hep C, anemia, thyroid, kidney and liver testing via blood work.

Music Health Alliance’s mission is to find solutions and restore health and hope for music industry professionals nationwide. MHA helps clients understand and enroll in health insurance, walks alongside clients who are navigating a new diagnosis, connects those in need to vital health care resources, and helps clients with negotiating and reducing medical bills. MHA also has several grant funds that assist clients with therapy, diagnostic care, medical bills, dental care, and senior care.

To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.

Founded by Godsmack, The Scars Foundation helps raise awareness of mental health issues by providing resources and tools to educate and empower people on a global level that struggle with these burdens.

NAMI provides advocacy, education, support and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.

Founded by music industry veteran Shanti Das, Silence The Shame empowers and educates communities on mental health and wellness through community conversations, wellness trainings, compelling content, and outreach programs.

The charter Celebrity Alliance launched with a formal rally with over 300 supporters in attendance on November 14th, 2017, in New York City. There, The Alliance introduced their “#SameHere” Movement, uniting the world through one ASL sign language hand gesture (you see depicted in their logos and profile pictures) that communicates – no matter where we live, or what our background or our accolades, we all go through life’s inevitable challenges, and we should have a society where it is openly acceptable to talk about those challenges, thus: “#SameHere!” Video. Find out more about the origin story which led to The Alliance’s usage of #SameHere.

The SIMS Foundation provides mental health and substance use recovery services and supports for musicians, music industry professionals, and their dependent family members. Through education, community partnerships, and accessible managed care, SIMS seeks to destigmatize and reduce mental health and substance use issues, while supporting and enhancing the wellbeing of the music community at large.

Porter's Call provides a safe and confidential refuge for touring recording artists and their partners/spouses to receive mental health guidance and support uniquely tailored to the challenges they face both on and off the stage. The services at Porter’s Call are offered to every eligible artist at no charge and available in-person or virtually. Having cared for thousands of artists and their families, Porter's Call is a trusted and integral part of the music landscape in Nashville and beyond.

Our mission is to prevent suicide. With a focus on musicians, Nuçi’s Space advocates for and helps to alleviate the suffering for those living with a brain illness and fights to end the stigma of mental illness.

Music Industry Therapist Collective is an award-winning international network of specialist music industry therapists. Each of our therapists has personal experience of working in the music business, prior to retraining. We deliver individual, group, relationship and band therapy, welfare consultation, workshops and seminars to organisations like Warner Music Group, AEG, SXSW and more. Our landmark publication Touring and Mental Health: the Music Industry Manual was released in 2023.

Sound Mind's mission is to foster community and healing on mental health through the power of music. Our events and programs create safe spaces where music and open conversations about mental health coexist - this includes Sound Mind Center, a hub in NYC for music and arts as a source of healing and connection on mental health - ranging from support groups to yoga and sound meditation to live concert events. Sound Mind also hosts and annual Music Festival for Mental Health in NYC each May

We’re collecting information through a research-based, online inquiry into the details that are affecting our physical and mental health as artists and touring professionals.

The Clinic is committed to providing a safe space for roadies and their families to heal while off the road, and to advocate for – and empower them to obtain – a healthy work environment while on the road. Their vision is “Healthy road life. Healthy home life.”

To develop, promote and sponsor trusted culturally-relevant educational forums, trainings and referral services that support the health and well-being of Black people and vulnerable communities.

Open Path Psychotherapy Collective is a non-profit nationwide network of mental health professionals dedicated to providing in-office and online mental health care—at a steeply reduced rate—to individuals, couples, children, and families in need.

MusiCares provides a safety net of critical assistance for music people in times of need. MusiCares’ services and resources cover a wide range of financial, medical and personal emergencies, and each case is treated with integrity and confidentiality. MusiCares also focuses the resources and attention of the music industry on human service issues that directly influence the health and welfare of the music community.

At The Phoenix, we’re fueling a movement that builds on the power of community and belonging to change how society approaches addiction and recovery. Through hundreds of weekly sober events and activities, we’re creating safe spaces for all individuals to connect, build friendships, find support, and have fun.

You Are Accountable provides a flexible virtual recovery coaching and monitoring program for individuals with substance use disorders. Clients engage in weekly individual coaching sessions to create wellness plans based on the 9 dimensions of wellness. We ensure additional accountability and safety through virtual drug and alcohol monitoring. By partnering with family members and clinical professionals, we offer a comprehensive approach to overall wellness.

The national organization works with artists, promoters, management and venues nationwide to donate unused backstage meals to community organizations that feed the homeless, hungry and food insecure. Musically Fed identifies the opportunities, procures the resources, and coordinates all aspects of food handling, transport, and distribution. Our daily goal is to make it easy for promoters and performers to leave each city they visit with a lasting positive impact.

Optimized Touring provides health and wellness services for the touring community, across Nutrition, Fitness, Stress, Sleep, Hydration and Habit Development, as well as providing personalized 1:1 health coaching from integrative health coaches for clients of all backgrounds.

Sound Nutrition was thoughtfully developed by registered dietitian, yoga teacher, and integrative health expert Emmaline Rasmussen. Emmaline holds a degree in integrative medicine from Georgetown University and utilizes a holistic approach to support artists and creative professionals in enjoying long, productive careers in the music industry. Having toured herself and experienced first-hand the challenges of life on the road, Emmaline simplifies wellness on- and off-tour by making healthy food readily available and supporting artists and crew through comprehensive wellness programming.

Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Music Minds Matter is Help Musicians’ dedicated mental health support line and service for the whole UK music community.

Music Support’s mission is to provide help and support to peers who work in music and live events affected by mental ill-health and/or addiction and to promote early intervention through support services, education, and workshops.

Help Musicians is a charity for professional musicians of all genres, both in work and in retirement. They help at times of crisis, but also at times of opportunity, giving people the support they need at the crucial stages that could make or break their career.

Formed in 2010 with one simple but important goal in mind: to ensure that the people who make up the Canadian music business never face times of crisis alone. Created by the industry, for the industry, they deliver life-saving emergency financial services and professional counseling that offer much-needed hope to those in need.

A nationwide organization that promotes mental health and supports people recovering from mental illness.