Leveraging Investments in Creativity

(Brooklyn, NY)	Total Award: $100,000 over 2 years
National Artists' Insurance Initiative	Program Contribution Arts and Culture Program, $50,000 Interprogram Initiatives for Social and Economic Justice, $50,000

To support the National Artists' Insurance Initiative which will increase artists' access to health, life, retirement and business insurance and expand artists' engagement with healthcare policy reform efforts. Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC) is a new organization that was created in response to a three-year research project undertaken by the Urban Institute to document and analyze existing programs of support for artists; and to propose ways to enhance the structures that facilitate artists' work and their contributions to American life. LINC will convene field leaders to share information and build a national network of innovators; generate and disseminate useful information on successful models of increasing artists' access to insurance; and encourage artists' participation in state and national alliances for health care reform. Products will include reports from the convenings of field leaders, a summary of available information and research regarding artists and insurance, a database of successful innovations and a plan of action to mobilize artists on insurance related policy issues.

This grant also satisfies:

Arts and Culture Program: Objective II, Strategy 1
Interprogram Initiatives for Social and Economic Justice: Objectives I & II