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New York isn’t New York

without artists.

Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY) was a three-year, $125 million initiative that provided guaranteed income and employment opportunities to artists across New York State. CRNY believed that artists are workers who deserve equitable, sustainable support structures, and that improving the lives of artists is paramount to the vitality of New York State’s collective social and economic wellbeing. CRNY believed that local organizations are crucial to community strength, artist employment opportunities, and the health of our economy. Fiscally sponsored by Tides Center, CRNY represented a $125 million funding commitment, anchored by $115 million from the Mellon Foundation and $5 million each from the Ford Foundation and Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). 

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NYS Policy Playbook

Policy Initiatives
New York Isn’t New York Without Artists is a long-term, step-by-step playbook for city and state lawmakers to reference as they enact policies that empower artists—a labor force integral to the state’s economy—and improve conditions for all workers in the state.

NYS Cash Alliance

Advocacy Infrastructure
Creatives Rebuild New York founded the New York State Cash Alliance alongside over 20 member organizations collaboratively leading the way for unrestricted cash policies across the state.

Impact

Guaranteed Income Research
The Guaranteed Income for Artists Impact Study was a multidisciplinary, collaborative research effort to document and assess the impact of guaranteed income payments on artists’ lives and livelihoods.

Impact

Artist Employment Research
Honoring the many ways that knowledge can be collected, understood, and shared, CRNY commissioned two approaches to evaluating the impacts of the Artist Employment Program on participating artists and community-based organizations.

Art Takes Work

Campaigns
A six-week, statewide campaign and film designed to build awareness about the lives and livelihoods of artists, and to drive stakeholders to advocate for timely, actionable policy solutions for cultural workers.

Voices for Creative New York

Advocacy Infrastructure
Voices for Creative New York provides a blueprint for the creation of a statewide collaborative focused on arts advocacy and creative worker organizing. Five organizations will lead the planning process after CRNY has closed.

Deaf & Disability Arts

Research
A collection of projects about the lives and livelihoods of Deaf and disabled artists, led by Artist-Organizer Kevin Gotkin.

Bill of Rights

Basebuilding
The Artists and Cultural Workers' Bill of Rights aims to address the systemic inequities and labor concerns facing artists and cultural workers, emphasizing fair compensation, safe working conditions, and transparent decision making.

Portrait of NYS Artists

Research
A 2022 survey that collected social, financial, and well-being data from over 13,000 individual artists across New York State.
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