Partnerships

Thrive On and Off the Stage

  • We are proud to partner with Howard Brown Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center that offers comprehensive medical care and services. This partnership ensures that dance professionals in Chicago have access to high-quality health care, regardless of their ability to pay.

    • Services Offered: Primary medical care, behavioral healthcare, HIV/STI prevention, youth and elder services, and more.

    • Clinic Locations: Choose from several locations including our clinic of choice for CDHF members at 1525 E. 55th Street and the Broadway Youth Center for young professionals.

    • If in need of a referral or resources, please get in touch with CDHF's Operations Coordinator at 312-678-7919 or info@cdhf.org

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  • Our official orthopedic and physical therapy services provider offers significant discounts to uninsured Chicago dance professionals, ensuring that everyone in our community has access to essential rehabilitative services.

    • Services Offered: Specialized physical therapy and orthopedic care tailored to the unique needs of dancers.

    • Certified Performing Arts Medical Program (PAMP): Founded in 1985, this program provides performance-oriented medical evaluation and treatment of medical problems that incur in instrumentalists, singers, dancers, and actors at all performance levels.

    • Empowering Recovery: SRAL is committed to delivering distinctive healthcare solutions and superior patient experience in an artist-centered manner considering the unique demands of the individual's art form. Our partnership extends the reach of our grants, allowing more members of our community to benefit from high-level care without the financial burden.

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  • Improving lives for people living with HIV and AIDS for more than 25 years. In 1985, physicians, advocates, and community members came together to form AFC to support the HIV community. More than 35 years later, AFC continues this critical lifesaving work to end the HIV epidemic and ensure everyone has a home in Chicago and beyond. Thank you for being part of our movement for equity and justice!

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  • We are a leading cancer-fighting organization with a vision to end cancer as we know it, for everyone. We are improving the lives of people with cancer and their families as the only organization combating cancer through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer. 

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  • The Entertainment Community Fund, formerly The Actors Fund, is a 501 (c)(3) charitable organization that supports performers and behind-the-scenes workers in performing arts and entertainment, helping more than 17,000 people directly each year.

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  • Founded in 1987, Season of Concern Chicago is dedicated to providing financial assistance to Chicagoland theater practitioners, both Equity and Non-Equity, impacted by illness, injury or circumstance that prevents them from working. We provide short-term emergency financial assistance to theater practitioners through our own Biscotto-Miller Fund and Malcolm Ewen Emergency Fund.

    Originally formed to assist those afflicted with AIDS-related illnesses, Season of Concern continues to support over 25 Chicago-based direct care HIV/AIDS organizations and has expanded its mission and support to meet the greater health needs of the Chicagoland theater community. Season of Concern relies on fundraising and donations to complete its mission. To date, we have distributed more than $3 million to those in need.

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