Using the data provided through this survey, the following policy or program/service recommendations are offered:

1. Urge policymakers to continue dedicated state and federal support for California’s creative industries. If and when a second relief package includes state funding, advocate for a dedicated funding stream to creative businesses and organizations that are still closed due to the state’s blueprint for reopening.
2. Urge the Newsom Administration to issue guidelines for live events and performing arts so businesses have ample time to prepare venues and staffing for a safe reopening.
3. Consider state supported outdoor pop-up events across the state to acclimate patrons to return to live events safely and demonstrate that safe behavior protocols are possible while experiencing something that brings communities together.
4. Urge policymakers to recognize that California’s recovery must include the reopening of live events and a successful return of the creative industries.
5. Consider financial assistance programs that both support organizations to reopen more quickly, while providing interim support to keep them working until it is safe to reopen.
6. Explore the ways in which small investments can have strong results such as grants of less than $10,000 to organizations that have minimal requirements for reopening.
7. Provide not only financial assistance in the form of operating grants, but funding for organizations to prepare to reopen in compliance with AB 5, create new business models for future sustainability, and organizational development to restructure when they start to rehire.
8. Create a state level payroll system to make compliance with wage and benefits requirements easier for small organizations and businesses.
9. As relief funding opportunities arise, consider creating and implementing an initiative to ensure that organizations have access to information early and often as well as to workshops or other technical assistance to help them make applications for financial relief.