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Actors Fund Has Provided Nearly $3.5M In Financial Assistance To Industry Professionals In Past 3 Weeks; It Had Averaged $2M A Year
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deadline.comBy David Robb Labor Editor Requests for assistance from the Actors Fund have skyrocketed during the industry’s coronavirus shutdown.
During the past three weeks, the Fund has provided nearly $3.5 million in direct financial assistance to 2,837 industry professionals.
By comparison, before the pandemic, the Fund averaged about $2 million a year in emergency grants to performers and behind-the-scenes entertainment industry workers nationwide. “Another stunning comparison number is that in normal times we issue about 70 grants per week across the country, but in the last three weeks we’ve geared up and are providing about 200 grants per day,” Actors Fund Western Regional Director Keith McNutt told Deadline. “So the need in our community is
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