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Thurs. April 29 '10 |
Your support for The Actors Fund helps more than 11,000 people in performing arts and entertainment every year - each with their own story to tell. We hope you enjoy these updates on our latest events, as well as stories and video about people helped by The Fund.
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The Annual Gala and Campaign raise $10.8 million The Actors Fund helps… Maria through the HIV/AIDS Initiative |
5 Questions for… Ram Koppaka, In the Spotlight member Why I walk for The Actors Fund… |
Three stars of stage, screen and business help raise $10.8 million On April 12, we celebrated our Annual Gala at the Marriott Marquis in New York City, marking the close of a year-long Special Campaign: Responding to Essential and Evolving Needs. The Fund saluted the leadership and commitment of our three campaign co-chairs, three-time Academy Award nominee Annette Bening, four-time Tony Award-winning producer Kevin McCollum, and Loews Hotels Chairman and CEO Jonathan Tisch.
................................................................................................................. MARIA: A hip-hop music promoter’s ten-year journey from a deadly diagnosis to being months away from her Bachelor’s degree with the help of The Actors Fund. “It would be tragic if The Fund was not there for everyone in entertainment with HIV/AIDS. Every penny that you give counts.” --Maria Read Maria’s story.
TANNER: A young performer whose career brings his family from Olympia, Washington to Asia to Hollywood – and to a community of kids at The Actors Fund. “Words cannot adequately express what a great job The Actors Fund staff does… Being associated with The Fund’s Looking Ahead program has been incredibly rewarding and fun for Tanner and our family.” --Steve (Tanner’s dad) Read Tanner’s story. .................................................................................................................. Apples and Oranges Productions captures the mission of The Fund This March, Apples and Oranges Productions visited The Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, NJ, and the Dorothy Ross Friedman Residence (formerly the Aurora) in Manhattan, recording moving stories about people in performing arts and entertainment helped by The Actors Fund.
.................................................................................................................. 5 questions for…. Ram Koppaka In The Spotlight donor & Volunteer Physician for The Actors Fund’s Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic. Click here to read interview.
.................................................................................................................. Why I walk for The Actors Fund... Karen Zabinski, IATSE Local No. 1,
Theatrical Stage Employees
.................................................................................................................. Morgan Freeman & guests celebrate Edwin Forrest Day Each year on Edwin Forrest Day, The Actors Fund's Edwin Forrest Society members (EFS), gather to celebrate Shakespeare, and the legacy of Edwin Forrest - the first star of the American theatre, whose namesake retirement home in Philadelphia merged with The Actors Fund's Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, NJ in the 1980s. EFS boasts more than 500 individuals who have made provisions in their estate for gifts to The Actors Fund.
This April we celebrated The Bard’s 446th birthday on both coasts. At The Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, NJ, and for the
first time ever in Los Angeles, at the home of generous donors Alba
Francesca and James Karen.
In Los Angeles, Alba Francesca and James Karen greeted EFS donors who enjoyed a reading from Academy Award® winner Morgan Freeman of Shakespeare’s the seven stages of man speech by Jacques, from As You Like It. Mr. Freeman said, “It was an honor to be asked to read
for The Actors Fund. I feel lucky to be a part of this community.”
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