A CAMPAIGN TO EXPAND AND UPGRADE AN ACCLAIMED RESIDENCE

THE HOME
The Lillian Booth Actors' Home of The Actors Fund welcomes performing arts and entertainment professionals – designers, writers, technicians, musicians, dancers, administrators, directors, editors, stagehands … and actors – and their families. Current residents include actors, vaudevillians, Ziegfeld Follies dancers, comedians, band leaders and set designers. Among the most famous residents were Joseph Sultzer and Charles Marks, better known as the comedy team of Smith and Dale and the inspiration for Neil Simon's hit play and movie The Sunshine Boys.

The Actors Fund, founded in 1882, is the national human services organization that supports and serves the entire performing arts and entertainment community.  The Fund provides social services, health services, employment and training programs, emergency financial assistance, and supportive and affordable housing.

The Fund also cares for 109 seniors at its Home – 42 in assisted living and 67 in skilled nursing.  Top-quality care is provided in a beautiful six-acre setting in Englewood, New Jersey.  This care is enhanced through programs and services designed to address the unique needs of people who have lived and worked in entertainment.

A VITAL EXPANSION
The needs of this community are growing and, over the next ten years, the number of Americans between the ages of 75 and 84 will increase by 28%, and those over 84 by 42%. Already, applicants hoping to move into our skilled nursing home are too often asked to wait, or referred elsewhere, because there aren’t enough beds available to meet the demand.

It is critically important that The Actors Fund act now to meet this growing need, and has launched a capital campaign to raise $5.5 million to:

• Add 15 beds to the skilled nursing facility, increasing capacity from 67 to 82.
• Expand sub-acute care, offering more residents IV therapies, wound care, pain management, and hospice.
• Create a state-of-the-art rehabilitation and activities wing to provide physical, occupational and speech therapies.
• Renovate the lobby to enhance security, improve reception services and promote access to management and care staff.

HOW YOU CAN HELP
There are many ways to stand up and be counted as a part of the “Sunshine Boys Campaign” for the Actors Fund Home – from a general gift to the Campaign or by memorializing your commitment through a Named Opportunity.

CONTACT

The Fund would be pleased to answer your questions, provide a tour of the Home, and to discuss the many options with you.

For more information, please contact:

Megan Barrett
212.221.7300 ext. 108
MBarrett@actorsfund.org

GROUNDBREAKING AT THE LILLIAN BOOTH ACTORS' HOME – APRIL 17, 2006
L TO R – ACTORS FUND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JOE BENINCASA, TRUSTEES LILLIAN BOOTH AND FRAN GAAR, ACTORS FUND PRESIDENT BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL, BERGEN COUNTY EXECUTIVE DENNIS MCNERNEY, TONY AWARD WINNER [THE JERSEY BOYS] JOHN LLOYD YOUNG, NJ STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS CHAIRMAN CAROL HERBERT, TRUSTEE STEVE KALAFER, DOMINIC CHIANESE [THE SOPRANOS], AND JAMES EARL JONES

There is tremendous progress on the construction and upgrading of The Home. For additional photographs of the progress click here: