COVID-19 Relief Fund Raises $500,000 To Aid Hollywood’s Assistants And Support Staffers
The Hollywood Assist Employees COVID-19 Reduction Fund has raised greater than $500,000 to assist assistants, coordinators, PAs and different trade assist staffers who’ve been laid off or whose hours have been minimize as a result of coronavirus shutdown. The fund was created by the #PayUpHollywood group, the ScriptNotes podcast and the nonprofit YEA!
The primary subject of Join, a brand new WGA West digital publication, notes that the reduction fund’s co-founder, Liz Alper, initially projected on March 20 that $100,000 “might present reduction from between 111-222 LA-based assist staffers. Now, we mission we might help between 500-800 certified candidates whereas nonetheless rising the stipend quantities for everybody.” Alper, a member of the guild’s board of administrators, was the co-founder of #PayUpHollywood and coiner of the hashtag.
“All through all of it, our best allies have at all times been writers,” Alper instructed the guild. “After we launched our #SupportOurSupportStaffs GoFundMe marketing campaign to boost reduction funds for Hollywood assist workers, writers as soon as once more led the cost; the outpouring of generosity, from distinguished showrunners to newly minted screenwriters, impressed the remainder of the trade to achieve out to Hollywood’s most susceptible. To be a author in Hollywood is to be a frontrunner; I’m grateful to all of you and proud to be one in all you.”
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