EXCLUSIVE: Today is Giving Day at the Motion Picture & Television Fund – a day on which it celebrates the 101st anniversary of its first donation. But on this Giving Day, the MPTF is sending ou…
told Deadline: “Giving Day is about celebrating the past 101 years, which is truly remarkable, and it’s about our vision of the future. I want everyone to know that this is a place that is like their alma mater. There’s a lot going on in this world and there’s a lot of instability in life, but this is the most incredible industry on the planet. So we want to thank them for the work that they do, and we want them to be there for us as well.
Direct financial assistance accounted for 28% of needs at intake. In 2021, the MPTF gave out more than $3.5 million in financial assistance. Of the 4,644 people served by the charity’s community and campus services last year, more than half were members of IATSE or SAG-AFTRA. But Covid-related expenses are still piling up. “Even if Covid is less on people’s minds and we think we’re getting back to normal, we’ll spend $2 million this year,” he said. “On a campus like ours, when one person gets sick, you have to open an isolation unit, you have to bring in new staff, you have to start wearing PPE, and you have to start testing twice a week. It triggers a whole set of activities that are expensive.
“And when it’s restricted and you can’t come to campus, there are ways to get on the phone or write a note, and there are various ways to volunteer in the community: food delivery for people who are dealing with food insecurity issues. We also have a Next Gen group who help provide gifts to our residents and gifts to people in the community, and they have networking mixers. And it’s important because we really need the next generation of Hollywood to know who we are.
“The industry changed,” he said. “It no longer, for whatever reason – corporate ownership – it just stopped being part of the HR on-boarding process. Part of it was that most people who worked for the studios – in camera departments and lighting departments, all those crafts departments – those departments were shut down; they all became freelance, and so they’re on seven payrolls in a year. And it’s hard to do Payroll Pledge and track them every time they move to a different production.
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