Actors' Fund
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The Actors' Fund of America is a non-profit national umbrella charitable organization founded in 1882, with a broad mandate to provide assistance to all those in need from the entertainment professions. Maintaining offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, it is associated with, and helps coordinate the work of, a wide range of sister organizations which are able to raise money through donation, including Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the guild/union relief funds of Actors' Equity, AFTRA; AGMA; AGVA; Episcopal Actors' Guild; The Jazz Foundation; the Professional Dancers Society; MusiCares, and Society of Singers.
The Fund has merged with the Actors' Work Program, which offers individual career counseling, workshops, tuition grants and scholarships for entertainment union members, and provides job listings. It has a current annual budget of $21,000,000.
The Actors' Fund runs the six acre Lillian Booth Actors' Home, in Englewood, New Jersey, which is a nursing home and assisted care facility for retired members of the entertainment community regardless of resources, and is affiliated with a similar facility in Southern California, the Motion Picture and Television Fund in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.
