Lengthy identified for its giving and repair to the leisure {industry}, the Movement Image and Tv Fund is on the receiving finish this time. The 103-year-old MPTF might be honored with the Humanitarian Award on the Location Managers Guild Worldwide‘s LMGI Awards this month.
The LMGI Humanitarian Award acknowledges MPTF’s dedication to their distinctive work on the forefront of offering a variety of well being and social companies to the leisure neighborhood together with healthcare, monetary help, social companies assist, childcare and residential dwelling for the aged, amongst many others. The Bob Beitcher-led group will obtain the glory through the ceremony August 24 on the Wallis Annenberg Heart for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills.
“The Movement Image & Tv Fund has been a lifeline for numerous {industry} professionals, providing essential assist and care since 1921, LMGI President John Rakich stated in a press release. “We’re proud to current them with the 2024 LMGI Humanitarian Award, celebrating their steadfast dedication to the well being and well-being of our movie and tv communities.”
Throughout the Covid pandemic and final yr’s industry-squeezing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, MPTF was a guiding drive in serving to numerous households navigate by way of challenges and offering assist, enabling them to proceed their work. MPTF’s on-campus meals drive a yr in the past served greater than 1,000 households. For the reason that strikes ended, the persevering with job shortages have saved demand for the MPTF’s companies at an all-time excessive for every thing from lease, mortgage, and automobile funds to points with stress and bodily wellness.
“At MPTF, we take our mission of ‘taking good care of our personal’ severely on the subject of our leisure neighborhood’s members in want, stated Beitcher, the group’s president and CEO. “We should at all times be able to be a security internet for tons of, even 1000’s, of staff and their households when a disaster strikes, whether or not it’s a person one like an sickness or monetary battle or an industry-wide one like job shortages, strikes, and the pandemic. It’s an honor to be acknowledged for the work our compassionate crew does each single day.”
