The Motion Picture & Television Fund is seeking matching contributions to double the $250,000 pledged by the John and Marilyn Wells Family Foundation to help defray the cost of PPE and food for…
Board of Governors and a former WGA West president. “We have to pull together to get through these difficult times and show we’re a community that cares about our coworkers!” he said in a statement.John & Marilyn Wells Joined By Billy Ray, Mark Gordon & Other Industry Creatives In Raising Money For MPTF Emergency Fund
Robert Jensen, materials manager director at the MPTF, made an impassioned appeal to the industry today for assistance. “If I were going to say something to you, to the people who care about MPTF, it would be to say we need your help; we need your donations. This disaster is monumental. But it’s not bigger than us, if we all pitch in.”
In a mass email to supporters, Jensen wrote: “Months ago, when this whole thing was just a whisper, before the quarantines and before the general public was walking around with face masks, we decided to stand up an isolation wing on our campus. Just in case. It was done with urgency and it was expensive. That decision proved to be more prescient than we could have known. 17 of our residents have been treated there.
Iso wing setup: facilities air systems, plumbing, electrical, inventory supplies, computers, WiFi, phones, medical equipment, bed rentals: $96,000“Line by line, it may not seem like much,” he wrote, “but when you take these simple numbers and multiply them by the need and the stakes, it’s been like nothing I’ve ever experienced.”
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