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 will likely be honored with the Humanitarian Award on the Location Managers Guild International‘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 providers to the leisure neighborhood together with healthcare, monetary help, social providers assist, childcare and residential residing for the aged, amongst many others. The Bob Beitcher-led group will obtain the glory in the course of the ceremony August 24 on the Wallis Annenberg Middle 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 mentioned in an announcement. “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 pressure 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 stored demand for the MPTF’s providers at an all-time excessive for every thing from lease, mortgage, and automotive funds to points with stress and bodily wellness.
“At MPTF, we take our mission of ‘taking good care of our personal’ critically relating to our leisure neighborhood’s members in want, mentioned Beitcher, the group’s president and CEO. “We should at all times be able to be a security web for a whole lot, even 1000’s, of employees and their households when a disaster strikes, whether or not it’s a person one like an sickness or monetary wrestle or an industry-wide one like job shortages, strikes, and the pandemic. It’s an honor to be acknowledged for the work our compassionate group does each single day.”
