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        <title><![CDATA[Actors Fund distributes $10.5M in financial assistance amid shutdown]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Broadway <strong>shutdown continues</strong> with the <strong>coronavirus pandemic</strong> affecting some 87,000 jobs in the process. The Actors Fund, which <strong>launched its COVID-19 emergency relief fund</strong> in March, has come to the community&#8217;s rescue — distributing more than $10 million to displaced theater personnel in just eight weeks.</p><p>The <strong>record-breaking fund</strong>, which totals $10,500,000, provides basic living expenses such as essential medications, housing costs, food and utilities, <strong>Broadway World reports</strong>.</p><p>&#8220;The kind of collaboration and generosity we&#8217;ve seen over the past two months from our entertainment industry union and guild partners, including SAG-AFTRA, Actors&#8217; Equity, and the IATSE, as well as thousands of individual donors, has been nothing short of staggering,&#8221; said Actors Fund President and CEO Joseph Benincasa in a statement.</p><p>&#8220;It is an unbelievable honor to be able to do so much good for so many people, thanks to the unprecedented level of support we continue to receive.&#8221;</p><p>Chairman of the Actors Fund board, Brian Stokes Mitchell, 62, told the outlet: &#8220;Looking at a number — even one as large as $10 million — doesn&#8217;t begin [to] tell the whole story. In an instant, our friends and supporters, <strong>people like Rosie O&#8217;Donnell</strong>, Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley and others, began dreaming of entirely new fund-raising models that would prove to be nothing short of lifesaving. In all my years working with the Fund, I&#8217;ve never been so moved, so inspired, or so grateful.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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