By David Robb Labor Editor The Hollywood Support Staff COVID-19 Relief Fund has raised more than $500,000 to help assistants, coordinators, PAs and other industry support staffers who have been laid off or whose hours have been cut due to the coronavirus shutdown.
The fund was created by the #PayUpHollywood organization, the ScriptNotes podcast and the nonprofit YEA! The first issue of Connect, a new WGA West digital publication, notes that the relief fund’s co-founder, Liz Alper, originally projected on March 20 that $100,000 “could provide relief from between 111-222 LA-based support staffers.
Now, we project we can help between 500-800 qualified applicants while still increasing the stipend amounts for everyone.” Alper, a member of the
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