ABOUT:

The AGMA Relief Fund offers vital emergency support and temporary financial assistance to AGMA members facing hardship. In partnership with the Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund), this program is administered nationwide and includes access to a wide range of professional social services.

AGMA members in good standing, or on honorable withdrawal, can apply to the AGMA Relief Fund for emergency assistance.

The AGMA Relief Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization administered by the Entertainment Community Fund. All contributions are fully tax-deductible.

HISTORY:

The AGMA Relief Fund was established in January 1945 at a meeting of the AGMA Board of Governors “to aid indigent, needy and impoverished Artists who have no adequate source of income and have fallen upon bad days.” The American Guild of Musical Artists had been a labor union for just nine years when it founded the AGMA Relief Fund.

Some of the AGMA leaders at the time were industry-household names, including:
Agnes DeMille; Kirsten Flagstad; George Gershwin; Alma Gluck; Jascha Heifetz; Sergei Koussevitski; Lotte Lehmann; Giovanni Martinelli; John McCormack; Lauritz Melchior; Grace Moore; Lily Pons; Ezio Pinza; Sergei Prokofiev; Andres
Segovia; Risë Stevens; Gladys Swarthout; Lawrence Tibbett, and Ephrem Zimbalist.

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Resources from The Entertainment Community Fund

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