Entertainment Community Fund

Los Angeles is home to the highest concentration of entertainment workers in the country. Many in this diverse and vulnerable population, unable to comfortably rely on a steady paycheck due to the nature of their work, were adversely impacted by the wildfires. To support the resilience of those who help make L.A. the entertainment capital of the world, the Entertainment Community Fund will provide arts professionals with financial assistance, housing support, career guidance and mental health resources on their path to wildfire recovery.

The Entertainment Community Fund will open the Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Theater in 2025. Part of the largest affordable housing project for artists in California, this 71-seat theater offers an affordable presentation space to artists in Hollywood. The theater will provide subsidized rentals twice weekly to nonprofits serving low-income youth in theater, music and dance. We will partner with arts organizations to provide both creative training and career pathways that support a diverse pipeline of new talent into LA’s creative economy.

The Entertainment Community Fund is proud to bring forth a transformational initiative to the Los Angeles area through the Hollywood Arts Collective, a combined affordable housing and arts complex - the first of its kind in the community. This complex will provide space for performing arts and entertainment professionals to live, work and create in the heart of Hollywood; open new opportunities in creative careers for underserved youth in the neighborhood; and host the new Western Region Headquarters for the Entertainment Community Fund.