Exclusive: Putting their money together with their good intentions, Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw are hoping to make this summer one to remember for Los Angeles school kids hit hard by the coronavirus.
Through their Hearthland Foundation, the Oscar winning director and the Love Letter actress have donated $1 million to kick off the L.A. Education Recovery Fund. With additional support from the Wasserman Foundation, Ballmer Group, the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and others, the multi-year initiative aims to contribute $7 million to 55 non-profits offering enrichment programs, play and academic activities, consoling and more for up to 50,000 public school children from low-income backgrounds.
“Our kids in L.A. public schools are among those who have borne the brunt of a pandemic that laid bare and deepened the inequities that exist in our city and in our country,” Capshaw and Spielberg said today.
“The L.A. Education Recovery Fund is an...
Through their Hearthland Foundation, the Oscar winning director and the Love Letter actress have donated $1 million to kick off the L.A. Education Recovery Fund. With additional support from the Wasserman Foundation, Ballmer Group, the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and others, the multi-year initiative aims to contribute $7 million to 55 non-profits offering enrichment programs, play and academic activities, consoling and more for up to 50,000 public school children from low-income backgrounds.
“Our kids in L.A. public schools are among those who have borne the brunt of a pandemic that laid bare and deepened the inequities that exist in our city and in our country,” Capshaw and Spielberg said today.
“The L.A. Education Recovery Fund is an...
- 6/25/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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