ProjectsHelen Deutsch Writing Workshops
In April 2008, the Writer’s Guild of America, East Foundation began a series of Writing Workshops for veterans and active duty military.
Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting
The Writers Guild of America, East Foundation’s Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting was created in 2008 with a grant from the Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation.
The Literacy Committee
The Literacy Committee is currently developing new programs, The Actors and Writers Book Club and Pencils Pals, both of which involve WGA and SAG members volunteering their time in an effort to inspire a love of reading and writing in elementary and secondary school students.
The WGAEF/Scenarios USA Mentor Group
The WGAE Foundation has created the Mentor Group in partnership with Scenarios USA, a non-profit organization that uses writing and filmmaking to foster youth leadership, advocacy and self-expression. The mission of the Mentor Group is to identify talented young writers from under-served communities in order to give them an opportunity and encouragement to become professional screenwriters.
Global Initiative
An outreach program, which would create an interaction between American-based writers and their colleagues throughout the world; exchanging ideas, experiences, working methods and organizational skills.
Television History Education Project
The Foundation is collaborating with the Rowan University Foundation and the King Family Foundation in the development of a series of educational programs which examine firsthand thoughts about seminal writers of American television and their bodies of work. The programs are intended for educational use, either in the classroom or for individual research and study.
The Baltimore Sun Fellowships
WGAE Foundation, along with the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, is offering multiple fellowships created to benefit Baltimore Sun employees who lost their jobs in recent cutbacks at the newspaper. The fellowship recipients are participating in a website project that collectively tells the story of the “Days of the Baltimore Sun.” The fellows will be joined by WGAE Foundation mentors at two day-long sessions in Baltimore.
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