Our Summer Giving Campaign

Hello friends,

It is impossible to express yourself creatively when you are worried about keeping a roof over your head or thinking about where your next meal is coming from. With skyrocketing rents and the rising cost of groceries, NYC’s performers are struggling.

EAG has been working hard to help professional performing artists meet their most basic needs--housing and food. But the crisis is accelerating, and we need your help! Please consider making a gift so we can continue to keep people housed and fed, and get them back on stage where they belong.

If you are not able to contribute financially at this time, please consider becoming a volunteer, amplifying our message on social media, or sharing this with a friend who might be in a position to donate.
Yours sincerely,
Karen Lehman Foster
EAG Executive Director
We can accept donations online or by check made payable to EAG and mailed to 
​EAG, 1 E. 29th St. New York, NY 10016. Thank you! ​
Since 1923, EAG has provided financial assistance and support services to tens of thousands of professional performers. Over the past one hundred years, we have been sensitive and responsive to the changing needs of our clients and the changing times and have grown into a strong and reliable safety net for those we serve. EAG is known for our deep commitment to and understanding of NYC's performing arts community and as a resource where one can receive assistance without judgment. We meet our benchmark for success daily: no qualified professional performer who has asked us for help has ever been turned away.
​"Over the pandemic, the Episcopal Actors' Guild came to my aid (and helped countless other actors), providing food cards, rent payments, and other resources to help with our mental and physical being. I know if there is an actor-in-need--ever--they can go to EAG. Please support one of the only nonprofits that is familiar with the actual day-to-day struggles a freelance professional actor endures in NYC. Their mission to always be there for the little people is one that needs to be spread throughout the world. Love love love."--an actor helped with rent and food

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​EAG’s programs and services are made possible in part by the generous support of the following:
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