Larry Minnix, CEO of LeadingAge, a not-for-profit aging services organization, reminded me in an email last week that May is Older Americans month. Before you say “Geez, they’ve got a month for everything now!” let me say “no disagreement here,” but that doesn’t mean that we can’t or shouldn’t create a special moment out...
Here we go again! A new year, new opportunities and new challenges. But before I go into that, I want to take a moment to thank all of you for contributing to a wonderful 2012 for MPTF. I’m not going to stick my neck out by including individual thank-you’s because I will surely miss...
The common thread running through every MPTF volunteer group I ever meet up with is “don’t thank us, we should thank you, because we get so much more out of volunteering than you can ever appreciate.” And so it was a week ago last Sunday when I saw down for a really enjoyable breakfast...
Last year I was so inspired by our annual Volunteers Guild brunch that I made it the centerpiece of one of my blogs. Some things never change! On Saturday, June 9th, we saluted over 100 Volunteer Guild members and their friends and families on our Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills, and once again I...
Renowned costume designer Nolan Miller passed away on Wednesday at the age of 79. Miller died of lung cancer at the Motion Picture & Television Fund hospital. He had been living at the MPTF retirement community for two years. With a career that spanned more than four decades and a list of actresses he has...
MPTF employees recently took on the national trend towards obesity and began to turn it around – at least in our own little world. Last year, we decided to put a lot more effort into our employees’ health and wellness and launched an MPTF Wellness program, led by program manager Tamara Walker. Since then,...
MPTF does a lot of good deeds for our industry members. That’s what we’re here for. Some of them can be very visible, like our recent support of industry member George Herthel and his wife Pam Boroski in fulfilling George’s final wish to have his house re-painted. In many other cases, because of their...
In the past few weeks, as we told you we intended to do, we have successfully moved eight of the entertainment industry’s most frail and vulnerable into our long-term care unit, bringing our total to 34. A few of these good folks had previously left MPTF’s LTC and have now returned, and the others...
Did I mention that I had breakfast with George Clooney last Thursday at the Beverly Hills Hotel? No? Yeah, me and about 20 media people from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the LA Times and other outlets, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Bob Pisano, and the rest of our Board of Directors, many staff members,...
For the past 2 Saturdays, we’ve been “producing” our hybrid version of Home Improvement and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on the Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills. Over 120 volunteers from all parts of the industry – from the MPTF board, guilds and unions, from studios, talent agencies, and business management firms, from staff, family...