Plitt Southern Theater Employee Fund Gifts Over $16,000 to the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation History of the fund Since the early 1940s, the Plitt Southern Theaters Employee Fund has generously given over $25 million to theater families for medical expenses and improvements to quality of life. The fund helped employees of Interstate Theatres, […]
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2015 Theatrical Fundraising Spokesperson
Zoe Saldana Named 2015 Theatrical Fundraising Spokesperson for Brave Beginnings. Helping premature babies survive and thrive.
Continue readingVirginia Journalist Earns Will Rogers Humanitarian Award
This summer, all three national Will Rogers organizations — The Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation, Will Rogers Memorial Museum, the Will Rogers Ranch Foundation — joined together to help sponsor the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ Will Rogers Humanitarian Award. History was made in Washington, D.C., on June 27, 2014 when the east met […]
Continue reading75th Anniversary Historical Flashback
The 1966 Alfred Hitchcock Summer Theatrical PSA was shown before the ShowEast premiere of “Hitchcock”starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren. Almost 50 years later, the summer theatrical campaign remains the main source of fundraising for the Will Rogers Institute. We couldn’t do it without the support of the exhibition and distribution community. We hope you […]
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