Help Ann with monthly bills

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I'm Ann Thomas, and I've worked for 8 years in the film and TV industry in the Los Angeles area. Mostly what I've focused on is talent management, teaching performers (actors, voice actors, singers, musicians) how to prepare their materials to enable them to find work. Then, we find them agents if possible, and also match them with projects that they fit, where the folks in the business can't find people from our tiny underrepresented group. I'm trying to help people get work, to help them be more productive members of society. Rather than charge them up front, we contract with them for a small percentage of their earnings once they get work. First the pandemic brought the industry to it's knees. Then the strikes blocked almost everyone we work with from getting average paying jobs. During this time, with the help of a handful of awesome mentors, I've also worked on creating film and TV projects that would employ more than just one performer. These can't be shopped to the major studios until the strikes are both over. So far one, the writer's strike, has settled. We're still held up on the actor's strike. Hopefully that settles soon. The strikes have put me in the poor house. I've depleted all my resources, and need help paying the basic bills: power, gas, internet, rent, food, fuel - the essentials. Please donate to help keep me going with helping find and provide work for other people!