{"id":1982326,"date":"2023-07-25T15:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dwayne-johnson-makes-historic-donation-to-sag-aftra-foundation-relief-fund\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T15:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T19:02:21","slug":"dwayne-johnson-makes-historic-donation-to-sag-aftra-foundation-relief-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dwayne-johnson-makes-historic-donation-to-sag-aftra-foundation-relief-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson donates to SAG-AFTRA Foundation Relief Fund, creating history."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdwayne-johnson-makes-historic-donation-to-sag-aftra-foundation-relief-fund%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1982326&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Actor Dwayne Johnson Makes Historic Donation to Support Hollywood Professionals<\/h2>\n<p>As the writers&#8217; and actors&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/strike\">strike<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/hollywood\">Hollywood<\/a> \u2064drags on, actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/dwayne-johnson\">Dwayne Johnson<\/a>, also known as &#8220;The Rock,&#8221; showed his support for fellow Hollywood professionals by making a &#8220;historic&#8221;\u2062 donation to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Relief Fund.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old &#8220;Black Adam&#8221; star made a significant payment to the non-profit organization, \u2064which is associated with the union but isn&#8217;t part of\u2062 it, per <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/news\/dwayne-johnson-donation-sag-aftra-foundation-strike-relief-fund-1235678671\/\">Variety<\/a>.\u200c The foundation is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dwayne-johnson-makes-historic-donation-to-sag-aftra-foundation-relief-fund\/\" title=\"Dwayne Johnson donates to SAG-AFTRA Foundation Relief Fund, creating history.\">offering financial\u200d relief<\/a> to \u2063many \u2062of the union&#8217;s 160,000 members during the strike. It has provided aid for union \u2062members in the past, including during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We rely on donations and grants to \u200dprovide services \u2014 we have been very fortunate that\u2064 we raised enough money to be able to\u200b cover all of our \u2062programs,&#8221;\u200c Foundation executive director Cyd Wilson told\u2064 the outlet.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;But when we hit a crisis like this and we&#8217;re going to spend millions and millions of dollars\u200b in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-justice-department-scraps-investigation-into-yales-discriminatory-admissions-process\/\" title=\"Biden Justice Department Scraps Investigation Into Yale\u2019s Discriminatory Admissions Process\">financial assistance<\/a>, this is when we need our high profile talent who can afford it, \u200bwho are in a situation to help others,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>SAG-AFTRA Foundation president Courtney B. Vance also had words of praise for Johnson.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It was a love fest. It&#8217;s like, &#8216;Man, you&#8217;re stepping up in a way that is allowing others to \u200cknow the dire necessity of it,'&#8221; she\u200b said of\u200c the \u200bactor&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-republicans-to-introduce-legislation-calling-for-colleges-to-disclose-foreign-influence\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Republicans To Introduce Legislation Calling For Colleges To Disclose Foreign Influence\">large donation<\/a>. &#8220;This is him saying, &#8216;In such a time as this, I&#8217;m here and I&#8217;m not going anywhere, whatever \u2062you need me to do.&#8217; And that\u2062 sends a huge message to other folks to do the same thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The exact amount of Johnson&#8217;s donation is being kept private, but Variety noted that \u200dthe total donation was seven figures. &#8220;He stepped up in\u2063 a \u2063major, historic way to \u2064help us because he&#8217;s one of us. We support our own,&#8221; Vance added.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson told the outlet how grants typically deliver up to $1,500 per individual SAG-AFTRA member. This amount can \u200bgo as high as $6,000 for members in extreme financial situations.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1690368573946000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0SC9MF9lhNsKkAePnLU71p\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Vance said Johnson&#8217;s\u2064 contribution will hopefully become a catalyst for others \u200cto give more to the foundation. &#8220;It is a call to arms for all of us to know that we just have to step up however you can,&#8221; the organization&#8217;s president said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If your step up is $10, step up. Because that $10 is going to help somebody. If it&#8217;s $10,000, if it&#8217;s $10 million, step up, because we have to. Everyone knows what happens when you \u2062go on strike, when you stand for something \u2014 as \u2064the saying goes, if you\u200d don&#8217;t stand\u200b for something, you&#8217;ll fall for everything \u2014 you can&#8217;t stand unless you\u200c have support underneath you, on the side, up top and up front. So Dwayne is \u200cletting everyone know, &#8216;I&#8217;m here. What are you going to do?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Hollywood writers&#8217; and actors&#8217; strike continues, Dwayne Johnson, aka &#8220;The Rock,&#8221; stands in solidarity with his industry peers. The 51-year-old &#8220;Black Adam&#8221; actor made a remarkable contribution to the SAG-AFTRA Foundation Relief Fund, a non-profit linked to the union, offering support to fellow professionals during this historic time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1982327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}