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heart of the city at 54th Street and 8th Avenue. The new screening room will permanently house its New York Conversations and The Business programs. For three decades, the SAG Foundation has worked tirelessly to lend support to SAG-AFTRA members, their families and the communities around us. The Foundation is celebrating its 30th anniversary in November 2015 with a gala and fundraiser that spotlights SAG-AFTRA members who have set the bar high for giving back to their creative community. The Foundation recently gave its inaugural Actors Inspiration Award to actor Sofía Vergara for her commitment to children's literacy and her willingness to become the first bilingual reader for the Foundation's Storyline Online program (see page 31). An additional Actors Inspiration Award will be presented at the gala to a performer who has given back significantly to his or her fellow members through the SAG Foundation. Moreover, the new 2001 2002 2004 2010 2008 The SAG Foundation creates the Conversations and Career Retrospectives programs featuring contemporary actors, casts and acting legends. Storyline Online launches, streaming videos featuring well-known actors reading children's books alongside animated illustrations. The SAG Foundation creates the Casting Access Project. CAP is named Best Way to Meet Casting Directors by Backstage magazine. The SAG Foundation opens the Don LaFontaine Voiceover Lab in the Los Angeles Actors Center on June 25, 2010. The SAG Foundation opens the Los Angeles Actors Center. It is the first professional facility and resource of its kind to support the careers of working actors. SINCE 1985 … 5,000 free workshops, panels and screenings to over 300,000 SAG-AFTRA members nationwide SINCE 1985 … 9,000 free studio hours in its state- of-the-art voiceover labs in Los Angeles and New York SINCE 1985 … 500 hours worth of video content in the SAG Foundation's public Actors Archive viewed by 2.3 million at sagfoundation.org/videogallery 28 SAG-AFTRA | Summer 2015 | SAGAFTRA.org