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81 S AG - A F T R A S PEC I A L IS S U E 2 0 24 S A G A F T R A .O R G When you see Schindler's List or The Grapes of Wrath … Art can teach, I think. People see the truth about things." When the SAG-AFTRA National Honors and Tributes Committee chooses an honoree, philanthropic work is also taken into consideration, and Streisand excels there as well. She established The Streisand Foundation in 1986, which provides funding for a number of impactful organizations, including the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the Center for American Progress, Mother Jones, ProPublica, Friends of the Earth and ACLU Southern California, among others. In 2021, Streisand endowed the Barbra Streisand Center at UCLA to examine the critical issues related to art, truth, gender equity and climate change. Aer receiving an invitation from Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in September 2022, Streisand became an ambassador for the UNITED24 platform and raised funds for medical care in the ongoing effort to support Ukraine in the Russia- Ukraine war. When named to Fortune magazine's list of Most Powerful Women in 2016, Streisand emphasized her work as the co-founder of the Women's Heart Alliance and her advocacy around women's cardiovascular health issues, leading her to establish the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai Hospital. "I found out heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women," she told the magazine. "Not just in the United States, Kris Kristofferson and Streisand in a A Star Is Born, 1976. She won her second Academy Award for composing the music for the love theme Evergreen. WARNER BROS. PIC TURES

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