“[The federal government] didn’t know about us. We’re the biggest industry you’ve never heard of,” says one of the company leaders of new disaster response coalition L…
Live for Life officially launched on Monday as a coalition of 90 participating companies; by Thursday, that was up to 110.pandemic first struck the live events industry and put all concerts, sports games, and other mass gatherings out of action, three production companies got together to figure out ways they could spend the downtime helping healthcare workers. Their efforts have quickly evolved into a nationwide coalition of thousands of event workers supplying essential supplies.
, including helping build the temporary hospital at the Javits Center in New York. Live For Life has frontline workers building out infrastructure where possible, and when that’s not an option, it sends parts and engineering instructions to authorized workers like the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Event cancellations have taken away much of the companies’ business; several of Live For Life’s companies, including all three of the cofounders, have furloughed workers. Czarnowksi has around 800 full-time and 3,000 part-time workers, but its workforce is for now about 40% of its size.
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