Credit Unions

Membership benefits in Actors Equity Association include health insurance, pension benefits, and casting news. Members also have access to services through the Actors Federal Credit Union and the Actors Fund.

Actors Federal Credit Union is a cooperatively run, non-profit banking organization chartered in 1962 for the benefit of the members of Actors' Equity Association. Today, any paid-up member of Equity, SAG, AFTRA, or a member in good standing of any of AEA's component organizations is eligible to apply for membership. A full line of banking services is available for members, including online banking, loans, and investment planning.

Benefits include APA Business Manual for business information available for the advertising photographer, meetings, seminars and workshops, mentoring, APAnet, an online newsgroup for advertising photographers, reps, consultants, assistants, and students, APAdigital, the newest of APA's two online newsgroups, APA Estimating software, InFocus Magazine, rights protection, business insurance, credit union, and health insurance.

Financial services for members of the entertainment community and household/family members in the Los Angeles area. Branches in Los Angeles, Hollywood, and Studio City.

With over 250 local unions throughout the United States and Canada, the union is the largest in the world representing the interests of the professional musician.

AFTRA negotiates and enforces collective bargaining agreements for actors and other professional performers, and broadcasters in television, radio, sound recordings, non-broadcast/industrial programming and new technologies such as interactive programming and CD ROMs. Members have access to health and retirement benefits, credit union, discounts on services, and career development seminars and opportunities.

Membership in AGMA includes such benefits as accident insurance, health benefits, legal services, mortgages, pension, loans and the AGMA Emergency Relief Fund administered by the Actors Fund. AGMA represents opera and concert singers, production personnel and dancers at principal opera, and concert and dance companies.

In addition to licensing and royalty services, ASCAP member services include information and support, a bimonthly magazine, access to workshops, showcases, competitions and awards, and ASCAP Clearance Express online. The ASCAP member card provides a package of benefits, services, and discounts including insurance (instrument, studio and tour liability, accident, long term care, life, medical and dental); equipment, travel, car rental, and financial (credit card, credit union, and member investment program).

ACFCU is a national credit union which specializes in serving individual artists and non-profit arts organizations of all arts discpilines. It offers savings accounts, certificates of deposit, IRAs, lines of credit and a variety of loans.

ATPAM members are press agents, publicity and marketing specialists company managers and house and facilities managers who are devoted to the health, vitality and success of staged entertainment of all types. ATPAM is part of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, Its Territories and Canada, AFL-CIO, CLC. As Local 18032 of the IATSE, ATPAM enjoys membership in the largest Union governing the entertainment business and with that, finds itself as part of vital, growing industry that encompasses stage, screen and television.