Writer and WGA strike captain Joelle Garfinkel set up Green Envelope Grocery Aid — named after the color of the envelope containing residuals — to find a way to help her counterparts who are ...

Outside CBS Radford, WGA strike captain Joelle Garfinkel, a writer who has worked in Hollywood for more than 16 years, keeps a watchful eye over the picketers around her.

The idea stemmed from a group chat that has close to 500 showrunners on WhatsApp in which someone flagged that Joelle Garfinkel’s Green Envelope Grocery Aid was backlogged and low on funds to ...

Within weeks, the operation grew and Garfinkel started the mutual aid fund Green Envelope Grocery Aid. Since then, the grassroots fund has sent out nearly 1,750 separate $100 grants.

Green Envelope Grocery Aid, a mutual aid fund run by WGA member Joelle Garfinkel, provides $100 in grocery assistance for union and non-union Hollywood workers affected by the strike.

Joelle Garfinkel, a strike captain based at the CBS Radford lot in Studio City, was an inspiration to many as a single mother, strike captain and creator of the Green Envelope fund that helped WGA ...

WGA Captain Joelle Garfinkel recently took her residual check to start a fund called Green Envelope Grocery Aid to provide food support. She's been getting the word out and some of her colleagues ...

“Someone else’s acts of kindness spark other acts of kindness,” she said, name-checking writer Joelle Garfinkel’s Green Envelope Grocery Fund that has raised $100,000 thus far.

This is Day 144 of the WGA strike and Day 71 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. As contract talks between striking writers and their studio counterparts entered a third straight day, picketing in New York ...