Writers Guild Foundation

The Writers Guild Foundation was established in 1966 by a group of Writers Guild members. Beginning in 1993, when it hired its first paid staff members, the Foundation worked to revise its charter and update its by-laws. The Foundation established its first library, the James R. Webb Memorial Library, on WGA premises in 1984. This first library was staffed on a part-time basis by the WGA and was open three days per week. In early 1996, when the WGA moved into its present headquarters, the Foundation conducted a successful small capital funding campaign to furnish and equip a new library on the building's ground floor, which included the first administrative office for the Foundation on Guild premises. In 2003 the Guild granted the Foundation permission to plan a new and considerably expanded library and executive offices provided that all construction and furnishings costs would be the Foundation's responsibility. Following a successful $2 million campaign, the Writers Guild Foundation Shavelson-Webb Library officially opened on June 18, 2005.