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From the Executive Director
If you don't ask, you don't get! The sole item in this newsletter concerns the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts grants program. With this program, individuals and organizations can apply for grants up to $3,000. The application process is easy, and all you really need to be successful is to have a project that you are enthusiastic about and that can be completed by the end of August next year (2010).
There are three information sessions - Wilkes-Barre, Scranton and Hazleton - you can attend to learn more about the program and how to apply. Details are below. Last year, the Cultural Council hosted abd actively promoted the info session in Wilkes-Barre, and the number of grant applications from Luzerne County doubled, exceeding, for the first time, the number of applications from Lackawanna County. Because of this, we were successful in getting the Scranton Area Foundation to hold a session in Hazleton, this year. Wouldn't it be great if we could pack the room?
If you know of someone who might be interested, but may not receive this newsletter, PLEASE forward it to them! It may make the difference! Just click on the "Forward email" link below.
Thank you!
Mike Burnside
Executive Director
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All artists, performers, non-profit arts groups - PAY ATTENTION TO THIS!
ARTS FUNDING FOR LACKAWANNA AND LUZERNE COUNTIES
Scranton Area Foundation/Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
The Scranton Area Foundation is one of the regional service providers that has been selected by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) to facilitate the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA) Program. The Scranton Area Foundation has been working in partnership with the state in designing and creating initiatives on a regional level to make significant impact on the arts and cultural opportunities in Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties. 2009 is the ninth year of the project, which is funded in part by a grant from the Scranton Area Foundation.
Facilitated by the Scranton Area Foundation, the goals of the PPA are:
·Expanding constituent access to the arts by (a) making arts programs available to communities that may have been underserved in the past by state arts funding, and (b) supporting a wide variety of arts activities in the community, developed in a variety of local settings.
·Encouraging and supporting local decision-making in re-granting of state art dollars.
·Increasing awareness of and advocacy for government support and funding of the arts at the local and state levels.
·Enabling the PCA to provide increased assistance to its broad constituency throughout the state.
Through this collaborative effort organizations or individual artists within Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties are eligible to apply for grants up to $3,000. A total of $626,648 has been distributed through Lackawanna and Luzerne counties since the partnership began in 2001.
Grants are available for projects occurring from September 1, 2009 - August 31, 2010.
INFORMATIONAL MEETINGS WILL BE HELD ON:
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2009 AT 6:00 P.M.
Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry
2 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre, PA
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2009 AT 6:00 P.M.
The Trolley Museum
300 Cliff Street
Scranton, PA
TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2009 AT 6:00 PM
Penn State Hazleton Campus
Graham 115 (Note: Click HERE for a map of the PSU Hazleton campus. The Graham building is the green building close to the center of the map.)
All applicants must apply using the egrant for PPA Project Stream available in mid-May on the PCA website:
http://www.pacouncilonthearts.org
For further information on the 2009-2010 grant cycle please contact: Cathy Fitzpatrick, PPA Coordinator at the Scranton Area Foundation office (347-6203)
Application deadline: June 30, 2009
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The Cultural Council