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ARTS FUNDING FOR LACKAWANNA AND LUZERNE COUNTIES

Scranton Area Foundation/Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

The Scranton Area Foundation is one of the 17 regional service providers throughout the Commonwealth 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. 2008 is the eighth 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.