2016 Lackawanna County Arts & Culture Grant recipients announced at Scranton Cultural Center
From a press release:
Lackawanna County Commissioners Patrick M. O’Malley, Jerry Notarianni, and Laureen A. Cummings have announced the arts and culture organizations and individuals who have received grant support for their various community projects, events, and activities this year.
Financial assistance was awarded in two forms: program stream grants and community project grants.
The program stream grants are larger awards to arts and cultural nonprofits who receive a yearly allocation from the Lackawanna County Arts & Culture Department. Their operations are reviewed every other year to gauge need, their projects, and general growth.
Community project grants are one-time disbursements for a specific activity administered by an organization or individual. Applicants may reapply every October for this form of funding.
The applications for both revenue streams are reviewed and scored by a panel to help determine if the programs, projects, or activities should be funded. Both grant programs are modeled after the process that the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts utilizes.
The financial resources for the grants come from the Arts, Education, and Culture tax, which is assessed annually at a rate of approximately 1.0 mill.
At the awards ceremony tonight at the Scranton Cultural Center, the county’s Arts & Culture Department and the Pocono Arts Council will also be recognizing the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts’ “Partners in the Arts” Project Stream Award recipients from the region.
The amount awarded for 32 program grants this year was $211,700. The total for 23 project grants was $50,113.
Local anchor institutions – the Scranton Public Library, the Everhart Museum, and the Scranton Cultural Center – received their annual education/arts and culture allocation of $240,000 each.
The 2016 program stream grant recipients are:
Abington Business & Professional Association (Ice Festival) – $4,000
Actors Circle – $7,000
Anthracite Heritage Museum & Iron Furnaces – $7,000
Arcadia Chorale – $3,000
Artists for Art Gallery – $6,000
Ballet Theatre of Scranton – $7,000
Boys and Girls Club of NEPA – $5,000
Broadway Theatre League – $15,000
Catholic Choral Society – $3,000
Choral Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania – $3,500
City of Carbondale – Pioneer Heritage Festival – $4,000
Classical Guitar Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania – $1,200
Electric City Television – $25,000
First Friday Scranton – $5,000
La Festa Italiana – $7,000
Lackawanna All County High School Band – $1,000
Lackawanna Historical Society – $20,000
Lackawanna River Corridor Association River Fest – $2,500
Lackawanna Heritage Valley-Heritage Explorer & Santa Train – $1,000
Lyric Consort – $3,000
Mostly Opera – $1,500
N.E.I.U. #19 – Poetry Out Loud Program – $1,000
North Pocono Cultural Society – $2,500
Scranton Civic Ballet – $7,000
Scranton Jazz Festival – $6,000
Scranton Music Association – $3,000
Scranton Public Theatre – $3,500
Scranton Shakespeare Festival – $6,000
St. Patrick’s Day Parade Association – $6,000
St. Ubaldo Festival – $6,000
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic – $16,000
United Neighborhood Centers of NEPA (Project Hope & Shutter Bug Photography Program) – $23,000
The individuals and organizations receiving 2016 community project grants are:
Margo Azzarelli – $1,500
Jeffrey Boam – $2,550
Lisa A. Cassella – $2,550
Covenant Public Concerts – $2,550
Lucia Daily – $2,550
Shirley Eagen – $1,500
Tim Farrell – $2,550
First Presbyterian Church – $2,125
Friends of the Arc Auxiliary – $3,000
Ghostlight Theatre Productions – $3,000
K.K. Gordon – $1,071
Rosemary Hay – $2,120
Camp Create – $2,100
Pop Up Studio – $1,500
Ringgold Pops of Scranton – $1,800
Scranton Fringe Festival – $2,700
Ihor Shablovsky – $2,550
Doug Smith – $2,100
Voluntary Action Center of NEPA – $1,785
Wally Gordon Community Singers – $1,012
Waverly Community House – $3,000
Michelle Wheeler – $1,500
West Scranton Hyde Park Neighborhood Watch – $3,000
Read the list of last year’s recipients here.
