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PCA Grant Programs

Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts

Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA) is a partnership between the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA), a state agency, and local arts organizations. Through this partnership grant funds are distributed to arts organizations across the state. A total of 14 organizations administer PPA and serve all 67 counties in Pennsylvania. State government funding for the arts comes through an annual appropriation by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Until September 2020 PRAA was the partner organization in southwestern Pennsylvania, serving the counties of Armstrong, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Indiana, Somerset and Westmoreland.  Currently  this region including Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fayette, Somerset and Westmoreland Counties is managed by  the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies. The United Way of Clarion County serves Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Indiana and Jefferson Counties.

To see lists of previous grant recipients managed by the Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance click here.

About Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts

In 1996 the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) initiated the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), a new regionalized funding program in which funds are re-granted to support a wide variety of local and community arts activities. PRAA was invited to be one of the four original partners in this new initiative. PRAA worked with consultants and the PCA to design and implement the re-granting application, panel review, and management of grant funds. Currently there are fourteen local organizations across the state serving as PPA project managers and this program serves all 67 counties in Pennsylvania. Since its creation PPA has demonstrated enormous success in achieving the PCA’s mission and goals.

Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts Goals:

  • 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 arts 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

Are you a lover of the arts? Do you believe in supporting local arts organizations and activities in rural Pennsylvania? If so, we’d love to have you as a member.

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