Help is on the way to nonprofit arts organizations in the Keystone State.
The state is distributing $2.3 million worth of grants to 309 organizations. The money comes from the CARES Act and is meant to help pay for staff salaries, facility costs and fees for artists or contractural personnel. Organizations were chosen for the grants by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts.
The Appell Center for the Performing Arts in York and Susquehanna Folk Music Society were among the 36 organizations who were awarded grants of $50,000. Other notable organizations to secure grants of that amount include the African American Museum in Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. You can see the complete list of 36 organizations who were given $50,000 at arts.gov.
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