FIELD TRIP FUNDING IDEAS
Transportation Subsidy Available
The Honey and Bill Jaffe Endowment for Audience Development at the Center for the Performing Arts is pleased to offer a limited busing subsidy to assist your school with transportation costs for School-Time Matinees. Ask for details when you make your reservations with Shannon Arney at 814-863-2688 or via e-mail.
Please download, print, and return the Busing Subsidy Request Form—to the address provided on the form—two weeks prior to the date of the performance.
Target Field Trip Grants
Target offers field trip grants. This year’s deadline has passed but for next year’s planning, applications are to be submitted between August 1 and October 3 for field trips between January 1 and the end of the academic year (May/June). Visit Target for more information.
Making the Case to Your Funders
The School-Time Matinee series at the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State enhances in-class learning.
School-Time Matinees:
- Allow educators to engage students with a living laboratory—the performing arts.
- Incorporate Pennsylvania State Education Standards to help educators further in-class educational goals
- Provide experiential learners with ways to engage with core curriculum areas
- Introduce youth to the performing arts at a fraction of the cost of public performances
- Are educational and fun for you and your students
Three excellent websites provide more resources (http://www.artsusa.org, http://www.nationalguild.org/advocacy/arts_ed.htm, and http://artsactionfund.org/news/entry/documenting-the-importance-of-arts-education) to help you explain to funders, parent-teacher organizations, and your principal the reasons you want to take your students to experience a School-Time Matinee at the Center for the Performing Arts.