Hello! I hope you are healthy and safe during this very difficult time.
PAA's school programs and workshops with program partners were cancelled in mid-March due to COVID-19. Since then, I've been working closely with our Board of Directors to navigate changes to the organization. We recently made the difficult decision to temporarily furlough many of our employees while we waited for the approval of the Small Business Administration's Payroll Protection Program (forgivable) loan. Our loan was just approved, and we look forward to receiving our funding and getting our staff back to work quickly.
During this time, and in the upcoming weeks, PAA is working with our program partners as they think about what they will need from us in the fall. We're developing curriculum to expand some of our new programs, finishing our new training manual for artists, and exploring new funding opportunities.
Your participation is crucial to our success. There are a few things you can do to help our organization:
- Stay in contact with us. Follow us on social media via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. See links below. Please help share our work!
- Contact your Congressperson to let them know the arts and arts education are important to you. We hope they will remember nonprofits like PAA as they make decisions to help businesses.
- Please make a donation, if you are able to do so. This year we are especially dependent on our donors, as we will not be earning the program revenue we had projected. As always, we vow to be good stewards of your investment and use the funds to bring learning to life through art.
We look forward to returning to schools and community organizations as soon as we can and we are exploring new ideas for how we can engage local youth in the arts.
Thank you for your support!
Best wishes,
Rick Grahovac
Executive Director
Progressive Arts Alliance
