Benefactors:

The Historic Hotel Bethlehem

PENNSYLVANIA Department of Community and Economic Development



PPL Corporation

The Rider-Pool Foundation

Patrons:

Ann G. Clements
The Century Fund
C & S Wholesale Grocers
EXXON Mobil Foundation
The Hobson Family Foundation
The Charles H. Hoch Foundation
The Holt Family Foundation
Kathryn B. Klein
Keystone Nazareth Charitable Foundation
The Wal-Mart Foundation

Volunteer Support

Volunteers are an indispensable resource to Pennsylvania Youth Theatre. Parents and community members support the company's productions as stage managers and assistants, costume, set, and prop builders, as backstage crew and as front-of-house ushers. Throughout the year volunteers help with mailings, publicity, fundraising and hospitality. Frequently, former students return to serve as teachers' assistants.
View current volunteer opportunities

PYT's productions are the result of hundreds of hours of effort on the part of cast, crew and volunteers. By joining us in this effort, you can help deliver plays to thousands, many of them school children. You can set an example to everyone in the cast, especially our PYT students, by showing them the value of group effort and the positive reward of contributing time. Your hours of help and support are greatly appreciated and are essential to our goal of serving our community with the best possible literature-based theatre for children while offering our talented students the opportunity to perform. Thank you.


Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program

In 2001 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, established the Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program (EITC) to encourage businesses to make contributions to educational improvement organizations approved by the State. (Businesses receive tax credits from the state for their contributions.)

Support for Pennsylvania Youth Theatre’s MainStage literature-based children’s plays qualifies for this tax credit program. These productions and their accompanying study guides enrich the language arts curriculum of the 13,000 school children who see these shows annually.
Participating businesses receive a percentage of tax credits for all contributions they make in this program. (They receive a 90% credit for a two-year contribution commitment and a 75% credit for contributions made for a one-year period.) In addition to this significant tax benefit, businesses have the opportunity to support educational organizations in their communities who focus on making positive contributions in this field.

For more details about this program please call 610-332-1404 or visit Pennsylvania's website:

http://www.newpa.com/programDetail.aspx?id=62