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<p>SCRANTON &#8212; Organizations interested in a project that would conserve, preserve and/or educate the public about Northeastern Pennsylvania&#8217;s historic, cultural, economic and/or natural resources may qualify for a grant from the Lackawanna Heritage Valley.</p><p>LHV provides financial assistance to nonprofit and civic organizations, heritage partners, educational institutions and municipalities located or operated within the Lackawanna Heritage Valley, or whose projects will benefit LHV&#8217;s service area in Lackawanna County and portions of Susquehanna, Wayne and Luzerne counties.</p><p>The program is now limited to small grants, since available funding to LHV for these programs has been drastically reduced.</p><p>Over the years, LHV has provided more than $3.3 million in grant funding to organizations to support projects and programs in the areas of place-based education, interpretive programming, historic preservation, cultural conservation, community trails, and community and economic development, according to a news release.</p><p>This funding is an investment in Northeastern Pennsylvania that stimulates the region&#8217;s economic development, enhances tourism initiatives, strengthens the capacity of community organizations, and increases the quality of life for area residents.</p><p>Eligible applicants include:</p><p>&#8226; Nonprofit organizations with tax-exempt status proposing projects that preserve or promote cultural, historic, community, or natural resources, or ethnic traditions or folkways;</p><p>&#8226; Municipal and county governmental agencies; and</p><p>&#8226; Educational Institutions, including public schools and colleges and universities.</p><p>Through this program, LHV has supported a wide variety of projects in the region, such as:</p><p>&#8226; Exhibits, interpretive displays or panels, trail signage, video or audio displays, on-site interactive media, and digital products;</p><p>&#8226; Public programming, activities, events, and outreach activities;</p><p>&#8226; Program materials including training materials for docents, publications, including brochures or guidebooks, interpretive driving or walking trails or tours, and/or annotated itineraries;</p><p>&#8226; Preservation and adaptive reuse of historic structures, i.e. &#8220;bricks-and-mortar&#8221; work;</p><p>&#8226; Cultural conservation activities including oral history projects, conservation of traditional folkways, and artifact identification and preservation; and</p><p>&#8226; Feasibility or planning studies, management action plans, and special purpose studies.</p><p>Deadline to apply is noon on Sept. 1. For guidelines and grant applications, visit <a href="http://www.lhva.org/grants" target="_blank">www.lhva.org/grants</a> or call 570-963-6730.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Steve Mocarsky</p><p>smocarsky@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Steve Mocarsky at 570-991-6386 or on Twitter @TLSteveMocarsky.</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Lackawanna Heritage Valley announces Fall Grant Series availability