Focus on Renewal (McKees Rocks) Receives $500,000...
Focus on Renewal (McKees Rocks) Receives $500,000 from the Richard King Mellon Foundation
On August 15, 2008, Focus On Renewal announced that a new $500,000 gift from The Richard King Mellon Foundation has brought overall fundraising efforts for the Father Ryan Arts Center Capital Campaign to $3.4 million. The campaign launched publicly in 2004 to renovate a former furniture store into a $4.2 million state-of-the-art, multi-level arts center providing unmatched resources in all facets of artistic education, enrichment, and entertainment is nearly complete. Once completed, the new facilities will contain performance space and seating, an outside courtyard, on-site gallery, café, office space for administrative staff, lobby space, commercial kitchen, recording studio, dance studios, music rooms, computer graphics lab, pottery studios, visual and performing arts rooms, and a private meeting room for sponsors, entertainment, and rentals. Focus on Renewal is a non-profit human service agency that has served the McKees Rocks community for nearly 40 years and is nationally recognized as a model of comprehensive services to low-income people of all ages. For more information please call 412.771.6460 or click here.
