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PBPAC has embarked on a major capital campaign to build a $14 million state-of-the-art performance-art training center and professional-quality theater on Point Breeze Avenue in South Philadelphia to bring the “transformative power” of the arts to a larger audience.
 Future Home of Point Breeze The campaign, which targets corporate donations as well as grass-roots giving, will raise matching dollars toward a $6 million state capital grant plus $2 million for an endowment to help support operations of the new facility. The Center has already raised $1 million toward that goal, through grant monies from the City of Philadelphia that funded pre-development and design phases. Contributors have the opportunity to support the capital campaign at a wide variety of levels, from securing naming rights to the performing arts center to the "Buy a Brick" program. Other naming rights are available for the 290-seat theater, the lobby/art gallery, dance and ceramic studios, art and music classrooms, administrative suite, the student lounge, even the distinctive, elegant masks, known as barakoa in Swahili, that the Center displays in honor of youth who graduate from its program. Once PBPAC has raised half of the matching funds, or $3 million, it can begin drawing down the state capital dollars to launch construction of the project. The goal is to have all matching funds raised by the end of 2006, with groundbreaking to occur the same year. With its capital campaign, Point Breeze Performing Arts Center is looking to the business community, civic leaders, government officials and ordinary citizens to invest in the promise embodied in its philosophy of Arts for Social Change. Capital Campaign Goals Funds Required Less Commonwealth of PA - Matching Grant -$6,000,000 CAPITAL CAMPAIGN GOAL $ 8,000,000 Progress Towards Goal BALANCE TO BE RAISED $ 6,500,000
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