Support BHCA: Help Keep Bellefonte’s Arts, Music & History Alive
BHCA works hard to make Bellefonte even more interesting. We sponsor contests with cash prizes, we hire musicians – classical and pop – who give free concerts indoors and outdoors, we pay poets and scholars to give lectures and readings, we publish The Bell, a high-quality quarterly journal. Most of our programs are free to the public. Although we do receive some grants and sponsorships, they don’t come close to meeting our expenses.
BHCA has no paid employees, but plenty of bills. Accordingly, we rely on philanthropic support. If you like the Jitterbug Contest, the Civil War Weekend, the Summer Sounds concerts in Talleyrand Park, the literary lectures at the Library, the Victorian Christmas Arts and Crafts Show, the Sunday Afternoon Chamber Music concerts, the Out Loud readings at the Print Factory, the Easter Parade and the other things we do around town, please help us pay for them. Think of BHCA as a three-dimensional version of public radio. We offer lots of free programming and hope someone will help us pay for it. For the last fifty years, this business model has worked. Truly, we depend on the generosity of our community.
We mail an annual solicitation letter in the fall and participate in Centre Gives each spring. Now, it is possible to donate through our website. If you like what we are doing, consider shouldering a portion of our burden. Once you click that yellow button, it’s easy to play your part in making a better Bellefonte.