Your Support in Action

 

Your gifts don't just enable WITF to provide quality educational and cultural programming throughout Central Pennsylvania. Through your support, you have also helped feed those in need in our region and cared for the environment by planting trees.

 

Current Partnerships

 

WITF partnered with Wegmans to match contributions made on November 12, 2009.  Wegmans matched each dollar contributed to WITF with one pound of food, donated to the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank. Your generosity yielded 10 tons of food donated by Wegmans and distributed throughout the region.  Thank you!  

 

Throughout 2009, WITF partnered with the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (PA-DCNR) to care for our environment and plant trees in Central Pennsylvania.  Click here to see pictures and stories from the creation of the WITF Woodlands in Lancaster, Carlisle and Harrisburg.  Don't miss your opportunity to support WITF and honor someone special during our "Roses" drive by planting a tree.

 

 

Your annual contribution also makes it possible for WITF to improve the quality of life in your community through a wide variety of services:

 

Ready to Learn prepares pre-schoolers for lifelong learning. Last year, WITF trained more than 5,000 Central PA parents and caregivers to use PBS programming as an effective teaching tool. For more information go to WITF Education Services.

 

Family literacy events bring the joy of reading to more than 10,000 children and parents each year. This outreach involves partnerships with libraries, schools, newspapers, and other businesses and community organizations.

 

Continuing education for adult learners, including teleconferencing and closed circuit training channels, allowing employees to pursue distance learning opportunities without leaving the work place.

 

Live and recorded concerts from The Harrisburg Symphony to Market Square Concerts, from Music at Gretna, to the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra we bring the region's finest to you.

 

Coverage of a rich array of cultural eventsincluding a comprehensive event calendar on WITF-FM and in Central PA magazine, plus live broadcasts from Harrisburg's Artsfest, Yorkfest, and more.

 

Career training opportunities, tours, internships, and career shadowing days for elementary, secondary, and college students, plus training for broadcasters from developing countries through the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute. For more information go to WITF Internship Opportunities.

 

Services that enhance the lives of people with physical challenges.WITF-FM provides the "sub-carrier" signal and technical support for the Radio Reading Service operated by Tri-County Association for the Blind, and WITF-TV offers the free Descriptive Video Service, making TV accessible to visually impaired people via narrated descriptions of key visual elements.

 

Click here to view WITF's Annual Report.