Trust submits grant applications

The organization has moved in a number of directions after the loss of the funding because of grant matching problems. There has been an application to the Pennsylvania History and Museum Commission for $25,000 packaged with a $25,000 grant application from the Washington County Tourist Bureau to fix the roof on the theater.  The Trust submitted an application for $15,000, through the Borough of Charleroi, to sponsor more events in the downtown to build regular foot traffic on Friday Night. The Trust has also identified funding to enable them to perform the asbestos abatement activities in the theater.

The organization has hired a consultant to perform an internal audit of the dollars spent over the last few years.  The organization, although active, has not raised a lot of money and was not subject to filing annual audits.  Once the internal audit is complete, the information will be given to a CPA to perform a multi-year audit through December 2012.