The Greater Hazleton
Area Civic Partnership was developed as a 501 c (3) organization to fulfill its
mission statement “ Make the Greater Hazleton Area the best place to live,
learn, work, worship and play”.
The guide to start achieving this goal was the
original Zogby International report that drove the partnership to specific
projects to improve our area. Most of the original projects have been completed
others are still in progress.
As the GHACP started to mature it was found that
the key to fulfilling the mission statement was to help other fledging
volunteer groups achieve their specific projects to improve the communities
they lived in.
One of the first major projects was the Appalachian Community
Learning Project that helped introduce the GHACP to all area non-profit groups
and local municipalities by offering free training from the Rennslerville
Learning Center. This project not only demonstrated how to engage government,
private organizations, businesses and ordinary citizens to work together to
obtain our vision but also offered $1,200 mini grants to help fund their
specific project. Other groups then started coming to the partnership to help
achieve their projects through the training, administrative support, grant
writing and fund raising experience that the partnership provided.
State
Representative Todd Eachus, D-116 who was one of the original Steering
Committee members and has referred many volunteer groups to the partnership
saying “the partnership was created because we needed an organization that
could do many things for many people”.
As can be seen by reviewing the details of the completed successful
projects listed below that the Civic Partnership has and continues to help
volunteers complete their projects to improve the communities we live in.
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