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James E. Rohr
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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Paul Clark
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National City, Northern Ohio

Eva Blum
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Chair, PNC Foundation

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PNC Grow Up Great And Cleveland Arts Partners Collaborate To Help Underserved Preschoolers

The PNC Foundation is pleased to announce Our Kids and the Arts – A Great Early Start, a $2 million investment in four Cleveland arts and cultural institutions to establish new programs and help underserved preschool children succeed in school and life. The grants will be shared among the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Orchestra, PlayhouseSquare and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

Through Our Kids and the Arts – A Great Early Start, PNC will support preschool teachers in making the arts — music, theatre, visual arts, and dance — come alive in the classroom. The goal is to prepare children for kindergarten and beyond as fully engaged, active learners.

PNC and the PNC Foundation believe that the arts have great value for children, providing a source of beauty, wonder, and creativity, as well as tools to promote learning and development. Through Grow Up Great, a 10-year, $100 million investment in early childhood education, PNC has committed to improving the school of readiness of millions of children from birth to age five, with a special focus on children from low- and moderate-income families.