DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Fiscal Year 2009-2010 Grant Programs for Destination Marketing Organizations [39 Pa.B. 6555]
[Saturday, November 14, 2009]The Department of Community and Economic Development announces the availability of guidelines for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-2010 Grant Programs for Destination Marketing Organizations. This program administered by the Pennsylvania Tourism Office provides grants to support tourism promotion and marketing for eligible Tourism Promotion Agencies and other Tourism Destination Marketing Organizations. These supported activities will encourage the prosperous development of Pennsylvania business, industry and commerce, to expand markets and promote and develop new markets for Pennsylvania tourism, encouraging the location and development of new business, industry and commerce within the Commonwealth, to aid in restoring employment in communities affected by unemployment, and to assist persons, firms, associations, political subdivisions, corporations, cooperative associations and other organizations to assist various public safety, recreation, senior citizens or other community service organizations.
Assistance from the Pennsylvania Tourism Office is in the form of grants from the Commonwealth to eligible applicants for projects which conform to the eligibility criteria detailed in the program guidelines.
Applications and requests for guidelines should be directed to the Department of Community and Economic Development, Tourism Office, Commonwealth Keystone Building, 400 North Street, Fourth Floor, Harrisburg, PA 17120-0225, (800) 237-4363, jacollier@state.pa.us.
GEORGE CORNELIUS,
Secretary[Pa.B. Doc. No. 09-2101. Filed for public inspection November 13, 2009, 9:00 a.m.]
