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, cared for the environment by planting trees and supported literacy by giving books to children and schools that need them.
Current Partnerships
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR)
Since 2008, you - our loyal listeners, viewers and donors - have joined us in partnering with DCNR to care for our environment by planting trees throughout central PA. Because of your generosity, we've planted witf Woodlands in Lancaster, Harrisburg and Carlisle! Now, you can be part of planting the 4th witf Woodland in York. Click here to find out more and to see stories from the creation of the witf Woodlands in Lancaster, Harrisburg and Carlisle!
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 events, including a comprehensive event calendar on witf 89.5 & 93.3 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 89.5 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.
