Preserving the Stage for Generations
The PCPA Foundation secures the long-term future of PCPA through endowment and legacy gifts. Your support today ensures the curtain rises on future generations of performers and technicians.
What is the PCPA Foundation?
The PCPA Foundation exists to manage, grow, and steward the endowment that supports the artistry and education of PCPA and is uniquely focused on the long-term sustainability of PCPA.
Since its founding in 1995, the PCPA Foundation has been wholly dedicated to raising funds to support PCPA. It is a separate non-profit that manages and grows the endowment and provides annual distributions to PCPA. The Mission of the PCPA Foundation is to ensure the future of PCPA.
Why the PCPA Endowment Matters
When you make a planned gift to the PCPA Foundation, your generosity has an impact far beyond your lifetime. Your gift supports generations of students whose lives will be forever changed by their PCPA experience and who will forever change the lives of the audiences that experience their work.
PCPA - Pacific Conservatory supports a unique, fully accredited vocational training program at Allan Hancock College. It is the only training program including a resident Equity theatre company with fully integrated community college Career and Technical Education programs in the country.
PCPA has trained over 10,000 students in a program of practical and experimental training in the fields of acting and technical theater, including such notable artists as Kathy Bates, Jessica Chastain, Zac Efron, Boyd Gaines, Patrick Page, and Robin Williams.
Your support of the PCPA Endowment ensures this bold theatrical legacy will be financially supported for years to come.
PCPA Foundation Legacy Society
The PCPA Legacy Society was established to recognize and gratefully acknowledge friends whose planned gifts show that the future of PCPA is close to their hearts.
“The PCPA Foundation endowment provides a bedrock of resources for PCPA to consistently produce professional theater on the Central Coast. As inflation increases over the years, the growth of the endowment fund is vital to provide meaningful and consistent support for the cultural and educational missions of PCPA.
This consistent support allows PCPA to be proactive in supporting our community and our students, rather than reacting to urgent financial needs.”
Jennifer Schwartz
Managing Director, PCPA