Who We Are

Jump Street is a private, nonprofit, community based arts incubator, serving Central Pennsylvania for over twenty years. Located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Jump Street serves Cumberland, Dauphin, and York Counties. Our expertise is in arts based program development, consulting to artists and arts organizations, and community arts development. Jump Street, by supporting community and economic development through art, has successfully employed art in a way that makes it tangible and accessible to many who perceive the world of art as inaccessible and closed to the masses. Additionally, we employ artists allowing them to practice their area of artistry while sharing their skills and abilities. We provide a safe and encouraging atmosphere in which artists and students from diverse backgrounds can have what is very often their first experience with various art forms and cultures.

Areas of Focus

Arts Education
Coordinate and provide arts education programs. Examples: Gift of Music - Establish and re-establish music performance ensembles in schools by donating refurbished instruments.

Seniors
Establish meaningful recreational programming and connections to the community through meaningful arts programming for those 62+ in age.

Economically Disadvantaged Youth
Provide challenging arts programs that also incorporate meaningful life skills.

Assist Artists and Arts Organizations
Provide consultation in organizational management, business development, and new technologies responding to the needs of artists and arts organizations. Increase skill competencies through technical assistance, resulting in stabilizing emerging agencies.

Audience Development and Arts Marketing
Create two marketing strategies, one for Jump Street and the other, to market the arts and selected organizations.

Form New Partnerships
Address community needs as they arise, i.e.: Community Development Block Grant for seniors' arts programming in Steelton area.

Extended Learning Opportunities
Concludes with product manufactured for non-arts agencies. Ex. Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape CD and Dauphin County Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco public service announcements.

The official registration and financial information of the organization may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Charitable Organizations, by calling toll-free within Pennsylvania, (800) 732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement.

Jump Street receives major funding from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts.