"Local television station WRC-TV Channel 4 awarded a total of $100,000 in grants, via its parent company’s foundation, to five Washington-area organizations during a ceremony in Northwest recently.

The brief Wed., Aug. 18 presentation, held at NBC 4 on Nebraska Avenue in the network’s first-floor studio, was attended by about 70 people, who gave a round of applause to City Year, Strive DC, EnvironMentors, the Patricia M. Sitar Arts Center, and EduSerc as they received grants ranging from $15,000 to $25,000......

The Patricia M. Sitar Arts Center of Northwest received a $20,000 grant and provides performing and visual arts classes for children in Washington’s underserved communities; it has now received grants from NBC 4 for three years, said Executive Director Ed Spitzberg, and this year’s award will help to fund its arts program for youth.

“We have a number of classes specifically for the teens. We also have a special program called [the] SEAL, Sitar Emerging Arts Leaders, and that in addition to delving more deeply into the specific art forms, it’s also a leadership program for our teens, and not only provides them a safe place to be after school, it provides them arts training, [and] it provides them with skills that will be useful later on,” Spitzberg said."

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Click here to watch Executive Director, Ed Spitzberg, accept the award on NBC4.