Facts and Figures
Do you know the people in your neighborhood?
Into the Weeds
There's No Place Like Home
What's in a Name?
NWC History
100
This is the Commission's largest funder?
What is Appalachian Regional Commission?
100
This is the number of Commission staff
What is 17?
100
Name of three of ARC's funding programs
What are Area Development, ARISE, INSPIRE, POWER, and WORC?
100
Number of counties served by the NW Commission
What is 8?
100
He's the Lieutenant Governor of PA
Who is Austin Davis?
100
This occurred on August 23, 1967
What is the signing of NWC articles of incorporation?
200
This is the date of the Commission's fiscal year end?
What is June 30th?
200
He is the Commission's spirit animal and go-to birthday meme
Who is Nicolas Cage?
200
This is the maximum grant amount a company can receive through the Global Access Program
What is $10,000.00?
200
The Iranian Hostage Crisis is remembered here
What is the Avenue of 444 Flags or Hillcrest Memorial Park?
200
He's the Secretary of the Dept of Community and Economic Development
Who is Rick Siger?
200
This is the number of ARC counties in Pennsylvania?
What is 52?
300
This is the number of ARC counties designated as Transitional.
What is 7?
300
He is the most tenured member of the NWC Board of Directors
Who is Jim Decker?
300
This is the match requirement for an ARC project in Warren County
What is 50%
300
This bridge disappears a few times each year in Forest County
What is the Nebraska Bridge?
300
He's the Governor's Representative for the NW region
Who is Mike Ferritto?
300
He was Acting Executive Director four times before retiring in 2016
Who is Ned Goucher?
400
This is the number of counties involved in the NWPA
BEAD application
What is 10?
400
She launched the Little Library located outside the Commission office
Who is Lisa Beach?
400
Clarion, Crawford, Forest, Venango, and Warren Counties are members of this NWC organization
What is the NW Rural Planning Organization?
400
This iconic structure was manufactured in what NW county?
What is Warren?
400
She's the Philadelphia District Director of EDA
Who is Linda Cruz-Carnall?
400
This is the FY that PREP replaced the LDD line item in the state's budget.
What is FY2010?
500
This is the percentage of the Commission's funding from federal sources
What is 67%
(but we'll take 70%)
500
This is the number of staff that have been with the Commission for more than 7 years
What is 10?
500
This is the year that the Local Development District of PA bill was passed by the state legislature
What is 1994?
500
This bakery is the origin of the Eat N Park Cookie
What is Warner's Bakery?
Located in Titusville, Crawford County
500
She's the ARC's federal Co-Chair
Who is Gayle Manchin?
500
This county was not original to the NW planning region
Who is Clarion County?
600
This is the Commission's Operating Budget for FY25
What is $2.7M?
($2,721,175 to be exact)
600
Who is older, Andrew or Aaron?
What is they don't know, they never asked?
600
The Office of Int'l Business Development and the Gov's Action Team merged to become this program in DCED
What is Business PA?
600
This was the first permanent settlement in NWPA
What is Meadville. It was settled in 1792
600
This president signed the Public Works and Economic Development and the Appalachian Regional Development Acts in 1965 creating EDA and ARC
Who is Lyndon B Johnson?
600
This is the year that the Commission's 501c3, Eminent Communities Institute was created.
What is 1998?