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Primary Exempt Purpose: To provide the Williamsport community with educational resources for nurturing artists, artisans, craftspeople, community builders, and innovative thinkers to ignite a spirit of creativity that enriches our entire community. . Part III, Line 28, Exempt Purpose Achievements: The Historic Neighborhood Trust, dba Factory Works, provides access to tools, space, and a supportive environment for community members to engage in healthy activities that lead to positive personal and professional growth. Through our programs, we offer educational opportunities and shop access to various disciplines through classes, workshops, memberships, peer-to-peer mentorship, community initiatives, and special events. . Our programs are Bicycle Recycle, a Clay Studio, a Photo Lab, and a community Woodshop. Most of our programming is open to all ages and skill levels, and places a strong emphasis on education, skills, confidence building, collaboration, and community service. Discounmts are provided for students, veterans, and recipients of Medicaid, SNAP, and PACE benefits. . Our 2024 community outreach included a Woodshop Veterans Initiative, where we offered free and discounted resources, classes, and memberships to veterans through an annual $200 discount to use in the woodshop. . Our Bicycle Recycle program worked with low-income programs to provide bicycles and instruction to groups such as foster families and recently incarcerated individuals. Over 200 bicycles were kept out of the landfill by the repair and refreshing of the bicycles as part of our community advocacy program. . The Photo Lab offered low-cost and free classes to students from St. John Neumann High School. A self-efficacy-building project was conducted with one group from AR Health, a community-based program serving the LGBTQ+ population. Public classes were held in film developing and darkroom printing. . The Clay Studio offered classes to beginners in wheel throwing and hand building to enable class completers to work independently in our Clay Studio. Through our community outreach, free events, classes, and memberships, we reached an estimated 500 people in our local and regional…