Two scholarships enabling local teachers to attend the Pennsylvania Department of Education's Shippensburg Conference on "Teaching the Lessons of the Holocaust" were awarded through the generosity of the local Jewish War Veterans and another donor. Such generosity has a ripple effect when one considers the numbers of students touched by each teacher.

In 1996, the HERC received a one-time grant from the Scranton Area Foundation for teacher-training,as well as praise for how the terms of that grant were fulfilled. The grant enabled us to co-sponsor a major In-Service day at the Northeast Education Intermediate Unit and provide highly qualified presenters from the Holocaust Education Task Force.