The following was excerpted from the Summer 1998 (Vol. VI  No. 3) issue of Eastern Pennsylvania Youth Soccer Association's "Touchline" publication:

The excerpt is an article "Danville Area Soccer" by Jeff Pyros, within the "USSF Grant Winners in EPYSA Area" section of Touchline.

    Need money?  What soccer club doesn't?  But is your soccer club aware that the USSF has established, with the profits from the World Cup, a $50 million dollar fund to promote the development of quality soccer in the US?  And that grants from this fund are available to clubs on an annual basis?  Donna Outt, the vice president of the Danville Area Soccer Association, will be glad to tell you about it.
    Like many soccer clubs, Danville continually competes with other sports for available fields.  As the other sports, in particular baseball, are usually more established, soccer teams are often forced to make due with whatever fields they can find.   Outt was aware, however, that due to down-sizing, land might be freed for a number of sports fields on the Danville Hospital grounds.  The problem was how to finance the development of this land, as it could take over $20,000 to survey, level, prepare adequate drainage, and seed a single soccer field.
    Outt, who is also a District 13 commissioner, listened closely when the EPYSA announced the USSF grant program at a board meeting in mid-1997.  But unlike the majority of the other attendees, she followed up with Richard Groff, a former president of EPYSA and a member of the Grant Committee of the USSF.  Groff subsequently came to Danville and made a presentation to the Danville Area officers detailing the grant program and offering his assistance in completing the approximately seven page application.
    Per Groff the USSF has declared the goal of holding and winning the World Cup in 2010.  In order to achieve this lofty goal, the USSF has recognized that it needs to promote quality soccer on the grassroots level.  The grant fund was created with the mission of providing monetary assistance to soccer clubs to improve fields, referees, and coaches.  Grants are to be awarded on a yearly basis, with the deadline for applications in the late fall and the awards being in the late spring.   With the USSF mission in mind, Groff offered advice and answered the questions of the Danville officers.  Over the next few months, he provided moral support.   Finally, in late fall of 1997, Danville submitted its application.
    In May of 1998, Danville was informed that it had been awarded a grant of $50,000.  This money is to be used to develop the fields in the Danville area (the USSF prefers that grant money be used to develop fields, not purchase land for fields).   Danville plans to use this grant money as seed money and will now apply to various companies for additional grants and in-kind services in an effort to raise enough capital to complete the project.  Working with the borough, the state, and the hospital, the Danville Area Soccer Association has been able to secure a ten-year lease on approximately 22 acres of land on the hospital grounds.  This land should translate into about 15 fields for the club.  Additionally, Penn State University is working with the club to create an appropriate seed for the fields' grass.
    While not (yet) a full-fledged success, Donna Outt and the Danville Area Soccer Association have shown that money to support soccer is out there ----- it's just a question of asking the right people.