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Change starts with a spark. Your spark.

We’ll turn it into a shining light across Berks County.

Change starts with a spark. Your spark.

We’ll turn it into a shining light across Berks County.

Change starts with a spark. Your spark.

We’ll turn it into a shining light across Berks County.

Change starts with a spark. Your spark.

We’ll turn it into a shining light across Berks County.

In the Spotlight

Berks County Community Foundation Program Officers Highlight Initiatives at 2023 Annual Meeting  

Berks County Community Foundation Program Officers Highlight Initiatives at 2023 Annual Meeting  

On November 8, Berks County Community Foundation held its Annual Meeting at the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Reading. More than 100 civic leaders attended the event, which included brief presentations by the Community Foundation’s program officers and an overview of the year by Kevin…

November 20, 2023

Erica Caceres, Communication Manager
Youth Hockey League Offers Kids a Chance to Play   

Youth Hockey League Offers Kids a Chance to Play   

Six-year-old Timothy begged his mother to let him take skating lessons after seeing one of the Reading Royals ice hockey games. Observing the players skate so quickly excited him. Timothy’s mother requested help paying for the skating lessons from the Royals Youth Hockey Fund of…

November 10, 2023

Emily Smedley, Environment and Energy Program Officer
A Piping Good Time for Kids in Berks County 

A Piping Good Time for Kids in Berks County 

The Community Foundation manages several charitable funds that benefit cultural groups and organizations. In early 2023, the Kutztown Pipe Band, which is made up of students, faculty, and staff from Kutztown University, local students, and community members, requested a grant from the Juniper Fund to…

October 27, 2023

Kim Sheffer, Lifelong Learning Program Officer

Creating a brighter Berks County for us, our children, and future residents.

Together. That’s how we get things done. As a community foundation, we help the people of Berks County do great things by distributing life-changing grants, scholarships, and other forms of support. 

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Arts and Culture

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Environment and Energy

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Education

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Health and Human Services

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Neighborhoods and Economic Development

Neighborhoods and Economic Development

Neighborhoods and Economic Development

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See how our community can help.

Whether you’re looking to give, or need funding to do great things, the outcome is the same – a better Berks County for us all. 

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Shining a light on good work through funds local residents created.

We’re proud to help the local residents of our great community create and manage funds supporting many causes in need of assistance. If you can help any or all of these projects, we’re here to help you make that happen.

Learn About Creating a Fund

The Albany Township Tomorrow Fund

Walter Hamm created this fund in honor of Pauline Levan Hamm and Gloria Longenberger Hamm. Today, the fund provides grant to support community activities in the township they loved.

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Berks County Association of School Retirees Scholarship and Mini-Grant Fund

Retired employees from local schools created this fund to ensure teachers in Berks County’s public schools have funding for special projects and programs that benefit the children in their classrooms.

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Earl and Helen Poole Memorial Fund

The Poole family created this fund to provide ongoing, annual support to Berks Nature, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, the Reading Public Museum, and the Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University.

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First United Church of Christ Mission Fund

Remaining members created this endowment when the church closed to continue their charitable work of helping children and seniors and reducing hunger in Berks County.

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