Strong Nonprofits: Managing the Money
Grantmaker2016-01-27T17:46:29-05:00Running a nonprofit is no easy business. A passion for the cause may drive the bulk of your work, but to be successful that passion [...]
01 / 27
2016
About Grantmaker
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01 / 15
2016
Your Mission: Get People to Penn Street
Grantmaker2016-01-15T15:46:08-05:00If you’ve noticed an uptick in activity in downtown Reading this year, you’re not imagining things. This place is hopping. And now is your opportunity [...]
03 / 04
2015
The method to our madness
Grantmaker2015-03-04T16:01:50-05:00In fiscal year 2014, Berks County Community Foundation distributed $665,119 in scholarships and $2.4 million in grants from more than 300 funds set up by [...]
01 / 26
2015
State expands required background checks and mandatory reporter designations for employees and volunteers who work with children
Grantmaker2015-01-26T19:00:34-05:00To protect children from abuse, updated regulations went into effect in Pennsylvania on Dec. 31, 2014. The regulations expand the categories of people who are [...]
08 / 20
2014
A Hail of a Ride
Grantmaker2014-08-20T14:42:03-04:00Like most people who work or live around Reading, my car developed a bad case of cellulite after the big hail storm in May. It’s [...]
05 / 06
2014
Biomass in PA
Grantmaker2016-10-12T17:41:53-04:00If you’ve followed the Community Foundation for any period of time, you know that we have about 300 charitable funds that support nearly as many [...]
04 / 14
2014
Shirk Award To Honor Kevin Murphy
Grantmaker2014-04-14T18:17:21-04:00If you've been around Berks County for any period of time, chances are you've run into Kevin Murphy. As the president of the Community Foundation [...]
01 / 06
2014
Boyertown: A Special Kind of Place
Grantmaker2014-01-06T15:28:43-05:00For more than a decade the Community Foundation kept an office at 23 South Reading Avenue in Boyertown. Over the years the office was manned [...]
11 / 11
2013
Power of the Purse is Back
Grantmaker2013-11-11T15:27:01-05:00The ladies who contribute to the Power of the Purse in Berks County Fund recently kicked off their second year at a meeting at the [...]
09 / 03
2013
Arts and Community
Grantmaker2013-09-03T14:58:42-04:00We intuitively understand that the arts add value to our lives. We listen to music, watch live and filmed performances, admire photos, paintings and sculptures, [...]
06 / 18
2013
Tennis, Anyone?
Grantmaker2013-06-18T16:59:07-04:00We recently awarded three grants from the Berks County Tennis Fund to programs that teach kids how to play tennis. The instruction in each program [...]
05 / 10
2013
Great Grants for Women and Children
Grantmaker2013-05-10T18:26:09-04:00This month the ladies who make up the Power of the Purse in Berks County Fund will announce the grants they’ve recommended in this, their [...]
04 / 16
2013
In Support of Libraries
Grantmaker2013-04-16T15:40:17-04:00This month, the Community Foundation is accepting grant applications from local libraries that plan to run unique and interesting programs later this year. The grants [...]
02 / 01
2013
Sunshine Review
Grantmaker2013-02-01T18:57:47-05:00I'm conducting research on how people get information in Berks County. My first step was to ask community members to go on an "information scavenger [...]
01 / 04
2013
Make a Stylish Difference
Grantmaker2013-01-04T20:34:45-05:00As you may have heard by now, The Power of the Purse in Berks County Fund was created at the Community Foundation in 2012 by [...]
11 / 16
2012
Boyertown Student Health Risk Behavior Survey Available Here
Grantmaker2012-11-16T18:48:32-05:00If you’ve had a chance to hang around with any of us at the Community Foundation, you know we’re big fans of using data to [...]
07 / 10
2012
Toothpick World Fuses Engineering and Art for an Educational Journey Around the Globe
Grantmaker2012-07-10T17:59:24-04:00A passionate educator brings the world into the classroom. A really passionate educator finds a way to bring the world to the whole community. Penn [...]
05 / 09
2012
Resources for Libraries
Grantmaker2012-05-09T19:26:53-04:00I was invited to spend two days in Washington DC last week to learn about the issues facing libraries in the US and around the [...]