11 / 05
2019
BOYERTOWN, PA (November 5, 2019) – The Boyertown Area Charitable Program of Berks County Community Foundation has awarded $64,741 in grants to six projects. The [...]
10 / 24
2019
READING, PA (October 24, 2019) – Berks County’s nonprofit executive directors and high-potential staff members can earn a new Nonprofit Management Certificate by participating in [...]
10 / 21
2019
READING, PA (October 21, 2019) – Grants are available for certified energy audit providers to conduct 20 audits in Pennsylvania and for organizations to run [...]
10 / 07
2019
READING, PA (October 7, 2019) – Megan Roswick has joined Berks County Community Foundation’s team as Director of Accounting. Megan received her Bachelor of Science [...]
08 / 30
2019
MORGANTOWN, PA (August 30, 2019) – The blast furnace at Historic Joanna Furnace Iron Works has been preserved in time for the 43rd annual Hay [...]
08 / 21
2019
READING, PA (August 21, 2019) – The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) recently matched $127,354 in scholarships awarded to 85 students by Berks County [...]
08 / 01
2019
READING, PA (August 1, 2019) – Berks County Community Foundation has awarded $45,300 to 10 organizations to bring arts programs to downtown Reading. This [...]
07 / 29
2019
READING, PA (July 29, 2019) – Berks County Community Foundation has elected two new members and re-elected three other members to its Board of Directors. [...]
07 / 26
2019
A new Pennsylvania law will give foster kids a tuition-free ride at colleges in the Commonwealth. READING, PA (July 26, 2019) – A [...]
07 / 18
2019
READING, PA (July 18, 2019) – Berks County Community Foundation awarded $33,300 in grants to support K9 units at various law enforcement agencies in the [...]
07 / 11
2019
READING, PA (July 11, 2019) – The mission of the former First United Church of Christ in Reading continues. A charitable fund that the church [...]
07 / 10
2019
READING, PA (July 10, 2019) – In an earlier entry in The President’s Journal, I discussed the Community Foundation’s project to identify and catalog all [...]
07 / 03
2019
READING, PA (July 3, 2019) – This summer, the Community Foundation is hosting three interns to begin what may be a very long process. [...]
06 / 18
2019
READING, PA (June 18, 2019) – Four programs that engage youth and contribute to an improved atmosphere in the City of Reading have been awarded [...]
06 / 14
2019
READING, PA (June 14, 2019) – School districts in Berks County have spent millions of dollars on technology that has shifted students from being consumers [...]
06 / 04
2019
READING, PA (June 4, 2019) – The Met Ed Penelec Sustainable Energy Fund Energy Audit Toolkit Program will provide a grant to an organization within [...]
05 / 21
2019
READING, PA (May 21, 2019) – A group of Berks County women has made its largest annual round ever of donations to programs that help [...]
04 / 08
2019
READING, PA (April 8, 2019) – Youth Volunteer Corps of Reading will host Global Youth Service Day (GYSD), a Youth Service America international event, [...]
04 / 02
2019
READING, PA (April 2, 2019) – Locally-owned businesses are the strongest part of the fabric that makes up our business community. Many of our top [...]
03 / 27
2019
READING, PA (March 27, 2019) – What’s the state of hunger in Berks County? To find out, we had researchers from our Berks Vital Signs [...]