Lancaster County Community Foundation

As we look toward the next 100 years, we're thrilled to partner with Junior Achievement of South Central PA 🥳

For over 62 years, Junior Achievement of South Central PA has been igniting a passion for success in our children and young adults. With their Endowment Fund at Lancaster Community Foundation, we're ensuring a bright future where every student can explore careers, master finances, and fuel our local economy.

Together, we're shaping a stronger, smarter Lancaster. 💪✨

Learn more about how you can ensure the vibrancy of the next generation at https://www.lancfound.org/give/

Join us TOMORROW, Sunday, August 4th, from 2:00-3:30 PM at Binns Park for an unforgettable afternoon with The New Holland Band! 🎺

As part of our festivities, enjoy iconic marches, Broadway hits, movie classics, and more. It’s a perfect way to savor summer and connect with community.

Learn more about all our exciting events at ➡️ ewellplaza.com

We are honored to share that $214,950 in Passion Grants have been awarded to help fund a wide variety of projects. 💚

With help from volunteer grant reviewers and through the power of our community’s endowment, these awards are working to provide immediate resources for food insecurity, nurture self-esteem, support maternal and infant health, preserve historic sites, address mental health and social issues, and promote music education in Lancaster County.

These grants are made possible thanks to people who chose to leave legacy gifts that support Lancaster County every year. They represent a collective commitment to building a more inclusive, informed, and sustainable community, where individuals of all backgrounds can thrive and contribute to positive change.

Meet the 2024 Passion Grant recipients at lancfound.org/announcing-200000-in-grants-to-organizations-throughout-lancaster-county.

We’re celebrating our 100th anniversary by partnering with individuals, organizations, and communities to invest in Lancaster County for the next 100 years! 🎉

Mainspring of Ephrata hosted its first ever community-wide Chalk the Walk event, made possible through the Next 100 Year Boost Awards. Artists of all experience levels participated, covering East and West Main Streets with imaginative drawings.🎨 ✨ View a video recap of the event at canva.com/design/DAGKphceS8o/lCSIS7tTjYpLpdKerGvyKg/watch?utm_content=DAGKphceS8o&utm_ca

In addition to more than $1 million in extra funding for Lancaster County community benefit organizations and students, we are offering local chambers of commerce and business organizations an opportunity to boost their forward-focused initiatives.

We are thrilled to see future-shaping strategies and projects bring local communities together, now and for decades to come! 🙌

Join us TOMORROW from 6-9 at Ewell Plaza for SALSA NIGHT with Jasmin Rodriguez Pantoja from Mambojaz and DJ Poli. 🌼 Everyone is welcome!

For more info on FREE events, visit ➡ EwellPlaza.com.

Join us TOMORROW from 7-9PM at Binns Park, as the one and only Thunda Khatt leads "Rolling Thunda: Open Mic" as part of 's series of FREE events for the public.

🎨 All artists are welcome, but poets get first consideration. Come listen to your friends and neighbors liberate themselves through the power of their words. Maybe you’ll be inspired to sign up too!

Check out other free events at ➡www.ewellplaza.com

CONGRATULATIONS SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS! 🧑‍🎓 🎉

The Community Foundation is honored to award yearly scholarships to help advance Lancaster County students’ education. This year, we are proud to award 44 scholarships to extraordinary students pursuing careers in various fields such as agriculture, mechanical engineering, pre-med, international relations, biochemistry, journalism, economics, and much more.

We thank our generous donors for their passion in supporting the next 100 years and beyond.

Meet the scholars at lancfound.org/scholarship-awards-for-2024-2025-have-been-announced.

EXTRAGIVE APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN! 🥳

Lancaster County is extraordinary because of YOU! Join more than 400 local community benefit organizations participating in ExtraGive on November 22. As a participant in Lancaster’s largest day of giving, your organization can raise funds, elevate awareness about your work, and engage new donors.

Again this year, we’ll offer prizes and a stretch pool of at least half a million dollars that will be distributed based on an organization's number of unique donors. Whether someone makes a $10 donation or a $100 donation, each gift will go further for the causes our community members care about.

Thanks to our presenting sponsors High Foundation, Murry Foundation, and our other community sponsors, each contribution will make an even bigger impact for our community.

Visit extragive.org to apply! Keep an eye out for updates and resources to help your organization prepare for November 22 🎉

Join us on Sunday, July 21st from 2:00-3:30PM, as we enjoy the spirited tunes of The New Holland Band. 🥳

As part of the celebration, this dynamic group will fill your afternoon with famous marches, Broadway and movie classics, popular overtures, and much more!

Make sure to stay cool with your favorite icy treat from !!

Learn more about all the upcoming Summer for Lancaster events at ➡ewellplaza.com

As part of our 100th year, our friends at Fig Lancaster are sharing the dreams of Lancaster County community members throughout the year! 💭

Visit lancfound.org/100-dreams-for-lancaster to read the dreams of our neighbors as we work together to shape a thriving, inclusive, resilient future for all who call Lancaster County home.

Photography by Jennifer Foster

Are you enthusiastic, self-motivated, organized, detail-oriented and interested in joining the Community Foundation team?

We are currently hiring for the position of Program Officer.

To learn more about this opportunity, go to www.lancfound.org/careers ⭐

The LGBTQ Giving Circle recently awarded $100,000 in grants that will support and celebrate LGBTQ+ Lancastrians.

We are proud to partner with the LGBTQ+ Giving Circle. Read more about the awardees here: https://www.lancfound.org/lgbtq-giving-circle-awards-100000-to-organizations-in-lancaster-county/

Join us tomorrow evening at Ewell Plaza for an evening of free celebration, music & dance, and culture. ⭐

From 5-8pm, you'll get to experience a variety of food and craft vendors. Afterwards, Music Friday will be opening the dance floor in Binns Park with a DJ and dancers from Mambojaz Dance Company and Move It Studio.

Learn about upcoming Summer of Lancaster events here: https://ewellplaza.com/calendar/

Do you know what makes the I Love Lancaster Fund so unique? 🤔

Because it is endowed, it grows over time to support emerging needs, while keeping the vibrance of our shared future as its priority. The I Love Lancaster Fund is our most flexible and responsive fund, making it possible to invest in projects like the Enola Low Grade Rail Trail.

In 1994, the I Love Lancaster Found supported the first Enola Rail Trail Study, helping to turn a non-accessible area in Southern Lancaster County into what is now a 29-mile long recreation trail along the Susquehanna, spanning from Conestoga to Atglen, that hundreds of community members enjoy. 🌿

When you give to the I Love Lancaster Fund, you join 100 years’ worth of visionary funders who worked to create a way to support emerging needs throughout the county. You give it. We grow it. For Lancaster. Forever.

Learn more by going to ➡ Our Funds using the link in bio.

Photo by Mark Kissinger / Susquehanna Greenway Partnership

Get ready to celebrate our extraordinary community together again this year on November 22! 🎉

Join us virtually for our 2024 ExtraGive Info Session, where you can learn what's new this year and how to make the most of Lancaster County's largest day of giving, hear about future training opportunities in the lead-up to the ExtraGive, and ask any questions you may have!

If your organization or an organization you love is interested in participating in ExtraGive this year, register for this upcoming session at eventbrite.com/e/extragive-2024-information-session-tickets-910789234117.

Our friends at Fig Lancaster are helping us celebrate 100 years of community impact! ✨

For the last 100 years, the generosity, innovation, and commitment to our shared community established a culture of philanthropy that will be part of changing the next 100 years. To mark this milestone anniversary, Fig is teaming up with the Community Foundation to highlight the dreams of members of the Lancaster community throughout the year.

Visit our website to read the dreams of our neighbors, as we work together to shape a thriving, inclusive, resilient future for all who call Lancaster County home.

Photography by Jenny Foster

Shaping Tomorrow Award applications are now open! 🎉

To celebrate 100 years of impact, we want to catalyze ideas that will inspire our community to change the next 100! Through the Shaping Tomorrow Awards, we will invest more than $1 Million into Lancaster County.

➡️ Stage 1 Deadline: July 22, 2024
➡️ Stage 2 Invitations sent: July 31, 2024
➡️ Stage 2 Deadline: August 19, 2024

Apply now! Learn more at lancfound.org/grants.

Do you know what makes the I Love Lancaster Fund so unique? Because it is endowed, it grows over time to support emerging needs, while keeping the vibrance of our shared future as its priority.

In fact, it’s our most flexible and responsive fund, making it possible to invest in critical opportunities like HDC MidAtlantic’s College Avenue affordable housing project at the former Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Lancaster.

With a grant from the I Love Lancaster fund, HDC MidAtlantic is redeveloping the former hospital into a mixed-use site that will provide affordable housing to local residents. This renovation will not only meet the critical need for affordable housing in our community, but it also aligns with the priorities defined in Lancaster County Planning's Lancaster County Places 2040 plan, the Lancaster City Alliance's Building on Strength Economic Development Strategic Plan, and the City of Lancaster, PA's Interim Housing Strategy.

When you give to the I Love Lancaster Fund, you join 100 years’ worth of visionary funders who worked to create a way to support emerging needs throughout the county. You give it. We grow it. For Lancaster. Forever.

Learn more by going to lancfound.org/forever-lancaster-storiesofgiving/funds

Join our Next 100 Partner, the Lancaster Conservancy, during the 8th annual Lancaster Water Week for over 60 events to learn more about their work as we paddle, explore, volunteer, and take action to protect our streams and rivers for the future!💧

Learn more at Lancaster Conservancy

Something BIG is coming to Lancaster this summer, and EVERYONE IS WELCOME! ☀️

Join us all season long as we celebrate everything we love about Lancaster County today, and dream together about what Lancaster County can be like for the generations of tomorrow.

Together with the City of Lancaster, PA , The Steinman Institute for Civic Engagement, and ATOMIC , we invite you to enjoy a series of free events in Ewell Plaza and Binns Park.

Find out how you can be part of the celebration at summerforlancaster.org.

During her life, Elizabeth Walton Hiryok was known for her upbeat, positive way of reaching out to people to help them through tough times. Her selflessness was an example of the impact each of us can make when we put others first. Beth actively participated in managing how her family’s donor advised fund contributed to the community for years until her passing, after which it was renamed Beth’s Legacy to honor her memory.

Beth’s Legacy is partnering with Solanco Neighborhood Ministries, an organization that provides a support network, promotes personal and spiritual growth, increases self-sufficiency, and aims to break the cycle of poverty within the Solanco community. One of the primary ways they serve the community is through their food bank, which during the 2023-2024 school year, sent over 60,000 meals home with students in the district. Solanco Neighborhood Ministries has experienced a 40% increase in the number of food orders they provide over the past year, with the number of students in their weekend meal program reaching a program high of 290.

For all of May 2024, Beth’s Legacy is providing a $25,000 matching gift to Solanco Neighborhood Ministries to encourage others to contribute to Lancastrians in need.

Give now to Solanco Neighborhood Ministries and join Beth’s Legacy in supporting well-being & vibrancy in Lancaster County or explore how to establish a fund of your own by going to ➡ Our Funds using the link in bio.

Join our Next 100 Years Partners, High Foundation and WITF on May 16 for a series of conversations about Cultivating Well-Being and Vibrancy with local leaders. This event runs from 5 pm to 6:30 pm and is free and open to the public, with registration highly encouraged.

Here’s what to expect:

🍹 Drinks and light snacks
🤝 An opportunity to connect with others
📢 A moderated panel discussion with local experts
🎞 Live recording of the event with Marquis Lupton of WITF and The Spark

Come before 5:30 pm to mix, mingle, and enjoy snacks. We can't wait to see you there! RSVP here ➡ lancfound.org/community-conversations-well-being-and-vibrancy-in-our-communities

Passion Grant Deadline Alert! ⚠️

➡️ Letter of Intent: May 10
➡️ Final Application: May 17

Find more info and apply at lancfound.org/grants.

It will be an absolute honor to accept the Exemplar Award on behalf of all the dedicated Lancastrians who have been part of the Community Foundation for the last 100 years.

Our team looks forward to sharing our gratitude alongside each celebrated local leader this summer. See you there!

RegenAll is hosting its annual Climate Summit on April 26 and 27. 🌏 We invite you to join our Change the Next 100 Partner in imagining a more vibrant, resilient future in Lancaster County by investing in climate action.

Learn more at RegenAll

Have you heard the news? 🎉

The Community Foundation announced the second round of winners of the once-in-a-century Shaping Tomorrow Awards, part of more than $1 million of additional funds to support future-looking community impact.

A total of $273,000 was awarded to six local organizations that impact Lancaster County through providing healthcare, mental wellness, positive aging, accessibility services, and more.

Congratulations to Bright Side Opportunities Center, Mental Health America of Lancaster County, Union Community Care, United Disabilities Services Foundation, Clinic for Special Children, and Lancaster Downtowners.

Find out more about the winning projects and stay tuned for more awards this year as we .

Meet the winners at lancfound.org/shaping-tomorrow-well-being-vibrancy-awards-announced.

The Holran Family knows that having a sense of well-being and vibrancy can come from many sources. Books, libraries, education, outreach in their faith, and taking care of their neighbors were an integral part of their family’s well-being. Now they're a fundamental piece of their giving.

After the passing of her husband Bruce in 2021, Barbara decided the estate gift that she and Bruce established 30 years ago should be distributed while she is living. With the support of her family, the Forever Lancaster team helped Barbara disburse her gift to 14 community benefit organizations. This included endowments held at the Community Foundation that support Lancaster Conservancy, Lancaster Public Library, and Samaritan Center, Lancaster. They also established the John and Anna Erb Fund for Lancaster County Parks.

Their extraordinary gift will help new generations find peace and wellness wherever they seek it, whether it’s on a hike or in a good book. Find out more about how you can change the next 100 years through giving at changethenext100.org.

Your perspective matters. Become a grant reviewer with the Lancaster County Community Foundation.

Learn more here: https://www.lancfound.org/volunteer-to-be-a-grant-reviewer/

In celebration of our 100th anniversary, our Next 100 Years Partner Gretna Music is giving away 100 FREE TICKETS to any of their 15 performances in their 2024 season!

Check out their season lineup at gretnamusic.org and select from a variety of classical, jazz and world music performances. Use promo code: NEXT100. Limit of two tickets per household, while supplies last.

Thank you for this opportunity to celebrate creative expression in our community, Gretna Music!