What We Do

Centering BIPOC Business Voices: A community conversation to promote equitable small business recovery

We want to invite small business owners to share your stories, what is important to your business, your aspirations for small business support, and what the community can do to help you succeed. Queremos invitar a los propietarios de pequeñas empresas a compartir sus historias, lo que es importante para su empresa, sus aspiraciones de apoyo a las pequeñas empresas y lo que la comunidad puede hacer para ayudarlo a tener éxito.

Protected: Celebration of Impact

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Reinventing Our Communities Cohort Launches

A cross-sector collaboration of organizations, businesses, and community members in Lancaster County is proud to announce its participation in the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s second annual Reinventing Our Communities (ROC) cohort program. This program will use a lens of racial justice to focus on equitable business recovery, and to support small business owners and entrepreneurs disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and those that have been historically and systematically oppressed.   

3 things we’re learning from Lancaster Snapshot

Scholarship Awards for 2020-2021

Each year we are able to award scholarships to help advance Lancaster County students education thanks to generous donors with a passion for supporting the future generation. This year we awarded 29 scholarships to extraordinary students pursuing careers in various fields such as environmental science, law, music business, nursing, and much more. Thanks to you […]

2021-2022 Scholarship Awards

2021 ExtraGive Info Session

Join to learn what's new, returning, and getting even more extraordinary in the 2021 ExtraGive!

Creating a regional support for spirit, mind, and body

With support from the Community Foundation's Partnership Program, the YMCA of York County and Lancaster County will be joining forces to amplify impact across the region.

Local Juneteenth Celebrations

Organizations and individuals across our community offer a variety of ways to experience and honor Juneteenth We've gathered some local celebrations here:

PA is Ready Briefing

Regional foundations and grantmakers, including the Community Foundation, were privileged to attend a briefing from PA is Ready!, a community-led network and participatory grantmaking serving Pennsylvania’s diverse immigrant and refugee communities. In the presentation, members of the PA is Ready! coalition shared how communities are mobilizing to build on their existing strengths and provide a forum for discussion on how funders can support these efforts, as well as discuss the ongoing needs and barriers they face in social and political contexts.