Current Initiatives
Since 1924, the Community Foundation has worked with people throughout the region to care for what we all have in common: Lancaster County.
Community benefit organizations bring innovative ideas and experience. Students bring focus and determination. Donors bring generosity and vision. And we bring the power of endowment to support them all.
Together we are shaping a resilient, inclusive, vibrant Lancaster County.
Our Current Initiatives
The Weaver Awards
As a Community Host in partnership with Weave: The Social Fabric Project at the Aspen Institute, we will lead a four-year effort to find, support, and celebrate everyday neighbors who are building trust, nurturing belonging, and weaving the social fabric in our community.
Stay tuned for updates!
ExtraGive
For one extraordinary day each year, Lancaster County is transformed into a community-wide celebration of generosity that supports hundreds of community benefit organizations serving our region.
Since 2012, more than 40,000 donors have raised $120 million for causes they care about.
Caring For The Community's Endowment
Philanthropy works best when we all have the chance to bring our perspectives, interests, and ideas to the table. For more than 100 years, we’ve been working with people throughout Lancaster County to build the community’s endowment, a powerful resource that helps us care for each other and our shared spaces. By connecting generosity to impact, we can unleash the power of endowment and create lasting change.
Our Local Impact
Lancaster County is a vibrant place with a wide range of needs, ideas, and passions. Thanks to the community’s endowment, we have the honor of emboldening the extraordinary through grants, scholarships, and collaborative initiatives.
Granting
At the Community Foundation, we connect your organization to a range of resources as we work together to shape our shared future. We invite you to explore opportunities including learning sessions, partnership connections, resources to support your organizational development, and grant opportunities. We are able to do this work thanks to our community’s endowment, a unique and powerful tool to support Lancaster County—forever!
News & Events
Find out how our grants and initiatives are impacting our local community in our latest news updates and events.
