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Community Funds

The Community Foundation gives you a way to put your passions into action. We connect you to a wide spectrum of local community benefit organizations and help you make a long-term impact on the issues that matter to you. Learn more about Forever Lancaster, browse our community funds below, or get inspired by local stories of giving.

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Reimagining Our Community (ROC) Giving Circle

The Reimagining Our Community (ROC) Giving Circle is a way for the community to support BIPOC small business resources through collective philanthropy.

Reparations Action Fund for Tomorrow

History In 2023, Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster established the Reparations Action Fund for Tomorrow (RAFFT) to address systemic inequities experienced by descendants of enslaved Africans.  Understanding generations of racial injustice have resulted from chattel slavery and Jim Crow segregation, other congregations of all faith traditions and individuals are invited to contribute a portion of […]

Residents of Moravian Manor Communities Education Award

The Residents of Moravian Manor Communities Education Award was established to provide an annual award to a graduating senior from Warwick High School.

Rick Frankhouser Scholarship for Music and/or Linguistics

This scholarship is in memory of Rick Frankhouser and his love of music and linguistics as universal forms of communication.

Robert “Bob” Derr Memorial Scholarship Fund

This fund honors Bob Derr and his legacy of coaching and teaching at Warwick for 49 years.

Rotary Club of Lancaster Centennial Fund

The Rotary Centennial Fund is to encourage endowment giving from Rotary members, Rotary families and the community. Funds will be used by the Rotary Club of Lancaster Foundation to support community programs in the City of Lancaster, School District of Lancaster and surrounding communities.

Russ & Nancy White Track & Field Scholarship

The Russ and Nancy White Track & Field Scholarship provides an annual scholarship for a Garden Spot graduating senior who participated in Track for at least two seasons, and who is pursuing postsecondary education and/or trade school.

Samaritan Counseling Center Endowment

This fund will support and further the mission of the Center, which is to foster hope and healing through professional counseling, consultation and education while respecting and integrating personal and spiritual values.  The Center strives to ensure that quality professional counseling services are accessible to all people, regardless of ability to pay full fee. Donated funds make it possible for the Center to subsidize fees for those who have little or no financial resources.

Santa Stumble

The Santa Stumble Fund supports local community benefit organizations from proceeds of the annual Lancaster Santa Stumble.

Sharon Sherban Family Fund for Women and Girls

Established for the purpose of supporting women and girls in need of food, shelter, education, healthcare, and counseling.

Stephen Jonathan Swartz Scholarship Fund

Established in memory of Stephen Jonathan Swartz, this fund supports a scholarship for a student at Susquehanna Waldorf School that exhibits values of good citizenship and commitment to the environment.

Stuart H. & Marie T. Raub Fund

This fund will benefit organizations and causes important to the Raub Family. 

Suzanne M. High Family Fund

Suzanne M. High Family Fund

This fund was established to contribute to and invest in projects and organizations that align with the values and interests of the Suzanne M. High family.

Teen Mental Health Screening and Referral Fund

The Teen Mental Health Screening and Referral Fund was established to help support programs that identify teens at risk of experiencing mental health difficulties including depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts; and then refers them to providers who can assist them.

Tenfold: A. Grace Wenger Endowment

Fund established for the benefit of Tabor Community Services to help people help themselves and solve their housing and financial problems and in the process rebuild their lives and contribute to the health of our community.

 

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