Provides assistance to address safety, permanency, and well-being issues of children. Includes child welfare, adoption and foster care, and other social services.

Provides children's, teen's, and adult services, large print books, DVDs, photocopiers, telephone/on-line reference service, Interlibrary loan, meeting facilities, computers and internet access, books on CD, newspapers, etc. Please, ask for Tom Healy, President of the Friends of the Library for more information. There is a membership fee to join.

Community Action Groups

Increases access to services, such as water and sewer systems, housing, health clinics, emergency service facilities, and electric and telephone service. Promotes economic development through loans to businesses. Provides technical assistance and information to help agricultural producers and cooperatives get started and improve their effectiveness.

Provides general funding to non-profit community agencies, volunteer opportunities, and information and referral services.

Provides fund disbursement/allocations assistance.

Operates an annual community campaign to provide funding for services and agencies accessed by Franklin County residents. The public is invited to participate by donating and helping raise awareness. Volunteers are needed from August through December.

Organized to receive and disburse funds for legal services to indigent clients, for the administration of justice, and for related charitable, scientific, or educational purposes.

Assists County agencies and eligible non-profits research, screen, develop, edit, apply for and manage a successful grant. Responsible for the application process for some of the County-issued requests for proposals.

EDA helps distressed communities address problems associated with long-term economic distress, as well as sudden and severe economic dislocations. EDA was established to generate jobs, help retain existing jobs, and stimulate economic growth in economically distressed areas.

Provides grants to non-profit organizations to human service programs to benefit low and moderate income people.

Oversees governmental contracts and grant offices.

Offers to build and deliver beds to children who do not have a bed. Makes and delivers beds as supplied and donations allow. Volunteer builders, donations accepted.

Raises funds through thrift shop sales and donates the proceeds to various Catasauqua community organizations.

Provides community grants to applicants from the community who wish to improve the quality of life for people living in the Twin Tiers region. Charitable funds and grants are awarded on an ongoing basis for a lasting delivery of service to meet an identified community need.

Offers grant making services to help sustain local and regional, non-profit organizations, whose initiatives help to address some of Northeastern and North Central Pennsylvania's most pressing health challenges. Provides grants generally ranging from $5,000 to $25,000. Considers grants for solution-based and evidence-based programs in health care, human services, health education and disease prevention.

Provides administration of human services grants for Blair County.

Offers a grant cycle that is held annually and open to non-profit organizations, schools, and government agencies to fund programs aimed at preventing and reducing drug abuse and crime in Blair County. The following Roundtables also work on several focus areas to improve Blair County: Community Revitalization, Early Childhood Education, Faith-based, Housing, K-12 Education, Law Enforcement, Marketing, Northern Blair, and Pharmacy.

Works collaboratively with key stakeholders throughout parts of Cumberland, Perry, Adams, and Franklin counties to help improve people's lives. Provides funding opportunities to local nonprofits to support projects that improve the health of individuals and communities by focusing on social determinants of health and health equity.

Provides children's, teen's and adult services, large print books, DVDs, photo copier, telephone/on-line reference service, Interlibrary loan, meeting facilities, computers and internet access, books on CD, newspapers, and etc. Please, ask for the Jan Virsack, President of the Friends of the Library for more information. There is a membership fee to join.

Provides funding and supports a world-wide network of organizations that care for people in need and sustain the Jewish community.

Provides aid for individuals, families, and communities impacted by LA County wildfires. All donations support for low-income individuals whose livelihood has been disrupted, people experiencing homelessness and those who provide services to support them, and address disruptions to community organizations and small businesses.

Works to strengthen and promote charitable giving in Schuylkill County and encourages philanthropy at all levels. Provides comprehensive donor services and responds to changing community needs and opportunities in areas such as art and culture, education, environment, health and human services, youth programs, and volunteer programs.

United Way of Berks County helps people in need, addresses the county’s critical issues and makes the community a better place for everyone. Their work is centered on raising and distributing funds to support a vital network of health and human services, as well as tackling the community’s key issues and working towards solutions in the areas of Education, Health, Financial Stability and Safety Net Services.

Provides funding for blood cancer research, education and patient services.