The Lancaster Cares COVID-19 Response Fund has already generated more than $800,000 that will directly support neighbors with immediate needs. Launched jointly by the Lancaster County Community Foundation and United Way of Lancaster County, the fund will work through organizations that can turn donated dollars directly into help and provide food, housing and emerging critical needs for Lancaster residents.
Dollars from Lancaster Cares are already at work through Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and LancCo MyHome. Each organization recently received an $80,000 grant to expand its capacity to support growing demands for food security and shelter needs.
Lancaster Cares is making an initial investment from the fund of $80,000 each to the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and LancCo MyHome.
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank is actively partnering with 38 agencies and collaborating with Hunger Free Lancaster County to ensure that local families in the community are being served.
Lancaster County Homeless Coalition is extending winter shelters in Elizabethtown, Columbia, and Lancaster city and providing quarantine locations for individuals in shelter as they become symptomatic and await COVID-19 testing.
Major gifts from Rodgers & Associates, Truist Cares Fund, High Foundation, PPL Foundation, Altria, Arconic Foundation, Armstrong Flooring and more than 500 individuals and businesses joined the $250,000 lead gift from the foundation.
For more information or to donate, readers may visit http://www.lancocares.org.
Leave a Review