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Grantee FAQs

Angie Berzonski, our Associate Director, manages grantmaking programs for CFA. Over the past month, that’s involved a lot of work focused around helping nonprofits make it through the effects of the pandemic and also helping them address urgent community needs.…

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COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund Grants Awarded

Grants from the COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund were distributed on a rolling basis as CFA worked to address the immediate, short-term, and long-term needs that arose from the pandemic. The fund was launched with $100,000 from CFA and $100,000 from…

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Running for a Reason

Two local clubs for avid runners—the Johnstown Running Club and White Chocolate Running—are teaming up to raise money for the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies' new emergency fund. Runners who are participating in White Chocolate’s virtual 5K, available through both…

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CFA Launches COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund

We will get through this together. We are here for you. Over the past several weeks, we've been closely monitoring the effects of this international pandemic and doing all we can to consider how it may affect our friends and…

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How Nonprofits Can Apply for Emergency Funding

UPDATE: We are not currently accepting applications for the COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund (to view funding opportunities, visit cfalleghenies.org/grants) To move resources as quickly as possible to where they are most needed, CFA is working closely and collaboratively with a group local foundations…

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Honoring Two Dedicated Educators

New Scholarships Honor Longtime Cresson Joint/Penn Cambria Teachers In the 1960s, Ms. Catherine Iapalucci and Mr. Paul Link were busy teaching teenagers to become efficient, effective business people through the Cresson Joint High School’s business education program. The program was…

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Helpful Information for Local Businesses

Resources and Information for Local Small Businesses The PA Department of Community and Economic Development has made $61 million available to Pennsylvania businesses through the Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA) COVID-19 Working Capital Access (CWCA) Program. The CWCA program targets…

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A Community Call to Action

Local Nonprofit Leaders Partner to Form COVID-19 Response We have proven before that we are a resilient community, and we will get through this together. A team of four local nonprofit foundations committed to supporting the community are working together…

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A Message to Grantees

Dear Grantees and Grant Applicants, As we all work to understand and mitigate the emerging financial, health, and other needs our community is facing as part of this global pandemic, we understand that many of you may have questions and…

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PA Business Input Needed

UPDATE: Gov. Wolf has requested that the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) implement an SBA disaster declaration to provide assistance in the form of SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans for businesses and eligible non-profits in all 67 counties in Pennsylvania.…

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