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CFA Awards First ECE Grants

In October, we were thrilled to announce $235,000 in grant funding to address a critical need for area children and families: access to high quality early childhood education. The grant awards, which will support teachers and providers at 50 local…

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Gallery: Bedford County Pink Ribbon Walk

The Bedford County Pink Ribbon Fund's third annual walk and 5k drew big crowds this year. Money raised through the event goes to benefit local people and families fighting breast cancer. CLICK HERE to read more.

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Building Strength: Johnstown’s Resilience Accelerator Workshop

Embracing Our Strengths Renowned landscape architect will present a public lecture: 'Rivers as Ecological and Economic Engines' Vision Together 2025 is teaming up with Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (Columbia GSAPP) and the Center for Resilient…

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Energy Audit Provider Program Launches

Energy audits are an important first step toward a goal of reducing kilowatt hours and improving operating costs for many existing buildings. The Met Ed/Penelec Sustainable Energy Fund is pleased to announce a new Energy Audit Provider Program to support…

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Walking Hand-in-Hand

Through partnership funds, Community Foundation for the Alleghenies supports volunteers with charitable projects and events. These funds rely on CFA to provide administrative support and accounting services so they can focus on their mission. Sometimes the Foundation can even help…

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Supporting Suicide Awareness and Prevention

We are honored to support grassroots efforts to prevent suicide in our region, de-stigmatize mental illness, and help prepare first responders. The following are suicide prevention and awareness projects that operate under the CFA umbrella: Cambria County Suicide Prevention Task…

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Growing for Good

Our 2019 annual report, "Growing with Purpose," is now live.  You can access a digital version on our About page. The annual report not only updates the community on our progress over the past year, but it also shows where…

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Promoting Reading, Supporting Literacy

Readers and writers from across the region will fill the streets of Uptown Somerset on Sept. 21 for the second annual Festival of Books in the Alleghenies. Visitors can mingle with more than 45 authors representing a wide range of…

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Therapeutic Gardening Project Kicks Off

This week, Cambria Care Center and St. Francis University introduced a program that has been in the works for months, and it's bringing university students and seniors together. St. Francis received a grant for the therapeutic gardening project from the…

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Longtime Bedford County Director Retires

For the past 14 years, Kay Reynolds has been an advocate for her community by promoting the work of CFA and leading the push to build the Foundation’s Bedford County Endowments. Now, though she has just retired from her post…

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