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New Partnership in Somerset County

Effective February 16, 2015, Aspire Grant & Development LLC and the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies will launch a strategic partnership. Under the agreement, Michele R. Beener, President of Aspire Grant & Development LLC, will serve the Community Foundation as…

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Benefit the Arts Coalition with Concert Tickets

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street will make its Johnstown debut on February 15, 2015. The Community Foundation for the Alleghenies and the Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center have completed casting for their benefit presentation of Sweeney Todd in Concert at Pasquerilla…

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Spring 2015 Grant Applications

Our next grant application deadline is Friday, January 30, 2015. (Awards will be announced in mid-April.) Before you apply for grant funding in 2015, please note that we have changed our application process. Effective immediately, all grant applications must be…

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YPI Blog: The Greater Prospect Store

One great, new addition to Johnstown is the Greater Prospect Co-Op Store. This convenience store opened in the summer of 2014 at 110 William Penn Ave. Among its many products that are sold, it provides fresh produce from local community gardens,…

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Fund for the Future

This holiday season, consider the gift of philanthropy for your friends, employees, and loved ones with a contribution in their name to the Community Foundation's Fund for the Future. Our Fund for the Future is used by our Distribution Committee…

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More Than $530,000 in Awards to 84 Programs

The Community Foundation for the Alleghenies is proud to announce that recent grant awards from several of its funds have put more than a half million dollars into a broad array of area projects over the past few months. “Often…

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YMCA Receives $200,000 Grant

Community Foundation president Mike Kane presented representatives of the Greater Johnstown Community YMCA with a $200,000 check towards its Capital Expansion/Renovation Project. The check represents the combined grant awards from three Foundation funds: the Penelec Sustainable Energy Fund, the Community…

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YPI Blog: An Oasis in the Food Desert

More than 2.3 million people in the United States live in low-income, rural areas that are more than ten miles away from the nearest supermarket. These deprived areas are known as "food deserts," and Cambria, Somerset, and Bedford counties are…

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Tranquility Gardens Exhibit & Workshop

The Community Intervention Program (a partnership with the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies) will be hosting an exhibit featuring the Tranquility Gardens at the Bottle Works Ethnic Arts Center (411 Third Ave, Johnstown, PA 15906) November 12th through November 14th.…

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