The York County Community Foundation (YCCF) awarded $217,751 to community nonprofits from its Fund for York County, Children’s Program Fund, and the White Rose Foundation Fund during its most recent grant cycle. Eleven organizations received grants, ranging from $4,500 to $140,000.
YCCF committed to continuing support for Communities in Schools in the York City School District with a $140,000 grant over two additional years. The grant will support in-school coordinators to work with students in need.
“Communities in Schools (CIS) coordinators have improved the outcomes for York City students,” says Jane Conover, YCCF President and CEO. “Eighty-three percent of the students they work with are doing better academically, seventy-four percent have better attendance and sixty-eight percent are demonstrating fewer behavior issues. High-impact initiatives like this need time to develop and be fully implemented – it’s important for us to stay the course, and we’re proud to see such strong outcomes in our fourth year of funding.”
The Fund for York County is the foundation’s fund for high-impact initiatives that support quality education, workforce development and revitalizing downtowns and neighborhoods. It is comprised of nearly 60 funds designated to meet the community’s most pressing needs.
Fund for York County Grants:
- York College of Pennsylvania (YCP): $4,500 for YCP Hacks 2017, a 36-hour hackathon where students come together for a weekend dedicated to developing creative solutions to local challenges.
- CASA: $9,965 for a Bilingual Workforce and Economic Empowerment Program, to remove barriers that Latino York County residents face to obtaining family-sustaining employment.
- South Mountain Partnership/Appalachian Trail Conservancy: $5,000 for a feasibility study for the South Mountain Trolley Greenway Rail-Trail that would connect Dillsburg to Mechanicsburg.
- YMCA of York and York County: $7,400 for a feasibility study to implement an aquaponics program to provide a STEM curriculum option for youth, and help fill the skills shortage in the food and agriculture industry in Pennsylvania.
- Leg Up Farm: $8,360 to use music interventions to support speech and occupational gains in special needs students.
- Susquehanna SCORE: $8,000 for New Business Hot List to encourage minority entrepreneurs and provide business training.
- MANTEC: $10,000 for the “What’s So Cool About Manufacturing?” Student Video Contest to raise awareness among students and parents about the engaging career paths and opportunities available in today’s advanced manufacturing sector.
- Communities in Schools: $140,000 to support the CIS service coordinators in the York City School District.
Children’s Program Fund Grants:
- York Fresh Food Farms: $9,526 for Get York Hands Dirty Program, that connects children to the environment, their community and the role of agriculture in their lives through its urban farm.
- Children’s Home of York: $10,000 for the BRIDGES™ program, a Psychiatric Partial Hospitalization Program providing stabilization and treatment for children and adolescents who are experiencing psychiatric symptoms and emotional disturbance.
White Rose Foundation Fund Grants:
- Steam Into History, Inc.: $5,000 to for the Steam Into Summer Program, a fun-filled and educational day on the railroad for kids in kindergarten and up from York County Libraries’ Summer Reading Program.
The Following Funds Make Up the Fund for York County:
- Anstine Family Fund for York County
- Barbara F. Appell Fund for York County
- Louis J. and Josephine D. Appell Fund for York County
- Edith Allen Barber Fund
- Marie G. Baumeister Fund
- Former Judge Albert G. Blakey III Memorial Fund for York County
- The Bon-Ton Stores Foundation Fund
- Ralph and Charlotte Brooks Fund
- Alice Marie and Michael Boustead Fund for York County
- Clair S. and Mary S. Buchart Fund for York County
- Lester L. Buchart Fund
- Chairmen Emeriti Fund for York County
- Jane Conover and Steven Izzo Fund for York County
- Linda and Dave Davidson Fund for York County
- Louise S. Deane Fund
- Philip B. Deane Fund
- Dominick DelliCarpini Fund for York County
- Marsha Everton & Jack Stover Fund for York County
- Mary Lou Frick Fund for York County
- Charles and Adaline Frysinger Fund
- Rodger K. Furse Fund
- Bernard and Doris Gordon Fund for York County
- Michael L. and Catherine A. Gleim Fund for York County
- M. S. Grumbacher Foundation Fund
- Bill and Reenie Hartman Fund for York County
- Hodges Family Fund
- Dolores E. and Ernest O. Horn, Jr. Fund
- Donna B. Jones Fund for York County
- Kerlin Family Fund for York County
- Robert and Anne Kinsley Fund
- Loren and Faye Kroh Fund for York County
- Drs. George and Lois Kushner Fund
- Lori and Michael Mitrick Family Fund for York County
- Frank and Susanne Motter Fund
- Raymond L. Ness Fund for York County
- Michael and Eloise Newsome Fund for York County
- Tom and Joan Norris Fund for York County
- Ray Rife Charitable Fund
- Paul and Lori Rudy Family Fund for York County
- Michael and Judy Rutter Fund
- Charles and Louise Sawmiller Fund
- George and Josephine Schmidt Fund for York County
- Sue C. and John C. Schmidt Fund
- Ralph Serpe and Bryan Tate Fund for York County
- Phil and Kay Sheridan Fund for York County
- Rick and Carol Smith Community Endowment Fund
- Charles E. & Berdella Emig Snyder Memorial Fund
- Carolyn Eyster Steinhauser Fund for York County
- Eugene C. Struckhoff Fund
- Donald A. and Gretchen Wolf Swartz Fund for York County
- Harriet R. Venus Fund for York County
- Mary Ellen Venus Fund for York County
- Joseph G. and Susan G. Wagman Fund for York County
- Fred A. and Naomi K. Werner Fund
- Roland M. and Lillian R. Whitmire Fund for York County
- Roy and Margaret Williams Fund for York County
- Wolf Foundation Fund
- Thomas and Frances Wolf Fund for York County
- William T. and Cornelia W. Wolf Fund for York County
- John and Kathryn Zimmerman Fund for York County
The Following Funds Make Up the Children’s Program Fund:
- W. L. Cook and Jeannette B. Cook Fund
- Flo A. Rider Children’s Fund
- G. Stuart and Margaret A. Rohler Fund
- James Sadler & Catherine Halsted Fund
- May D. MacBride Fund
- National Leasing Company Fund
- Shearer Industrial Supply Company Fund
- York Penn Machinery Company Fund
- Wolf Foundation Fund – Standing Advice
- Philip A. and Elizabeth J. Hoover Fund
