Nonprofit News

Easton police Officer Jeff Crosson was awarded Officer of the Year during a special event by the city's Kiwanis Club.

Lehigh Valley Transportation Study officials laid out the next steps to getting the process started for resuming passenger rail service in the Lehigh Valley — if that's what they choose to do.

The second annual Greenway Pride will be celebrated 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 18, at Southside Bethlehem’s Greenway between Taylor and Adams streets.

The Emmaus Memorial Triangle could get a major facelift. A veterans group seeks to build a new memorial complex there and rename it.

North Whitehall Township and kitten rescue Foxy’s Cradle have come to an agreement for how the nonprofit can operate. “It’s a relief,” owner Kandice Reinert said Monday.

After a lengthy battle with a local zoning office, neonatal kitten rescue Foxy's Cradle has found a new way to continue their mission to save young felines: a mobile kitten unit, which was unveiled at a Slatington fire rescue on Sunday, May 5.

The Wilson Area Communities That Care Coalition was honored for their community improvement efforts at the Love and Light Tour Honoree Recognition Ceremony in Philadelphia this week.

The city is still "a few months away" from distributing pandemic-relief money to nonprofits as it works to establish an application process, Mayor Matt Tuerk said in April.

An emergency response fund has been launched to provide immediate support for the families displaced by Tuesday's three-alarm fire in the 700 block of North Seventh Street in Allentown.

Cedarbrook Senior Care and Rehab states that much of its current staff is in the form of short-term contracts, but it is optimistic it can meet new federal staffing guidelines.

Easton City Council approved $1 million in grant applications for community organizations and city programs, though the potential for the CDBG program to disappear remains an ever-present threat.

The city of Allentown is set to get $1.9 million, while dozens of nonprofits — including food banks — and other groups will split $3.8 million from the trust's annual disbursement.

If Congress adopts a measure clawing back $1.1 billion allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Bethlehem community radio station WDIY would need to come up with $200,000 dollars in new funding. "It's money I don't have," the nonprofit's executive director said Tuesday.

The Keystone Media Awards recognize excellence in journalism and the news media. Lehigh Valley Public Media captured awards in digital news, radio broadcast and television production.

Alumni celebrated the PBS39 quiz show's 50-year run at the Iacocca Conference Center at Lehigh University on Friday. The celebration continued Saturday with a screening of a documentary at the Univest Public Media Center on the SteelStacks campus in Bethlehem.

The Neighborhood Center and Andre Reed Foundation are partnering to kick off the season with an event from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday at 344 N. 7th St.

Members of Adult Skills Quest, tutors, students, politicians and more came together at the Pomfret Club in Easton Thursday to celebrate the educational achievements of adults seeking continued education.

Speakers at the Juneteenth flag-raising ceremony at Allentown City Hall on Thursday emphasized the amount of work yet to be done in guaranteeing equality for all.

Two Allentown nonprofits petitioned the city to change its community-center definition, which they called an “unduly restrictive” and “ambiguous” regulation.

Capt. Matthew Griffin, a Bethlehem firefighter for more than 18 years, has been chosen to lead the department as its newest chief and emergency management coordinator. His first day will be July 4.

The center’s Board of Trustees said it will form a search committee this summer to begin the process of selecting Erickson’s successor, with the goal to announce a new CEO by spring 2026.

A public hearing is slated for 6 p.m. Wednesday, just before Allentown City Council considers changing the definition of a community center.