In May the Allentown Rotary Club and the Allentown Rotary Club Foundation established a $50,000 fund to distribute to local nonprofit organizations on the front lines dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. The Allentown Rotary Club Emergency Aid Fund's goal is to provide financial assistance to nonprofits supplying food, shelter, medical/emergency care and educational services to members of the Allentown community.
Applications for the second round of funding were reviewed the week of June 21st and $22,500 was awarded to the following organizations to aid them in their efforts to support those in the city of Allentown most severely by the Covid pandemic.
1. Salvation Army, Allentown - $5,000 to provide meals to the community,
2. Community Action Committee of the LV - $5,000 for the Sixth Street Shelter efforts
3. Community Bike Works - $2,500 to provide meals to school age children
4. Lily’s Hope Foundation - $1,000 to help to parents of premature babies
5. Allentown Symphony Association - $2,000 for its El Sistema music instruction for students
6. Cedar Crest College - $1,000 for its Closing the Gap Fund
7. Da Vinci Science Center - $1,000 for its STEAM educational kits for students
8. The Fund to Benefit Children and Youth - $2,500 for its mission to assist children
9. Turning Point of the Lehigh Valley, Inc. - $3,000 for its mission of providing shelter to victims of abuse
10. YWCA - $2,000 for its Perfect Fit for Working Women program
More details on how each non-profit is using its funding may be provided in future issues of the SMILE. Congratulations to
all of these fine organizations for their continuing efforts to serve the most needy in the Allentown community,
In the first round of funding, the Rotary Club’s Emergency Aid Fund awarded grants of $5,000 each to the Allentown Rescue Mission, Casa Guadalupe, Meals on Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley, and the Ripple Community, Inc. The sum of $2,500 was also awarded to Phoebe Home in memory of the Reverend Dr. Grant Harrity and in honor of Richard M. Snyder, both of whom were long-time active members of the Allentown Rotary Club.
