2025 Empowering Communities Grant Recipients

The PPL Foundation awarded Empowering Communities Grants to more than 60 nonprofit organizations working to build stronger communities in eastern and central Pennsylvania. 

Grant recipients are:  

  • Allentown School District Foundation 
  • American Red Cross (various Pennsylvania chapters)  
  • Appalachian Audubon Society, Camp Hill  
  • Bloomsburg Area YMCA  
  • CAN DO Community Foundation, Hazleton  
  • Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO), Harrisburg 
  • Central Susquehanna Opportunities, Shamokin  
  • Clinton County Economic Partnership Foundation, Lock Haven  
  • Diakon Child, Family & Community Ministries, Mechanicsburg 
  • Elizabethtown Community Housing & Outreach Services, Elizabethtown  
  • Film Arts Culture & Tourism Specialist (FACTS), Harrisburg  
  • Friends of Camp Louise Shickshinny, Shavertown 
  • Greater Hazleton Area Civic Partnership, Hazleton 
  • Greater Philadelphia YMCA, Conshohocken 
  • Greater Wilkes-Barre Growth Partnership 
  • Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity  
  • Lancaster City Alliance  
  • Lancaster County Food Hub 
  • Lancaster County Workforce Investment Board 
  • Latino Hispanic American Community Center, Harrisburg 
  • LEAF Project, Landisburg 
  • Lehigh Valley Zoo, Schnecksville 
  • Macungie Ambulance Corps 
  • Marywood University , Scranton 
  • Meals On Wheels of the Greater Lehigh Valley 
  • Midwest Food Bank, Middletown 
  • Milagro House, Lancaster 
  • Mount Carmel Area Community Center 
  • New Hope Ministries, Dillsburg 
  • Nicholas Wolff Foundation, Millville 
  • Nonprofit & Community Assistance Center, Pittston  
  • North Branch Land Trust, Dallas  
  • Northeast PA Manufacturers & Employers Council, Pottsville  
  • Partnership for Career Development, Enola  
  • Penn State Schuylkill, Schuylkill Haven 
  • Penn’s Northeast, Pittston  
  • Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy, Schwenksville  
  • Pocono Environmental Education Center, Dingmans Ferry 
  • Pocono Services for Families and Children, East Stroudsburg 
  • Raven Ridge Wildlife Center, Washington Borough 
  • Rising Tide Community Loan Fund, Bethlehem 
  • Riverfront Parks Committee, Wilkes Barre 
  • Rodale Institute, Kutztown  
  • Schuylkill Chamber Foundation, Pottsville 
  • SEEDS of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Honesdale 
  • Shamokin Area Business for Economic Revitalization, Coal Township 
  • Susquehanna Health Foundation, Williamsport 
  • The Edible Classroom, Columbia 
  • The Institute, Wilkes-Barre 
  • The Lancaster Science Center 
  • The Susquehanna Greenway Partnership, Lewisburg  
  • Trust for Public Land, Scranton  
  • Upper Delaware Preservation Coalition, Lackawaxen 
  • Valley Youth House Committee, Bethlehem  
  • Weis Center for the Performing Arts, Lewisburg 
  • Wildlife Leadership Academy, Lock Haven 
  • Youth Infusion, East Stroudsburg 

Grant Recipient Spotlight

Find out more about the organizations that have received a Sustaining Grant from the PPL Foundation.