Allentown, Pa., December 15, 2023—The Upper Bucks Community Fund of the Lehigh Valley Community Foundation issued $37,450 in grants to fourteen area nonprofit organizations. The Fund consists primarily of two area-of-interest funds. The Richard E. Gasser Fund and Erwin J. and Gertrude K. Neusch Fund provide annual grants to organizations and programs primarily serving the Palisades, Pennridge and Quakertown School Districts in the Upper Bucks area.
These grants, ranging from $1,000 to $5,500, were made at the recommendation of the advisory committee for the Upper Bucks Community Fund, a geographic affiliate of the Lehigh Valley Community Foundation. “The Upper Bucks Community Fund Advisory Group carefully considered each application in accordance with the fund’s priorities,” said Megan Briggs, Vice President of Community Investments at the Lehigh Valley Community Foundation. “After a very thorough discussion about all the excellent applications, the Advisory Group worked together to recommend the final grant awards. Each member contributed their own depth of knowledge about the Upper Bucks region again this year to award projects and programs that will increase the quality of life for Upper Bucks residents.”
The following organizations received grants for programs from the fund’s 2023-24 grant cycle. The funded programs are listed as well.
Bucks County Covered Bridge Society
Knechts Bridge Project
Durham Historical Society
Mill race refurbishments for the Historic Durham Mill
Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania
Girl Scouts STEM Programming – Upper Bucks
Heritage Conservancy
Critical Improvements to the Fuller-Pursell Preserve
Lenape Chamber Ensemble
Community Outreach for awareness of classical chamber music in Upper Bucks
National Inventors Hall of Fame, Inc.
Camp Invention STEAM
Palisades Community Foundation
The Red Covered Bridge Project
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival
PSF’s WillPower Tour, new Shakespeare for Kids community tour
Quakertown Alive!
Mural for the Sine’s 5 & 10 Historical building
Quakertown Band
Veterans Ball Musical Performance
Quakertown Music Promoters Organization (QMPO)
2024 Spring Musical production
Riegelsville Public Library
Art for Kids in the Summer
The “Drop” at the Quakertown Community Center
Art at the Drop
YMCA of Bucks County
Quakertown Branch After School Arts Program
About the Upper Buck Community Fund of the Lehigh Valley Community Foundation
The Upper Bucks Community Fund of the Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, a geographic affiliate of Lehigh Valley Community Foundation, consists primarily of two area-of-interest funds. The Richard E. Gasser Fund and Erwin J. and Gertrude K. Neusch Fund are for organizations and programs primarily serving the Palisades, Pennridge and Quakertown School Districts in the Upper Bucks area. Recently added to Upper Bucks umbrella, The Bucks County Free Library Endowment Fund is an agency fund that benefits the seven-branch county library system with locations in Bensalem, Doylestown, Langhorne, Levittown, Perkasie, Quakertown, and Yardley-Makefield.
Learn more about the Upper Bucks Community Fund on the Lehigh Valley Community Foundation website.