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September 18, 2024 
The PPL Foundation last month completed the first of three planned grant programs for 2024, awarding more than $200,000 in grants to 30 nonprofit organizations working to build stronger communities in eastern and central Pennsylvania.
The foundation’s next round of grants – Empowering Communities – is focused on enriching the vitality of the community through programs that support environmental stewardship and education, economic development and workforce development. Applications for Empowering Communities grants are being accepted through June 15. For information, visit www.pplcares.com.
In all, the PPL Foundation expects to award nearly $1 million in grants this year in Pennsylvania to support the foundation’s focus areas: education; diversity, equity and inclusion; and sustainable communities.
Funds from the first round of grants will be used to facilitate community conversations on diversity and inclusion, improve equity in access to higher education, and support innovation and entrepreneurship among underrepresented residents in local communities.
The recent Powering Equity grants, ranging from $2,500 to $17,000, and recipients included:
African American Museum of Bucks County, Langhorne; Allentown Art Museum; Allentown Symphony Association; Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Bethlehem; Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley, Bethlehem; Greater Valley Young Men’s Christian Association, Allentown; Lehigh University Summer Engineering Institute, Bethlehem; Lehigh Valley Inter-Regional Networking & Connecting Consortium, Bethlehem; Moravian University, Bethlehem; Northampton County Area Community College Foundation, Bethlehem; PA CASA, Bethlehem; YMCA of Bucks and Hunterdon Counties, Quakertown.
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