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Grant Application Process Review
The Centre County Community Foundation is engaging in a review of our granting process so we can improve our service to all of the organizations that request funding. In order to give our Grants Committee time for a thorough and effective review of our current process, we have decided to temporarily suspend granting for one quarter. We will not be accepting applications or making any grants for the first quarter of 2011. Our online applications will once again be available on March 1st, 2011 and will be due on April 15th, 2011. Applications submitted in that round will be voted on at the May 18th, 2011 Board of Directors meeting with funds for approved applications available within several weeks of the decision.
This will not affect the total amount available to grant for 2011; we will distribute the total funding that is available for 2011 over three quarters instead of the usual four. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this causes. We are striving to serve the community better and want to be sure we take the appropriate time to consider the best options to improve our granting process.
Dream of PA 2-1-1 system closing in on reality
For years the United Way of Pennsylvania dreamed of a statewide toll-free information and referral telephone network similar to systems used in almost every other state in the country. To transform the dream into reality required political and economic paths to success.
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Annual awards dinner celebrates community
A good job and ready access to housing are not enough to keep someone in a town they don't like.
Likewise, many people are willing to move to their dream city, even if that means months of job hunting and finding roommates on Craigslist. …
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We are pleased to announce that the Centre County Community Foundation was the recipient of a $225,000 Knight Foundation Information Challenge Grant as part of a partnership that will bring 211 Information Referral number to 16 counties in central Pennsylvania. For more information on the Central PA 211 project, please follow this link to the story in the Centre Daily Times:
http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/story/1783413.html
or for general information on the service in PA, check the PA211 website:
Additional information on the Knight Foundation Information Challenge grant is available on the following website:
http://www.informationneeds.org/community-information-challenge/winners/second
In 2006 we worked with the Knight Foundation on the Focus Centre County project to study primary issues in our community. Below are the final reports from that study.
