The Scranton Area Community Foundation responds to community needs and opportunities with grants in such diverse fields as health, education, arts, environment, human services, and civic affairs. We are able to do so through the generosity of individuals, organizations, and corporations.
The Scranton Area Community Foundation manages more than 350 charitable funds. Explore all of our funds here.
Maya’s Mission supports individuals and organizations by providing access to mental health and supportive resources for marginalized populations. Very unfortunately and suddenly, Maya passed away in 2020 at the age of 13. Knowing the goals she had fo…
Established in November 2022, The Melissa Chermak Liput Memorial Fund was created to support individuals with a colon cancer diagnosis and who are experiencing financial hardship. Awardees of this Fund will be selected on an objective and nondiscrimina…
Established in May 2019 in memory of Mary H. Acker, this fund supports animal shelters and rescues.
…This fund was established in February 2019 by Lacawac Sanctuary in memory of Michael Jake Burkhardt, who was tragically killed in an automobile accident on January 25, 2016. Jake was an active young man who enjoyed hiking, campfires, listening to mu…
The Michelangelo Amico Memorial Scholarship Fund will provide scholarships to support graduating seniors from either Dunmore High School or Mid-Valley High School. A preference will be given to those students who plan to major in an art related program…
The Michelangelo Amico’s Run for Life 5k Walk/Run and Car Show Fund will support fundraising for suicide prevention awareness. Specifically, it will support the Michelangelo Amico Memorial Scholarship Fund to award scholarships to graduating seni…
The Mind Over Matter Support (MOMS) Fund was established in December 2022 with the charitable purpose to support the mental health of youth, along with the treatment and prevention of addiction and substance use disorder, particularly in youth and youn…
Minooka Subaru Fund was established in 2018 by Joseph Corbett. The fund supports charitable causes, activities, and organizations important to Joseph Corbett and Minooka Subaru.
…Mr. & Mrs. William J. Calpin, Jr., with their family and friends, established the Molly Fund in April 1994 to memorialize and celebrate the life of Molly Elizabeth Calpin. In 2017, the fund was updated to the Molly Calpin and Megan Calpin Hughes F…
An anonymous donor created this fund in December 2008 in honor of Monsignor Joseph Quinn. Grants from the fund support the work and mission of Lackawanna Pro Bono, Inc.
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