Greater Pike Community Foundation
helps you turn generosity into lasting
change for the place you love.
Greater Pike Community Foundation, with its slogan “For Good. Forever.” was created to enable individuals, families, and local businesses to maximize their charitable support through organized, targeted, long-term community philanthropy.
Greater Pike provides a permanent and personal way to give back to the region we love and have worked so hard to nurture and maintain.
Since our founding in 2012, people who care about Pike County have invested money with Greater Pike. We now care for over 50 individual funds that support a wide variety of local causes.
Collectively, these dollars create our community’s endowment; a pool of resources invested for long-term growth, providing ongoing dollars to create positive impact in Pike County now and forever.
A Community Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit philanthropic institution created by civic volunteers for the long-term benefit of a defined geographic area.
Greater Pike Community Foundation’s service area encompasses the Pike County, Pennsylvania region.
Community Foundations enable donors to pursue their charitable objectives while realizing the tax benefits allowed by law. Assets are donated to support charitable causes or community needs. The assets are invested, building a permanent community endowment, and the returns are used to award grants and scholarships, and support a wide range of humanitarian, educational, and cultural organizations within the foundation’s geographic area.
Greater Pike Community Foundation, with its slogan For Good. Forever. was created to enable individuals, families, and local businesses to maximize their charitable support through organized, targeted, long-term community philanthropy.
Greater Pike provides a permanent and personal way to give back to the region we love and have worked so hard to nurture and maintain.
Since our founding in 2012, people who care about Pike County have invested money with Greater Pike. We now care for over 50 individual funds that support a wide variety of local causes.
Collectively, these dollars create our community’s endowment; a pool of resources invested for long-term growth, providing ongoing dollars to create positive impact in Pike County now and forever.
A Community Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit philanthropic institution created by civic volunteers for the long-term benefit of a defined geographic area.
Greater Pike’s service area encompasses the Pike County, Pennsylvania region.
Community Foundations enable donors to pursue their charitable objectives while realizing the tax benefits allowed by law. Assets are donated to support charitable causes or community needs. The assets are invested, building a permanent community endowment, and the returns are used to award grants and scholarships, and to support a wide range of charitable organizations and projects within the foundation’s geographic area.
The Community Harvest Fund is a pass-thru fund that funnels donations to Pike County food pantries, providing financial support to ensure that no neighbor goes hungry.
Addresses urgent or important unanticipated funding needs on a timely basis, without a defined funding calendar. The Fund for Greater Pike in particular, but not exclusively, responds to needs arising from natural disasters and/or public health emergencies.
The Carol Witschel and Howard Breindel Family Fund supports the Pike County Public Library and organizations that help alleviate food insecurity in the Greater Pike area and elsewhere as recommended by the donor.
