Empowerment XIV is a nonprofit that empowers women and girls and helps them avoid becoming victims, establish boundaries, and move with confidence.
Groups that wish to participate will submit a video dancing (and lip-syncing, if desired) to a song clip of their choice. People can then vote for their favorite dance-off video at $1 per vote
Menno Haven is excited to announce a $30,000 donation to COSTA Academy to be paid in increments over the next three years.
Colorful pencil boxes and speckled composition books spilled out of donation boxes, as Unuted Way volunteers collected school supplies last month.
The 33rd Annual Step ‘N Stride Walk and Breast Cancer Survivors Car Parade.is set for Oct. 15 at the Hagerstown Community College
The Foundation for Enhancing Communities (TFEC) announced $338,872 in grant funds have been awarded to 67 Greater Harrisburg and surrounding area nonprofit organizations through competitive grant
Rain, swollen streams didn’t keep avid fishermen (women and children) from trying their skills in hopes of catching some special trout last weekend.
Sharon Brosious the Cumberland Valley Breast Care Alliance founder and CEO is retiring. She has been with them for 26 years. She will be appointing
The Franklin County Commissioners have proclaimed March to be Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in Franklin County and are drawing attention to the unlimited potential possessed
United Way of Franklin County’s dance-off countdown is building excitement for this year’s United Way of Franklin County fundraiser.
Weaver is a dedicated volunteer at Women in Need of Franklin/Fulton, spending thousands of hours over the past 10 years helping the organization.
The 11/30 Network, Franklin County’s young professionals group, celebrates the holidays with the 7th Annual First Responders Appreciation Day
This year’s Mont Alto Plunge participants jump into the lake at Cowans Gap State Park or select the personal option and use a bucket.
The 3rd annual Festival of Trees marks the beginning of the holiday season almost as much as the annual pre-Thanksgiving community Christmas parades.
Wilson College volunteers aged 18 to 80 turned out to build a shed to complete a family’s new home in Franklin County this fall.
Chambersburg Evening Lions Club recently collected its 100,000th pair of used eyeglasses in support of the Lions Recycle for Sight Program.
Veterans are important to Waynesboro Community and Human Services, a social services agency who helped several dozen vets last year.
Orrstown Bank has generously committed $10,000 in Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) funds to support Foundation initiatives.
Habitat For Humanity and Wilson College have built a 6×8 garden shed on campus to be placed at the 50th house built by volunteers in Franklin County.
If you love crabs and CrabFeast, think about buying your tickets soon to make sure you have a spot at the table on August 28th.
The donation will be earmarked for emergency assistances, specifically lodging, for crisis situations such as fire or natural disasters.
Luminest Community Development has won the Greater Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce’s Chamber Property Improvement Award for the Parkview Corner project.
The 2nd Annual Martin Luther King Day of Service takes a virtual form in Franklin County this year, but the results will hopefully be far from virtual.
United Way of Franklin County (UWFC) is once again coordinating its annual Winter Food Drive to help restock local food pantries after the busy holiday
2020 is a year we’ll never forget. We’ve faced challenges we never expected; overcome odds stacked against us, learned things we couldn’t have imagined; banded
If Waynesboro Theatre 2020 was a movie, it could have had a title of “Rocky Road.” Like everyone and nearly everything, Waynesboro’s single-screen theatre at
During the past year, the students in Franklin County have struggled with disrupted education and stressful situations at school and at home.
. The Greater Chambersburg Chamber Foundation recently received $1,500 in matching donations to the Scoop Double Dip Challenge; thanks to the generous support of Floor
Recovery grants will soon be available to help local non-profits struggling to cope with fallout from the Coronavirus pandemic. Healthy Franklin County, a health improvement
Franklin County will get direct funding of over $156,000 to help local needs such as food and shelter shortages. The Federal Emergency Food and Shelter
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