The Foundation Board of Trustees for:
2023-2024
President: Bob Ashcraft
Vice-President: Todd Siegfried
Treasurer: Peg Harp
Secretary: Tom Harp
Elected Trustee: Young Chang
“The devoting of such funds as it may receive exclusively for educational, charitable, religious, literary and/or scientific purposes”
In those early years, our Foundation was involved in a variety of community projects, including the building of a cottage at Girl Scout “Camp Mosey Wood” in 1955, and the purchase of a mobile canteen for the Salvation Army in 1958.
Over the years, Kiwanis Club of Allentown members have given generously to our Foundation, through donations, bequests, and memorials. This has enabled us to provide grants totaling nearly $1 million to a variety of community service projects, and college scholarships to deserving students from William Allen, Allentown Central Catholic, and Salisbury High Schools.
The Foundation is comprised of all members in good standing of the Kiwanis Club of Allentown. It is governed by a Board of Trustees, which makes decisions on the expenditure of funds for grants and scholarships.
Interested in a
grant ?
We offer grants from our Foundation to non-profit organizations that serve children in the Lehigh Valley. We give preference to those who serve Allentown, PA. Our grant request period runs from July 1, 2024 to October 1, 2024. Grants are generally kept to $1,500.00 or less.
If you are interested in a grant, please download our Foundation Grant Application form. This application must be received by mail and postmarked no later than October 1, 2024. In addition, if you have received a grant from us before, you must complete a Grant Feedback Form. Please download the form here.
Applicants will be notified on or before December 1, 2024.
Our Foundation History
Since its incorporation in 1952, our Foundation has awarded over $1 million in grants and scholarships. In the 2021-2022 fiscal year, a total of $12,000 in grants were awarded to:
- Boys and Girls Club, Allentown
- Allentown Symphony Assoc.
- Community Action Committee
- Community Music School
- Lehigh Christian Academy
- Lehigh County Historical Society
- Lehigh Valley Children’s Centers
- Minsi Trails Boy Scouts of America
- New Bethany Ministries
- Pratyush Sinha Foundation
- Salvation Army, Allentown Corps
- SATORI
- St. Luke’s Visiting Nurses Association
- The Neighborhood Center