The grant wish list is a simple listing of any granting needs from area nonprofits that are served by the Community Foundation. Submissions to be included are accepted at any time and will be added to the list as we receive them. This list can be especially helpful for our donor advisors so that they can see what immediate needs there are in our community that align with their interests. Not only is this list available to the public here on our website, but we also directly share it with our donor advisors and with local media. Our goal is to help as many nonprofits secure the funding that they need to meet their mission and goals.
Aiden Rupp Memorial Fund (RGS YMCA)
Requesting: Any Amount
To provide the transportation for the students to the YMCA for swimming lessons. The district is helping with the cost for the first year and we wish to have help with transportation moving forward. We would like to continue this year over year, so any assistance that can be considered would be greatly appreciated.
Wish updated 10/08/2024
Wish expires: 04/08/2025
Apollo Ridge School District
Project 1:
Requesting: $8,541
Emotional Support Classroom Supplies--expansion of our program as we continue to see an increase number of identification and behaviors in this regard. We are planning to expand to a second room in our elementary school with the intent to move to a full-time program from a part-time program. Students in need of full-time support are often placed in agencies outside of the district, and very few programs are actually available. This expansion will allow many of our students to remain in their home school and receive the services and support needed.
Project 2:
Requesting: $17,000
Art Program Supplies--The district is seeking to expand the art program offerings to match student interest and abilities, as well as seek ways to continue displaying student art for their peers and the school community. Seeking to develop a ceramics room at a cost of $15K that will include two pottery wheels, storage cabinets, work tables, clay wedging tables, and trim tools. Also seeking $2,000 for the purchase of portable display walls for use for art shows, display of work during events, board meetings, etc. Current display walls are old and heavy making them cumbersome and not easy to setup in a variety of areas.
Wish Updated: 10/08/2024
Wish Expires: 04/08/2025
Apollo Volunteer Fire Department Hose Company #2
Requesting: $9,400
Project #1:
2010’ sections of 3” diameter hard suction fire hose and strainer for a flood pump that is in our possession. ($250 / 10’ section – Total: $500)
Project #2:
3 adaptors for a negative pressure ventilation fan. This would provide a necessary adaptor, equipping all 3 of our engines. ($30 / Adaptor – Total: $90)
Project #3:
We are in need of updating our hot water heating system in our social hall. Age, wear, and tear has deteriorated and has shown signs of damage to our present system that we presently possess.
Wish updated 10/22/2024
Wish expires: 04/22/2025
ARC Manor
Requesting: $2,000
To support the health and well-being of our employees, we are planning to implement an Employee Wellness Program. This program will promote health, nutrition, activity and productivity of our staff. Some of this new program's initiatives may include: lunch and learn topics facilitated by our nurse navigator, activity challenges, journaling activities, weekly emails including tips on nutrition, motivational messages, recipes, etc., and last but not least: a weekly yoga practice. We are requesting funds of $2,000 to pilot 4 months of yoga practice for the staff.
Wish updated 10/8/2024
Wish Expires 04/08/2025
ARIN IU28-School & Community Services
Requesting: Any amount
ELECT Program
Provides parent education, child development and academic supports to teen parents. Items and funds to support needs:
- Gas Cards
- Baby/Toddler Books
- Diapers
- Support to go to work and attend events
Amount requested: Any amount
Family Focus Program
Provides parent education, early childhood education, group activities and resources to families. Support to attend events:
- Paper Products
- Diapers
- Laundry Products
- Children’s Books
- Cleaning Supplies
- Hygiene Products
- Art Supplies
- Gas Cards
Amount requested: Any amount
Adult Education Program
Supports learners to earn their High School Diploma’s, academics, careers, and ESL classes. Needs:
- Gas Cards
- Hygiene Products
- School Supplies
- Books for reading (novels)
- Support to attend class
Amount requested: Any amount
Education for Children & Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Supports students and their families to provide the academic needs as well as personal needs to be productive. Need:
- · Gas Cards
- · School Supplies
- · Support to attend school and go to work
- · Laundry Products
- · Hygiene Products
wish updated 08/15/2024
Expires: 01/15/2025
Armstrong Center for Community Learning
Project 1:
Requesting: $6,500
This request will be used to purchase a basic license from FOUNTANT Technologies to manage the ACCL's annual post-secondary scholarship applications. This will allow the ACCL to manage its current scholarship programs and offer additional scholarships in the future.
Project 2:
Requesting $1,731.66
Plan and implement an educational Earth Day Event at the Outdoor Discovery Center in the Spring of 2025. This event will expose attendees to a variety of environmental and nature-oriented topics in a fun and engaging way.
wish updated 10/08/2024
wish expires 4/8/2025
Armstrong County Arts Council
Requesting: $4,000
The Armstrong County Arts Council, Armstrong Trails, and Shiftworks Community + Public Arts are partnering to create a dynamic public art plan for the Armstrong Trail in Armstrong County, PA. This initiative aims to enrich the trail experience by integrating site-specific artworks that reflect the region's history, culture, and natural beauty. The collaboration will engage local artists and community members, enhancing the trail's appeal and fostering a deeper connection to the environment through creative expression. This funding request will support the first phase of plan development.
Wish Updated: 10/08/2024
Wish expires: 04/08/2025
Armstrong County Libraries
Requesting: $6,300
The Armstrong County Libraries are working together to offer a new digital platform for checking out hoping to offer Armstrong County library patrons this new digital platform, Hoopla. This digital app provides to all library patrons the ability to borrow audiobooks, ebooks, comics, movies, TV, magazines, or music everywhere, whether it is their computer, phone, TV or even their car. With over 1,755,000 titles on demand, and no holds, library patrons will raise their reading, listening, and viewing experiences to a new level.
As each of the six libraries within Armstrong County is independent and has different budgetary constraints, funding toward this service will allow equal access across the county to any patron with an active library card, no matter which library they are a patron.
Wish updated 9/10/2024
Wish Expires 3/31/2025
Armstrong River Hawks High School Rifle Team
Project #1:
Requesting: $5,000
Simply put, high school rifle teams are a great way for students to learn marksmanship and how to handle guns properly and safely. High school rifle teams are a lesser-known opportunity that allow students to learn the art of focusing all their mental power on the target in front of them while also learning how to operate guns in a safe and controlled environment. In our program we teach Safety, Mental Control, and Discipline.
The Armstrong River Hawks High School Rifle Team is in their seventh competitive season. As such, we have been utilizing the same equipment for seven years. Precision rifle shooting equipment does not last indefinitely. So, we are in need of some new precision rifle shooting equipment to provide our student athletes with. By incorporating this new precision shooting equipment our student athletes can fire better match scores, build more stable shooting positions, and have a better overall experience while at practice. Some of the precision shooting equipment we are requesting includes: Shooting Jackets, Sweaters, Spotting scopes, Scope/Ammo Stands, Slings and Gloves.
Project #2:
Requesting: $5,000
Ammo! As a precision shooting high school rifle team we use match grade .22 caliber ammunition in our precision Olympic grade rifles. In an average competitive high school rifle season, we will shoot through seven cases of this ammunition. One case of match grade ammo right now, is roughly $750. This item is what we spend the most money on by far, any support you could give us is greatly appreciated!
Project #3:
Requesting: $7,000
We are always looking to improve the Olympic grade precision rifles that we compete with. A brand-new Olympic grade precision rifle will run anywhere from $1,500 to $10,000. There are many different variations but the one we are currently looking at is called the Walther KK500 Blacktec. The KK500 Blacktec is designed to be lighter and more compact with smaller stature athletes in mind. These are about $3,500 each, and ideally, we would like to purchase two of them. More detailed specifications upon request.
wish updated 10/21/2024
wish expires: 4/21/2025
Armstrong School District Foundation
Requesting: $25,000
We are requesting $25,000 to be put towards the purchase of a STARLAB planetarium, a 4K projector, curricular software, a computer, and training. The project will enable us to deliver an immersive learning experience for the students of Armstrong School District and build partnerships with local community organizations. The STARLAB programming supports the PA STEELS (science standards) and provides a venue for students to create and share their own projects. More information about STARLAB can be found on their website starlab.com. For more information on the planned usage of STARLAB, contact Whitney Petrosky at wpetrosky@asd.k12.pa.us.
Wish updated: 10/10/2024
Wish expires: 04/10/2025
Books in Homes USA Inc.
Requesting: $6,000
We wish to bring the joy of reading to two schools in Armstrong County through a free book giveaway program. This initiative aims to provide each student with the opportunity to choose and own two books, fostering a love of reading and supporting literacy development. With your support, our nonprofit will facilitate this program, partnering with local schools to ensure that every child receives books that inspire and educate. By granting this wish, you’ll help us ignite a passion for reading in the hearts of students across Armstrong County. Partner schools will be selected upon the wish's approval to best serve the needs of the community.
Wish updated 08/01/2024
Wish expires: 2/01/2025
Brady's Bend Township
Requesting: $1,500
We are requesting funds from the foundation to build a Chimney Swift Tower foundation. We have partnered with the PA Game Commission and they will provide the newly built tower and we are to fund the foundation work along with signage.
Wish updated 10/08/2024
Wish expires 4/08/2025
Connections of Armstrong County
Requesting: Any amount
Amount Requesting: anything up to $2 million
We are working on a creating a village of Pallet Shelters (palletshelter.com) in our area to be temporary housing for those in need. We need almost $2 million to get started for year one. There is no homeless shelter in our county. This would be a place for homeless people, those waiting for permanent housing, anyone having emergency situations, really anyone who has nowhere to go.
Amount Requesting: $6,000
We recently had to start to paying the utilities for our building (they had been generously donated for the first year and a half). $6,000 would cover a year of utilities and we wouldn’t have to take money away from the things we do to help the community.
wish updated 10/10/2024
expires: 04/10/2025
Cowansville American Legion Post 325, 18 and under Air Rifle Team
Project #1:
Requesting: $5,000
With starting a new 3 position air rifle team the need for specialized equipment has arisen. This equipment will help our 18 and under air rifle team achieve higher scores by providing stability while shooting in different positions and by enabling easier self-spotting and loading.
Some of the 3 Position Shooting Equipment we are requesting includes: Shooting Pants, Jackets, Sweaters, Boots, Scope/Ammo Stands, Slings and Gloves.
Project #2:
Requesting: $7,000
We will also need a few air rifles to start on this path to competition. These Olympic grade air rifles contain a cylinder of compressed air that is used to propel a 4.5 millimeter air rifle pellet 10 meters down range to a target with a 10 ring, or bullseye, the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We also have two divisions in this sport, Sporter and Precision, which mainly refers to the type of rifle being used. We would like to compete in both divisions. One Olympic grade precision air rifle costs around $5,000 and a sporter air rifle runs about $650. Additional technical specifications provided upon request.
Project #3:
Requesting: $4,000
This item is for one electronic competition air rifle target. By incorporating our training regimen with an electronic target, we can prepare for realistic challenges that our 18 and under air rifle team will face in competition. Currently we are utilizing paper targets only, while paper provides valuable training, it is limited in capacity and adaptability. Again, technical specs upon request.
Wish Updated: 10/21/2024
Wish Expires: 04/01/2025
Experience Armstrong
Requesting: $1,718.45
Requesting a grant match sum that will be used to print 5,000 middle Allegheny water trail maps which will be available for the public. This will increase knowledge of the water trail, water safety, river conservation lock use, and hopefully promote outdoor recreation and tourism within Armstrong County.
Wish Updated: 11/18/2024
Wish Expires: 5/18/2025
Project #1
Requesting: $5,000
Folds of Honor is a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization with the mission of providing educational scholarships to the spouses and children of America's service-members and first responders who were fallen or disabled during active duty. These scholarships support private educational tuition and tutoring for children in grades K-12, as well as higher education tuition assistance for families in Western, PA. Your $5,000.00 grant would provide one scholarship for a deserving and qualified applicant in Armstrong County.
Wish updated 07/01/2024
Wish expires 01/01/2025
Project #2
Requesting: $10,000
We offer two scholarships. Higher Education and Children's Fund. Higher education are for those enrolled in a college, a university or a trade school resulting in a certification or a degree. Scholarships can be used for tuition, fees, required textbooks, required uniforms and on-campus housing and meal plans. Children's fund are for those in grades K-12. Scholarships can be used for private school tuition, tutoring, required textbooks and uniforms.
Wish Updated: 10/08/2024
Wish expires: 4/8/2025
Fort Armstrong Folk Festival
Requesting: $1,495
The Fort Armstrong Folk Festival strives to provide free and educational entertainment during our 4 day Festival each year.
One component of that is a colonial petting zoo. Animals are available for children of all ages to interact with and learn from. The family who provides the petting zoo educates visitors on animal care, types of animals, and their role in family life in the colonial era of history. They conduct a sheep shearing each year also with explanation of how the wool is processed and utilized historically and presently.
We are committed to providing this experience for our community for the 2025 Festival. This grant would ensure this tradition continues.
Wish updated: 10/10/2024
Wish expires: 04/10/2025
Foundation for Christian Counseling
Requesting: $5,000
Foundation for Christian Counseling (FFCC) provides mental health and/or addiction counseling grants to economically disadvantaged people in Armstrong County, those who cannot afford needed treatment otherwise. Without financial support, many individuals will remain under-treated or will forego treatment altogether. FFCC grants help subsidize treatment for these individuals who are seeking care for all types of mental health and substance abuse issues.
wish updated 07/09/2024
Wish expires: 12/09/2024
Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania
Requesting: $2,500
The Girl Scout Leadership Experience (GSLE), the foundation of the Girl Scout program, features a variety of fun, challenging, and experiential activities that empower girls as they develop five attitudes, skills, and behaviors essential to effective leadership: Strong Sense of Self, Positive Values, Challenge Seeking, Healthy
Relationships, and Community Problem Solving.
The goal of the GSLE is to bring about Five Positive Outcomes: Sense of self, Positive values, Challenge
seeking, Healthy relationships and Community problem solving. Specific objectives for the GSLE in Armstrong County are: -Enroll 170-200 girls in Girl Scouts in Armstrong County. -Provide financial assistance (25%- 30% of enrolled girls) to ensure all girls, regardless of their financial situation can be in Girl Scouts.
Wish Updated: 10/8/2024
Wish Expires: 4/8/2025
Grace Christian School
Requesting: $4,000
Our project includes replacement of the 10+ year old printer in the elementary school and the purchase of a printer for the high school. Also, the purchase of a school laminator which will enable teachers to increase the usability of teaching materials.
Wish Updated: 10/08/2024
Wish Expires: 04/08/2025
Haiti H2O: Hope to Opportunity
Project 1:
Amount Requesting: $1,250
Haiti H2O partners with Haitian doctors and nurses and leaders in three remote villages to host quarterly medical clinics where there are no doctors. Each 1-day clinic sees an average of one hundred patients from the community and surrounding areas. Many people walk miles to attend our clinics. Regular mobile clinics can better treat long-term diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure which are common in Haiti. Left untreated, these conditions often lead to heart attack or stroke. $1,250 provides the medications prescribed during each of Haiti H2O’s mobile medical clinics.
Wish Updated: 07/03/20/24
Wish Expires: 12/31/2024
Project 2:
Amount Requesting: $475
Haiti H2O partners with Haitian doctors and nurses and leaders in three remote villages to host quarterly medical clinics where there are no doctors. The medical team sees an average of one hundred patients at each clinic. $475 will pay 1 doctor and 3 nurses for their time during one quarterly medical clinic.
Wish Updated: 07/03/20/24
Wish Expires: 12/31/2024
Project 3:
Amount Requesting: $200
Haiti H2O partners with Haitian doctors and nurses and leaders in three remote villages to host quarterly medical clinics where there are no doctors. The medical team has to travel to these remote villages to serve the communities. $200 will cover the transportation cost for the medical team for one quarterly medical clinic.
Wish Updated: 07/03/20/24
Wish Expires: 12/31/2024
Project 4:
Amount Requesting: $5,000
Haiti H2O partners with Haitian doctors and nurses in three remote villages to host quarterly medical clinics where there are no doctors. Each clinic sees an average of one hundred patients from the community and surrounding areas. Some individuals walk miles to attend a clinic. Regular mobile clinics can better treat ailments like diabetes and high blood pressure which are common in Haiti. Left untreated, these conditions often lead to heart attack or stroke.
Wish updated 10/08/2024
Wish expires 04/08/2025
Leechburg Area School District
Project 1:
Requesting: $500
We wish is to have a Cricut Vinyl Cutter for my classroom and for the Science Club that I sponsor here at LASD. We would use the vinyl cutter to create a variety of classroom materials as well as use it in Science Club to help us create our fundraisers to continue to support STEAM motivated students and the events/trips we take.
Project 2:
Requesting: $2,000
We have a senior here at LASD that has wanted to create a greenhouse space for many years. But, due to funding limitations, it has been unsuccessful. We would love to get a greenhouse set up on our campus to expose students to the agricultural practices that go into growing our food as well as the life cycle of plants. This greenhouse would be accessible to the entire school from grades K-12 and would be a shared space for hands on learning.
Wish updated 10/08/2024
Wish expires 04/08/2025
Leechburg Area High School
Project 1-Providing Alternatives to Hunger (PATH) program:
Requesting $5,000
The Providing Alternatives to Hunger (PATH) program is a facilitated through the Leechburg Area School District in conjunction with the local ministerium and food bank. The goal of the program is to provide students with a bag of nutritious snacks for the weekends. Food items are ordered through the school cafeteria and funded by donations to the PATH program via the Leechburg Food Bank. Currently, a small group of high school students and staff pack the bags and distribute approximately 115 bags per week to elementary students on Fridays. PATH bags are available to middle/high students in the nurse’s office. Items for each bag “costs” between $3.50-$4.00.
Project 2-Memorial Day Flag Project
Requesting $500
Funds to purchase t-shirts, lunches, drinks and rain gear (if needed) for students who place flags in 11 local cemeteries for Memorial Day. Yearly, a small group of students and staff place over 1500 flags over a two-day period.
wish updated: 11/01/2024
wish expires: 05/01/2025
Orphans of the Storm
Requesting: $10,000
Orphans’ kennel is a 1,500 SF shelter, built in 1971. It is too small for the current and future pet needs. Recent highway work has caused frequent flooding from a nearby pond and stream, necessitating immediate evacuation of the animals, putting employees and volunteers at risk, and damaging the facility and records.
wish updated 06/30/2024
wish expires: 12/31/2024
St. Paul's Highfield Lutheran Church
Requesting: $1,200 - $1,500
We wish to obtain an AED for our church. We are requesting either funding to purchase one or that an organization would provide this equipment.
Wish updated: 10/10/2024
Wish expires: 04/10/2025
Team Friends of Armstrong County
Requesting: $4,000
Team Friends in a nonprofit organization that serves adults with disabilities after high school by providing social events, opportunities to serve in their community, and support to their caregivers. The Team Friends Armstrong County chapter serves over 100 adults at each monthly event. A donation of $5000 would cover costs of our events for a year and allow us to provide our services and events at no charge to our individuals for an entire year!
Wish Updated: 11/05/2024
Wish expires: 05/5/2025
The Center Midland
Requesting: $5,000
We are requesting funding to help provide transportation for 30-50 students to attend off-site educational trips. Each month we provide these experiences for students in K4-3rd grade and 4th-12th grade at no cost to the families. Such trips include the Science Center, Pittsburgh Zoo, museums, and plays. These experiences allow students to learn, encounter new possibilities, and increase their view of the world that would otherwise not be possible.
Requesting: $5,000
This wish is to continue to provide enrichment classes for our students. We serve 85-100 students daily through our year-round youth development programs. Our enrichment classes in cooking, hiking, gardening, boxing/fitness, dance, literary arts, visual arts, podcasting, short film making, photography, STEM, and music provides students with opportunities to discover their passions, learn new skills and healthy ways to express themselves, and create and explore in safe spaces.
Wish updated 07/01/2024
Wish expires: 12/01/2024
The Kittanning Cemetery.
Requesting: $15,000
Funds are requested to complete repaving of the cemetery roads. Paving costs are extremely high and we can only complete one section at a time.
Requesting: $20,000
Funds are requested to begin construction of a columbarium. Initial quote for construction is $110,000. the requested funds would help immensely in the preliminary planning and construction phase.
Wish Updated: 07/09/2024
Wish Expires: 12/09/2024
Visiting Nurses Association, Western PA (VNA) Home Health
Amount Requesting $15,000
VNA provides remote health monitoring to seniors living in rural areas of Armstrong County, especially those who have recently been discharged from the hospital. In many cases, these individuals do not qualify for home health care and do not have the funds needed to cover the cost of the monitoring. This equipment checks the vitals of the patients and alerts VNA staff if there is an issue. This monitoring can help to avoid major medical issues, and can also eliminate readmissions to the hospital. This funding will help to cover the cost of additional monitors, and other expenses associated with this initiative, for patients who cannot afford it.
Wish Updated: 10/20/2024
Wish Expires: 4/20/2025
Visiting Nurses Association of Western PA Hospice
Amount Requesting $25,000
As part of the care provided by VNA Hospice to residents of Armstrong County, the staff concentrates on each patient’s comfort and safety. Many hospice patients do not have equipment or supplies, or resources to purchase them, that help provide that additional comfort and ability to remain safe. As these patients near the ends of their lives, there are various personal items that would help to keep them more comfortable in their environments. These include bed and chair alarms, gei cushions, heel protectors, wheel chair foot protectors, shower benches and bed wedges. Many patients also do not have access to appropriate personal care items like shampoo, body wash, lotion and hair dryers. VNA Hospice would like to have access to a pool of funds that could be used to purchase these items for patients they serve in Hospice. This request would serve as the initial funds to meet this need.
Wish Updated: 10/21/2024
Wish Expires: 04/21/2025
If you are a nonprofit interested in submitting information for the grant wish list, please complete the Grant Wish List Request Form and email to jodi@servingtheheart.org or call 724-548-5897 for more information.
