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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Recap: Meeting the Moment on Homelessness and Affordable Housing in Montgomery County

Last week, over 200 people joined us for our Community of Practice event, ‘Meeting the Moment: Taking Action on Homelessness and Affordable Housing in Montgomery County’ to discuss these dual crises taking place. Our goal was two-pronged: bring together the voices solutioning this important work and...

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

Montco evaluates anti-homelessness project

By Jessica Parks Blue Bell, PA - With its first year completed, Montgomery County's anti-homelessness initiative Your Way Home is reflecting on what worked well in 2014 and what more it can do in the future. The program, which brings together public, private, and philanthropic agencies to reduce...
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Thursday, April 9, 2015

Lansdale Farmers Market finds new home

By Dan Sokil Lansdale, PA - The seventh season of the Lansdale Farmers Market is starting soon, and will have a new location while work is done near its old one. “We’re very excited about the new site, and every time I go there I get more and more excited,” said market board member Carol Zellers.
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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Foundation and staff featured at Philanthropy Network Annual Meeting

Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia held its 27th Annual Members' Meeting on March 31, 2015 at Fringe Arts in Center City. Your Way Home Montgomery County was one of two collaborative programs honored at the event for sparking solutions in the region. Your Way Home is a transformational...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Seventy attend first MontCo Emergency Food System Conference

On Friday, January 30, the North Penn Community Health Foundation and the MontCo Anti-Hunger Network cohosted the first MontCo Emergency Food System Conference at the Giant in Willow Grove. There were several goals of the conference.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

North Penn Commons called a model for affordable senior housing projects

Carole Rossi works in the Schwenckfed Manor's General Store in Lansdale on Jan. 23, 2015. Photo by David Maialetti/Staff Photographer. The Philadelphia Inquirer. By Jason Laughlin Lansdale, PA - The Lansdale project may still be a year from completion, but people in upper Montgomery County and...
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Monday, November 10, 2014

Foundation report examines dual-eligible elderly in Montgomery County

Panelists discuss their views during the Planning a Better Future for Dual-Eligible Elderly in Montgomery County seminar at the Blue Bell County Club in Whitpain Friday, Nov. 7, 2014. Photo by Gene Walsh, The Times Herald. By Carl Rotenberg WHITPAIN, PA - A 78-year-old Norristown woman, a widow with...
Friday, September 5, 2014

North Penn Community Health Foundation Elects New Board Officers and Members

COLMAR, PA - The North Penn Community Health Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to announce the election of the following officers and new members:
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Foundation to Strengthen the Food Safety Net in Montgomery County

Colmar, PA – The North Penn Community Health Foundation recently awarded grants totaling $124,000 to four organizations in Montgomery County in support of its Food Security & Nutrition initiative .
Thursday, June 26, 2014

Bucks, Montgomery nonprofits work toward partnerships

By Rebecca Guterman KING OF PRUSSIA - Nonprofits that provide health services need to work together to better serve Bucks County residents, 23 representatives of about a dozen nonprofits agreed at a Wednesday roundtable at a Penndel restaurant. Much of the conversation centered on the benefits and...
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

$30M Lansdale development breaks ground

Architect's rendering of North Penn Commons. By Natalie Kostelni LANSDALE - A partnership involving four community groups broke ground Tuesday on North Penn Commons, a visionary $30 million campus on East Main Street in Lansdale, Pa.