Mark your calendar for May 16!  Dennis Cramer has arranged a wonderful musical evening to celebrate both his retirement as a music teacher and as a benefit for the Michael Petronchek Musical Scholarship, a component fund of the Armstrong County Community Foundation.
Mike Petronchek was an Armstrong County music educator whose memory was honored by the […]

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The Armstrong County Forum for Workforce Excellence, that is. Their tag line is “Workforce Excellence Together,” and YOU can be involved. Working together at Lenape Tech today, educators, employers, government officials, community leaders, and high school students (great idea!) are determining the actions we need to take to make our communities grow and succeed. David […]

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One of the many reasons I love working for a nonprofit organization is that I am in a unique position to help people, and today is such a day. When a young person like Shawna–a beautiful and promising Ford City High School junior–dies, most of us cannot comprehend the depth of grief that the family […]

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Infinity, the ACCF women’s giving circle, believes that small efforts, when combined with other people, add up to big results:

$1 a day from Infinity Grantmakers makes the group a philanthropic force
Switching to reusable bags can save literally millions of dollars in disposal costs and millions of gallons of petroleum (the petroleum in only 14 plastic […]

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