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GTGH is excited to have Anchor Lancaster as a non-profit participant in the 18th annual Gifts That Give Hope Gift Fair, and in this blog, we are featuring their programs.

By Brad Zuke, Partner at May Herr & Grosh, LLP  AKA: The World Bicycle Relief Guy As you’re interested in donating to charitable organizations I’d like to offer some information...

Over $22,000 Raised for GTGH 2024! We are thrilled to share that, thanks to your incredible generosity, we raised over $22,000 at this year’s Gifts That Give Hope Fair! This milestone wouldn’t have...

Matt Desmond, author of Evicted and sociologist at Princeton University, recently spent some time at Water Street conducting research on the growing challenges we're facing with homelessness and how it's being addressed...

I see on the website that the Sierra Club - Lancaster Group offers grants for various environmental initiatives, can you tell me how many are given out per year? How...

By Marian Pontz  "When a vet has issues, all the people who know them will have issues.” –Scott Hower  For more than ten years, Scott Hower has been meeting with...

By Marian Pontz There was a need, and a group of community members decided to fill that need. As an organization, SEEDS has only existed for a little over two...

By Marian Pontz For more than thirty years, the Hempfield Foundation has awarded grants to Hempfield educators and staff seeking to improve their classrooms and positively impact their schools. The foundation...

You might be wondering... What Is The Period Project? There is suffering and stigma surrounding this topic, so our very own Gifts that Give Hope Gift Fair partner The Period...

By Marian Pontz  In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we're featuring Fai Hammond with the Domestic Violence Services of Lancaster County.  “We have two volunteers, but we need tons...

October kicks off Fair Trade Month (which we think should be celebrated all year we’re excited to highlight some of the amazing marketplace vendors who will be a part of...

By Marian Pontz “Children have their own walls to scale, and these children have so many more with one or both of their parents affected by incarceration,” says Brooke Beazley,...