Berks County Community Foundation has announced a major new gift that will support the community. The late Marian S. Snyder left a total of $17.1 million to the Community Foundation, one of the largest gifts the foundation has ever received.<\/p>\n
Mrs. Snyder died in 2018, but the final portion of the estate was received last month.<\/p>\n
In fiscal year 2026, the Community Foundation distributed $680,400 from the Marian S. Snyder Fund to six organizations, bringing the total amount granted from the fund to $4,564,206.50. The following provides a breakdown of the grants made:<\/p>\n
$60,000 to American Cancer Society\u202ffor the Philadelphia Hope Lodge to provide lodging, transportation, and support services to Berks County patients receiving care in the greater Philadelphia area.
\n$100,000 to Humane Pennsylvania for the support of the Healthy Pets Initiative and Pet Food Pantry.
\n$90,000 to Tower Health at Home for the purchase\u202fof\u202f5G-enabled iPads\u202fto implement\u202fComfort, the hospice\u202fcomponent\u202fof Epic HER software.
\n$250,000 to Foundation for the Reading Public Museum for continued improvements to the museum.
\n$135,400 to Animal Rescue League of Berks County for\u202fstaff development, facility upgrades, expanded veterinary services, modern equipment, and targeted\u202fcommunity\u202foutreach.
\n$45,000 to Vision Resource Center of Berks County for the installation of a security system and support of marketing.<\/p>\n
Since\u202fit was\u202festablished\u202fin 2018, the Marian S. Snyder Fund of Berks County Community Foundation has made\u202fa\u202fseismic\u202fimpact on\u202fthe designated organizations listed above.<\/p>\n
\u201cMarian Snyder\u2019s estate expressed her wishes\u202ffor\u202fthe foundation to make distributions to one or more of the organizations\u202fidentified, so long as\u202fthey apply the funding toward\u202fcreating a more sustainable\u202fand effective business model,\u201d says Cindy Milian, Health and Human Services Program Officer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe grants made from this fund have a profound impact on vital institutions of Berks County\u2014and therefore help improve quality of life for local residents.\u201d<\/p>\n
To learn more about Marian S. Snyder, her fund, and the organizations to whom grants have been distributed, visit https:\/\/bccf.org\/marian-snyder-grantmaking\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berks County Community Foundation has announced a major new gift that will support the community. The late Marian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-269825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}