{"id":303514,"date":"2026-10-10T02:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303514\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T02:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:40:35","slug":"nonprofit-serving-northeastern-berks-awarded-800000-for-renovations-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303514\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit serving Northeastern Berks awarded $800,000 for renovations | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKS COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; A nonprofit that has been serving the northeastern Berks community for 50 years is celebrating a big boost from the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Friend Inc&#8221; in Kutztown has been awarded $800,000 to help the group renovate a new food pantry and social services center on Bieber Alley.<\/p>\n<p>The group says the new location will be a base for programs focused on financial and digital literacy, food preparation, and senior health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat&#8217;s planned here will fit real, everyday needs for people in this area, and in rural communities like ours, where resources can be spread thin and transportation is a challenge, having services closer to home makes a tremendous difference,\u201d said Pa. Sen. Judy Schwank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; A nonprofit that has been serving the northeastern Berks community for 50 years is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-303514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","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\/303514","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=303514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}