P. O. Box 427
Centre Hall, PA  16828
pennsvalleyhopefund@gmail.com

Upcoming Events

Cash Bingo
11/02
Centre Hall Elementary School
The JB Griffin Classic

The Hope Fund of Penns Valley would like to thank the Shaner & JB Griffin Memorial Foundation for their generous grant of $5,000 this year.  Please consider supporting the 18th Annual Golf Classic on August 9th and 10th.  The golf classic benefits JB Griffin Memorial Foundation which disburses funds to the Tides Program and will disburse additional funds to the Cancer Survivors Association, The HOPE Fund of Penns Valley and Rising Hope Therapeutic Riding Center. 

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Gala for HOPE 2018

Thank you to everyone who attended, sponsored and donated time and talents to make the Gala for HOPE a huge success this year!  We are so blessed! 

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Centre Gives 2018

The HOPE Fund of Penns Valley would like to thank everyone who donated to our organization through Centre Gives!  With your help, we had a successful 36 hours and raised $10,800 to help residents in the Penns Valley Area School District with a medical emergency or personal disaster.  Thank you again for your generosity!    

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Girl Scout Troop 40035 Donate to HOPE Fund
Girl Scout Troop 40035 Donate to Hope Fund

The Hope Fund of Penns Valley would like to thank Girl Scout Troop 40035 for making a donation to us from their annual cookie sales.  The Brownies had a "Journey" project of hearing stories of people's lives and their own.  Some of the stories had sad situations, so they revised them to make them feel better.  This project also earned them more badges.  Choosing The Hope Fund make them very happy, as they try to do the same in "Helping Other People Everyday (HOPE)."  The Hope Fund helps people in the Penns Valley community that have been faced with a medical emergency or personal disaster. 

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Christmas of HOPE is an off-shoot of the charity the HOPE Fund of Penns Valley.  The HOPE Fund was started because we saw a great need in our community to help residents faced with medical or personal disasters.

At Christmas time, we wanted to be able to help the families assisted by the HOPE Fund even more by providing Christmas for their children. Because the HOPE Fund is funded completely through donations, and because those donations are designated for families in need facing dire health situations or other tragedies, there needed to be a very definite separation between the HOPE Fund and Christmas of HOPE. Therefore, Christmas of HOPE is recognized as its own entity.

Christmas of HOPE takes referrals from guidance counselors at our local schools as well as church pastors and the outreach committee from the HOPE Fund.  Businesses and community members have generously stepped forward to sponsor children by donating money, gifts, and their time to provide Christmas for local children. In 2016, we served over 96 children of limited means through Christmas of HOPE. 

This program has grown tremendously since its inception.  This is our seventh year now and it is only been possible because of the support of the entire community.

We are about providing for the needs of the children sponsored as well as some of the "wants".  What we ask of our sponsors is very simple, but immensely rewarding. We give you information on a child. This will include the age, sex, sizes, needs and interest of the child. The form will not tell you a name, but for confidentiality sake, it will have a code. You and your family, team or co-workers will have time to shop for items on your list. If you volunteer to sponsor a child, the information you need for shopping will be given to you immediately along with other information and directions on what to do next.

Each child we serve also receives a new pillow case filled with miscellaneous supplies such as pencils, crayons, markers, school supplies, shampoo, body wash, tooth paste and tooth brush as well as a Faith based Christmas present.

All children that we serve are residents of the Penns Valley Area School District.  We are so blessed to be part of this community and to have so many generous people, businesses and churches help support this cause.  If you would like to consider sponsoring a child next year for Christmas or would like more information, you can email hopefundchristmas@gmail.com.  If you would like to make a monetary donation, checks can be made out to Christmas of HOPE and mailed to The HOPE Fund of Penns Valley, PO Box 427, Centre Hall, PA 16828.

Thank you for helping to brighten Christmas for our Penns Valley youth!  

 

The HOPE Fund is a Christian based, non-denominational, non-profit organization dedicated to helping other people everyday.

1. The purpose of the HOPE fund is to financially assist residents of the Penns Valley Area School District with a medical crisis or a personal disaster

2. The HOPE Fund started in response to the caring and generous support of people in the valley

3. Tragedies unfortunately happen everyday. The HOPE Fund wants to have contingency funds available so we can act swiftly when these situations arise.

We are a 100% volunteer run 501c3 Corporation.  With the administrative, fundraising, customer service and event related activities within a year's time, it takes over 240 volunteers to make the HOPE Fund run efficiently.  ALL of the money that we raise STAYS in Penns Valley to help those in need.  It is the belief of THE HOPE FUND that people are likely to recover faster when not faced with financial burden.  We have assisted stroke victims, cancer patients, heart attack victims, accident victims and those displaced by house fires.  Some more specific examples of residents we have helped are noted in our Mission   

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