Overview

Preschoolers enjoy the new Berwick YMCA Pool, which received over $1.2 million in grant funding.

The Central Susquehanna Community Foundation is the community foundation for Columbia, lower-Luzerne, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder and Union counties.

Three friends pose together in front of a quilt at camp
Ophelia. Each camper makes a quilt square to
memorialize the person(s) whom they lost.

Its purpose is to encourage increased philanthropy that will benefit the charities and communities located in this region, improving the quality of life today and for generations to come. The community foundation provides a vehicle for individuals, businesses, and nonprofit organizations to help their community through charitable giving. A wide range of planned giving options are available, and as a community foundation, we are able to offer the maximum tax benefits to our donors.

The Central Susquehanna Community Foundation was established in 1999 as the Berwick Health and Wellness Foundation and changed to the current name in 2003. The Central Susquehanna Community Foundation continues to administer its largest and original endowment, the Berwick Health and Wellness Fund, but it has also expanded its mission and geographic area in order to provide a wide range of charitable giving services.

Although the community foundation serves an expanded region, the Berwick Health and Wellness Fund will continue to provide grants in its original service area, which includes 23 boroughs and townships in greater-Berwick.

The Central Susquehanna Community Foundation is recognized nationally by the Council on Foundations as one of 600 community foundations in the country that meet its standards. The foundation is also a member of Community Foundations for Pennsylvania and is the sixth largest community foundation in the state.