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Falcon Foundation outlines grant programs; Key Club honored for 280+ service projects
Summary
Falcon Foundation vice president Angie Bensing described the foundation’s programs, EITC fundraising option and a fall awards deadline (Oct. 15); the board also heard from Key Club advisor Shannon Reich about student service accomplishments and a Sept. 24 grants-and-awards event.
The Cornwall-Lebanon School District on Monday heard presentations from the Falcon Foundation and the Cedar Crest High School Key Club highlighting community support and student service.
Angie Bensing, vice president of the Falcon Foundation, told the board the foundation “was incorporated in the year 2000 from the sale of a land grant that was given to Cornwall Lebanon School District” and described ways the foundation connects community donors with student and staff needs. She said the foundation has spent “well over a million dollars district wide on capital projects, staff needs, educational opportunities, and a wide variety of student grants.”
Bensing outlined donor options — a buy-a-brick program, a Thank-an-Educator giving opportunity, the annual Falcon golf tournament (scheduled for Oct. 4, 2025 at Iron Valley) and Pennsylvania’s EITC tax-credit program that allows eligible business and individual donors to receive a credit of up to 90% of their state tax liability when contributing to qualifying nonprofits like the Falcon Foundation. She described grant categories: student awards ($50–$1,000), employee professional-development awards, project grants (typically $1,000 or less) and capital project grants (more than $1,000). The fall awards deadline is Oct. 15.
Shannon Reich, a high school math teacher and Key Club advisor, described the club’s 2024–25 accomplishments: more than 280 service projects across Lebanon County and recognition at the Pennsylvania district convention, where the club received the third-highest service hours in its category (under 8,500 hours). Reich named the club officers and distinguished student award recipients and invited the board and community to the foundation’s grants-and-awards program on Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. in the Cedar Crest Middle School auditorium.
Both presentations were received with thanks from the board. “We are very, fortunate to have an active foundation, like we have,” the board president said after Bensing’s remarks.
What to watch: grant application deadlines (Oct. 15) and the Falcon Foundation golf tournament (Oct. 4).
