ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Truist Charitable Fund recenlty awarded a $150,000 grant to Community Action Development Allentown, or CADA, to support the CORE Neighborhood Partnership Program.
- Truist Charitable Fund awarded a $150,000 grant to Community Action Development Allentown
- The money will go to support CADA's CORE Neighborhood Partnership Program, of which Truist is the largest funder
- The program intends to break the cycle of poverty and violence affecting the young population in Center City Allentown
The program, now in its third year of a six-year initiative, intends to break the cycle of poverty and violence affecting the young population in Center City Allentown.
The grant from Truist Bank will contribute to a comprehensive strategy that encompasses education, vocational training, health and recreation and citizenship.
"The funding helps the mission because... we have to provide resources either in terms of instructors supplies, field trips, opportunities for them to experience new ideas and concepts," CADA Director Daniel Bosket said.
"One of the things that we try to do is expand the horizons of the youth that are that are in the program."Daniel Bosket, director of Community Action Development Allentown
"One of the things that we try to do is expand the horizons of the youth that are that are in the program. And so besides exposing them to new ideas and concepts, we also take them on field trips, for example, to Crayola [or] DaVinci [Science Center]."
'A community-building project'
Schnearia Ashley, the senior vice president and community development manager for Truist Bank, emphasized the potential of the CORE Neighborhood Partnership Program to transform lives and improve the community.
“I’m so honored to celebrate this impactful program, its outcomes and the potential it has to transform lives in our community,” she said.
"So we're trying to leverage, take our resources and work collaboratively to try to serve as many students as possible and it's been working very well."CADA Director Daniel Bosket
CADA, a subsidiary of Community Action of the Lehigh Valley, has collaborated with several community organizations, including Fine Feather Foundation, Freedom School and the Lehigh Valley Arts and Cultural Alliance to deliver services and support.
"The program is a community-building project," Bosket said. "So we have a lot of other community partners that we're actually working with.
"So we're trying to leverage, take our resources and work collaboratively to try to serve as many students as possible and it's been working very well."
