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WATCH NOW: Anti-poverty group Community Action Lehigh Valley's 2025 annual meeting

Community Action 2025 annual meeting
Javier Diaz
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LehighValleyNews.com
Community Action Lehigh Valley will hold its 2025 annual meeting at Wind Creek Bethlehem on Wednesday, Nov. 19. The anti-poverty agency's annual event comes amid federal funding cuts and escalating costs for essentials like housing and groceries.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - One of the Lehigh Valley's most prominent anti-poverty agencies will hold its annual meeting today.

Community Action Lehigh Valley is a nonprofit organization that advocates for food and housing access as well as economic opportunity.

You can watch the meeting and presentations here starting just before noon.

The meeting comes amid federal funding cuts and high costs for families in essentials such as groceries and housing.

Organizers say the 2025 annual meeting will focus on how Community Action programming and initiatives "will evolve and transform while inspiring youth engagement, sparking economic success, and growing community pride."

The meeting is being held at Wind Creek Bethlehem.

Community Action Lehigh Valley runs Second Harvest Food Bank of the Lehigh Valley and Northeast Pennsylvania, which distributes almost 16 million pounds of food annually in six counties.

Community Action Lehigh Valley was founded in 1965. Besides food access, key programs cover housing, economic development, youth development and affordable energy.