Community project grants congressionally delegated

The Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service awarded Community Action Committee of The Lehigh Valley, Inc. (doing business as Second Harvest Food Bank) $729,000 on April 7, 2026, under the Community Facilities Loans and Grants program (CFDA 10.766).

The award funds development of an essential community facility in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania. The program provides affordable funding to nonprofits, public bodies, and federally recognized tribes to develop essential community facilities in rural areas that provide orderly community development and serve the local population, excluding private commercial or business undertakings.

Performance runs through April 7, 2028. Community Action Committee of The Lehigh Valley is a nonprofit organization providing food assistance, housing improvements, job training, education, and heating assistance in the Lehigh Valley region, primarily through federal grant sub-awards supporting weatherization, heating assistance, food distribution, and other anti-poverty services.