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Spring Newsletter

Every spring the Moses Taylor Foundation team comes together for a day-long retreat. Our fiscal year begins July 1 and the spring retreat provides time to reflect and plan the year ahead. One year into our strategic plan, this spring’s retreat focused on adaptive strategy---balancing clarity and focus with the flexibility to pivot in response […]

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Mental Health Month Webinars

While 1 in 5 people will experience a mental illness during their lifetime, everyone faces challenges in life that can impact their mental health. The good news is there are practical tools that everyone can use to improve their mental health and increase resiliency - and there are ways that everyone can be supportive of […]

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Mental Health Awareness Campaign Launches

While 1 in 5 people will experience a mental illness during their lifetime, everyone faces challenges in life that can impact their mental health. The good news is there are practical tools that everyone can use to improve their mental health and increase resiliency - and there are ways that everyone can be supportive of […]

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Grantee Highlight: Northeast Regional Cancer Institute

Grantee: Northeast Regional Cancer Institute Grant awarded: $4,500 for an Evaluation of the Community-Based Cancer Screening Navigation Program If you ask Mary Wetherall, RN, MSN, HN-BC, CEO of NEPA Community Health Care, what her organization’s most immediate need is, “space” might be on the top of her list. That’s because the number of patients seen […]

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Support in Responding to COVID-19 Coronavirus

Dear Friends, We hope you and your loved ones are staying safe and healthy during these challenging times. Thank you for joining last week's Emergency Planning for Nonprofits webinar. At the bottom of this post, you'll find links to the hand-outs, slide presentation and recording. While our team is keeping abreast of the unfolding crisis […]

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Northeastern Pennsylvania School Nurse Needs Assessment Update

Dear Friends, We hope you are staying safe and well during this difficult time. While we know that for many of you, like us, responding to the evolving COVID-19 situation has temporarily overtaken other priorities, we did want to send out a brief note to update you on our ongoing commitment to supporting school nurses.  […]

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Winter Newsletter

A year ago we launched our first strategic plan—formed from months of discussions with many of you on opportunities to improve the health of people in NEPA. Some parts of our plan have progressed faster than anticipated. Scranton Area Community Foundation’s inaugural NEPA Learning Conference sparked great new energy around nonprofit capacity building! An exciting […]

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Join us for an upcoming event on 2/4/20

You're Invited: An Introduction to the U.S. Census for Nonprofit Organizations Every 10 years, the United States government conducts the census — a national accounting of every person living in every state, Washington, D.C., and five U.S. territories. Nonprofits of every size and type play a crucial role in making sure the communities they serve are […]

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Honoring and remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.

Words to remember: “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” “Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are […]

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