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Friend, Inc. Community Services runs a Pet Pantry in Kutztown for dogs and cats, one of the few pantries dedicated to pets. The Pet Pantry runs in conjunction with the Northeastern Berks Food Pantry…
From Friend, Inc. Community Services
Kutztown
Friend, Inc. Community Services runs a food pantry at the Kempton Community Center where Albany Township residents can pick up a box of food once a month. It is open to Albany Township residents and…
From Friend, Inc. Community Services
Kutztown
Friend, Inc. Community Services runs the Northeastern Berks Food Pantry at 60 Bieber Alley in Kutztown, where people shop their way through the aisles and choose their own food for the month. The…
From Friend, Inc. Community Services
Kutztown · Seasonal
Friend, Inc. Community Services in Kutztown hands out a turkey and a holiday dinner box each November and December so families can put a full Thanksgiving or Christmas meal on the table. The boxes go…
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Kutztown
The Kutztown Area School District's McKinney-Vento / Helping Hands program is the district's Student & Family Support Program, serving K-12 students who are experiencing homelessness and other life…
From Kutztown Area School District
Countywide
The Berks County Court of Common Pleas runs the Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Program, established in 2012 to give the parties in a residential mortgage foreclosure action a procedure for resolving…
From Berks County Court of Common Pleas
Reading · Not taking applications right now
Family Promise of Berks County runs a Rent & Utility Assistance Program that offers emergency financial assistance to help families facing eviction or utility shut-off stay in their homes. That help…
From Family Promise of Berks County
Reading
The Homeless Assistance Program at Berks Community Action Program helps families who are homeless or facing homelessness through eviction or other circumstances by making a rental-related payment…
From Berks Community Action Program
Reading
The Berks Coalition to End Homelessness runs Coordinated Entry, one assessment that measures what a person or family experiencing homelessness needs and refers them to the community resources that…
From Berks Coalition to End Homelessness
Reading
Genesis is Hope Rescue Mission's initial emergency shelter program for men in Reading, providing up to six months of support to 100 men per night. Guests are provided three meals daily, free clothing…
From Hope Rescue Mission
Countywide
Hope Rescue Mission runs HopeHouse, a group of private apartments and group homes located throughout Berks County for people leaving its onsite residential programs and moving toward living on their…
From Hope Rescue Mission
Reading
Hope Rescue Mission runs the LightHouse Women & Children's Center at 715 North Sixth Street in Reading, a shelter for single women and for women with children who have nowhere to stay. The center…
From Hope Rescue Mission
Countywide
The Berks Coalition to End Homelessness runs a Safe Parking Lot, a designated lot where people experiencing homelessness can park their cars overnight safely and legally, which helps reduce the risk…
From Berks Coalition to End Homelessness
Leesport
Easy Does It, Inc. keeps 10 supportive housing beds at its Leesport campus for Berks County residents in recovery from substance use disorder who pay their own housing fees. Residents live in a…
From Easy Does It
Reading
Family Promise of Berks County runs the Hospitality Network, a 90-day program that gives families with children who are experiencing homelessness safe shelter, meals and case management. Families are…
From Family Promise of Berks County
Countywide · By referral only
Service Access & Management, Inc. runs the Shelter + Care Program in Berks County, which places people in individual apartment units scattered around the community and charges rent based on what they…
From Service Access & Management
Reading
Hope Rescue Mission runs a Transitional Housing program in Reading for men who are ready to move beyond emergency shelter into a more stable, goal-oriented living environment. It is the next step…
From Hope Rescue Mission
Reading · Not taking applications right now
The Berks County Housing Authority (BCHA) owns and manages 209 public housing units, apartments and duplex-style townhouses, spread across 9 developments in Berks County, and rents them to households…
From Berks County Housing Authority
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The Redevelopment Authority of the County of Berks runs the Major Systems Program, which helps low-income families who own and live in their home pay to repair or replace a major system of the house.…
From Redevelopment Authority of the County of Berks
Mohnton · Waiting list
The Redevelopment Authority of the County of Berks runs the Berks County Whole Home Repairs Program, and at this time it is only keeping a waiting list. In a program update dated 1/29/25, the…
From Redevelopment Authority of the County of Berks
Reading
The Budget Center at Berks Community Action Program offers budget counseling to anyone who needs help regardless of the circumstances. Its counselors handle rental and utilities assistance, home…
From Berks Community Action Program
Countywide
Habitat for Humanity of Berks County runs a First-Time Home Buyer Program that gives individuals and families the chance to own a fully renovated or newly built home when they would not qualify for a…
From Habitat for Humanity of Berks County
Countywide
Met-Ed runs a home weatherization program for FirstEnergy Pennsylvania customers with lower incomes, sending a trained educator to your home to find why your electric bills are high and installing…
From Met-Ed
Countywide
Dollar Energy Fund's Pennsylvania Hardship Program gives one-time grants that are applied directly to the utility bill of FirstEnergy customers. The partnering FirstEnergy companies are Met-Ed…
From Dollar Energy Fund
Countywide
Pennsylvania's Weatherization Assistance Program, run by the Department of Community and Economic Development, increases energy efficiency in homes by reducing energy costs and increasing comfort…
From Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development
Countywide · Seasonal
The LIHEAP Emergency Services Program, formerly known as the LIHEAP Crisis Interface Program, pays for emergency heating repairs and replacements for Pennsylvania households with low incomes. The…
From Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development
Countywide · Not taking applications right now
UGI Utilities tells its customers about LIHEAP, Pennsylvania's Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which gives energy assistance grants to income-qualified customers to help with the cost of…
From UGI Utilities
Countywide
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission publishes guidance and a standard form that customers and medical professionals can use when a medical condition in the household is a reason to keep a…
From Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
Countywide
The FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Customer Assistance Program, known as PCAP, helps income qualified residential electric customers of Met-Ed, Penn Power, Penelec and West Penn Power maintain electric…
From Dollar Energy Fund
Countywide
Met-Ed offers short-term help through its Customer Assistance & Referral Evaluation Services program to residential customers who have fallen behind on their electric bill because of a temporary…
From Met-Ed
Countywide
Berks County Public Libraries lends portable Wi-Fi hotspots that cardholders can check out from select library locations and use to get online at home or away from home. You need a Berks County…
From Berks County Public Libraries
Shoemakersville · Free and Anonymous
Keystone Military Families runs a food bank and pantry at 331 Main St. REAR, Shoemakersville, PA 19555, giving nutritious food to military families and veterans. The group lists the service as free…
From Keystone Military Families
Countywide
Helping Harvest runs a Mobile Market Program that brings nutritious produce, dairy and meats to neighborhood sites in Berks and Schuylkill Counties, where staff and volunteers hand the food directly…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Alburtis
Friend, Inc. Community Services runs the Alburtis Mobile Market, a once a month food distribution at Huff's Union Church, 540 Conrad Rd, Alburtis, in Hereford Township. It is held the first Thursday…
From Friend, Inc. Community Services
Reading · Taking applications
SNAP, formerly called food stamps, helps Pennsylvanians buy groceries with an EBT Card, and the office that takes applications in person in this county is the Berks County Assistance Office in…
From Berks County Assistance Office
Countywide · Seasonal
The Berks County Area Agency on Aging offers Farmers Market Nutrition Program checks, which people who qualify can use to buy food from farmers. The program begins June 1st, and checks are available…
From Berks County Area Agency on Aging
Countywide
Maternal and Family Health Services runs WIC nutrition centers in 17 Pennsylvania counties, including Reading and greater Berks County, and gives people enrolled in WIC Farmers' Market Nutrition…
From Maternal and Family Health Services
Countywide · Waiting list
Helping Harvest runs the Senior Food Box Program, which provides a box of food every month to more than 2,100 low-income senior citizens. The box is a supplement to what you normally buy, meant to…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Countywide · Seasonal
The Summer Food Service Program, run nationally by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and administered in Pennsylvania by the Department of Education, provides free, nutritious meals to children when…
From Pennsylvania Department of Education
Reading
Hope Rescue Mission serves three meals a day to the men staying in its emergency shelter programs at 645 North Sixth Street in Reading. The meals come with a shelter bed rather than as a separate…
From Hope Rescue Mission
Countywide
Berks Encore runs Meals on Wheels Berks County, which delivers meals to the homes of older adults who are unable to prepare their own food because of physical limitations. Along with the meal, a…
From Berks Encore
Countywide · Access to a free nutritionist
Maternal and Family Health Services runs the WIC Nutrition Program, which helps families buy healthy groceries and gives them nutrition support during pregnancy and while their children are small.…
From Maternal and Family Health Services
Countywide · Taking applications
Children in Pennsylvania can get school breakfast and lunch free or at a reduced price when their household income falls under federal limits. The United States Department of Agriculture released the…
From Pennsylvania Department of Education
Reading
Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank has staff who will guide you to food assistance in your local community if you are not sure where to go for help. The food bank works with more than 350 charitable…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Reading
Berks Encore, working with Redner's Warehouse Markets, sends a volunteer to buy your groceries and bring them to your home on a regular basis if you have difficulty getting to a grocery store or…
From Berks Encore
Countywide
Helping Harvest runs the Weekender Program, which sends a bag of healthy, non-perishable food home on Fridays with students who are food insecure, so they have something to eat over the weekend. The…
From Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank
Countywide · Seasonal
The Weekender Bag Program, run through the Conrad Weiser Food Pantry hosted at Trinity Lutheran Church in Robesonia, provides kid-friendly, nutritious, nonperishable food for Conrad Weiser students…
From Conrad Weiser Food Pantry at Trinity Lutheran Church
Countywide
The Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA) administers the Blind Veterans Pension, which pays eligible veterans a monthly pension of $150 when a service-connected injury or…
From Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
Countywide
The Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA) runs the Amputee and Paralyzed Veterans Pension, which pays eligible veterans a monthly pension of $150. To qualify, you must have…
From Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
Countywide · Taking applications
The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry runs the Unemployment Compensation (UC) program, which provides temporary income support if you lose your job through no fault of your own, or if…
From PA Department of Labor and Industry