Your Community Is Your Best Marketing Tool
Your Community Is Your Best Marketing Tool Maybe you can’t afford a celebrity endorsement like Taylor Swift, but there are still plenty of lucrative opportunities to do something on a local scale. Influence marketing is changing. While businesses once chased celebrity endorsements and mega-influencers with millions of followers, smart companies are discovering that their most powerful brand ambassadors might already be customers or people sitting in the next booth at the local coffee shop. The
Community Improvement Awards Nominations Being Accepted
The Huntingdon County Chamber of Commerce is pleased to once again partner with the Huntingdon County Planning and Development Department to present the Community Improvement Awards. The awards will be presented at the Planning Commission Dinner on February 26, 2026. The Huntingdon County Improvement Awards are intended to recognize excellence in development. New building construction, or substantial rehabilitation, subdivision and land development, and park and open space projects are eligible.
'DYD' Campaign Raises $22K For Charities
'DYD' campaign raises $22K for charities By REBECCA BERDAR Staff Writer Aug 23, 2023 To conclude its first-ever Double Your Donation campaign, the Huntingdon County Foundation distributed over $22,000 in funds Monday afternoon to nine local charities. Taking part in the check presentation are, from the left: Bonnie Watkins, Southern Huntingdon Food Pantry; Samantha Ochs, Mount Union Food Pantry/Center for Community Action; Rachael Walters, Huntingdon House; MacKenzie Huntsman, Huntingdon County
Assisting community in need
Huntingdon County Foundation board member Phil Thompson, center, presented $1,000 each to Captain Elliott Higgins of the Salvation Army and the Rev. Brett Hoover, representing the Huntingdon Forum of Churches, for heating and utility assistance. This funding came from the Bill Alexander/General Fund of the foundation.Photo by KYLIE HAWNWith heating costs on the rise, board members of the Huntingdon County Foundation made a donation to the Huntingdon County Salvation Army and the Huntingdon Forum of
Leone Family Scholarship Awarded
Starting on the left, Huntingdon County Foundation president Lawrence Newton, John Leone, Sophia Wood, and Ann Dunlavy of Lincoln Caverns. Sophia Wood, a sophomore at Penn State University, is the latest recipient of the Leone Family Scholarship. The scholarship was founded nearly a decade ago by Bonney Forge CEO John Leone and his family in memory of their son, Rick Leone, who passed away unexpectedly in April 2012. The Leones donated the sum of $150,000 to the Huntingdon County Foundation to be utilized
Donations help community center
Representatives of the Huntingdon County Foundation and the Huntingdon Moose Lodge #223 were on hand to present two donations of $1,600 each to the Huntingdon Community Center for the purchase of four automated external defibrillators for the center. Those on hand for the recent presentation were, from the left, Dave Fortson, representing the Moose, HCC executive director Ted Aurand, HCF treasurer John Eastman and HCF board member Phil Thompson. Photo by Kylie Hawn, The Huntingdon Daily NewsTwo
