📢 We are three days into our 11-day matching grant challenge for our housing services, and we are so close to reaching the $50,000 mark! Will you help us get over the edge today? 🏠 It's only with your help that we can ensure 25 Bucks County families can stay in their homes. Together, we can turn potential evictions into lasting stability. ➡️ Donate what you can by July 31st to double your impact and change lives: https://lnkd.in/dKwFQU6C
Bucks County Opportunity Council
Individual and Family Services
Doylestown, PA 1,095 followers
Connecting people with resources to thrive
About us
the lead anti-poverty 501(c)3 community action organization in Bucks County. Our mission is to reduce poverty and partner with our community to promote economic self-sufficiency. The Bucks County Opportunity Council is 501(c)3 charity located in Bucks County who carries out its mission to reduce poverty through five programs: economic self-sufficiency, food, emergency services, weatherization and tax preparation. The economic self-sufficiency program works with motivated families through coaching and education to earn a livable wage and become free of all government assistance. As the lead food agency in the county, our food program supplies donated food, both government and private, to over 80 food pantries and distribution sites. The emergency services program helps individuals and families in crisis providing short-term assistance in the form of rental assistance or overdue energy bills. The weatherization program provides heater repair and replacement for low-income families as well as services to make home more energy efficient. The tax preparation program is run entirely by volunteers who prepare over 1000 tax returns annually saving low-income families on expensive preparation fees and maximizing tax returns. Our Wheelz to Work program takes donated used cars, evaluates them, repairs them if needed and then provides them to our economic self-sufficiency clients to help them over the barrier of transportation in Bucks County.
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http://www.bcoc.org
External link for Bucks County Opportunity Council
- Industry
- Individual and Family Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Doylestown, PA
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1965
- Specialties
- Poverty, Human Services, Homeless, Community Action, Self-Sufficiency, and Change
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100 Doyle Street
Doylestown, PA 18901, US
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721 Veterans Hwy
Bristol Township, Pennsylvania 19007, US
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Neshaminy Manor Center
1282 Almshouse Road
Doylestown, PA 18901, US
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136 C Mill Road
Quakertown, PA 18951, US
Employees at Bucks County Opportunity Council
Updates
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🧄 Thank you to our Hope of the Harvest volunteers from Wegmans Food Markets Warrington and DVL Group, Inc. who helped us pick so much garlic at Delaware Valley University that we decided to make garlic bouquets! They smelled tasty!
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BCOC was so glad to accept $50,000 from the Bucks County Water & Sewer Authority Golf Outing proceeds today! Thank you!
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📢 Fresh Connect Bristol is in need of volunteers this coming Friday, July 24th! Will you join us? Sign Up to Volunteer: https://lnkd.in/eKYrytiK
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💝 Thanks to a generous matching grant challenge from The Gene and Marlene Epstein Humanitarian Fund, BCOC has the chance to 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞 $𝟏𝟓𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟐𝟓 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲! 🏠 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟑𝟏𝐬𝐭, we have a goal to raise $100,000 for our housing services, which will be matched up to $50,000. When you help us reach our goal of $150,000, you're stopping evictions before they escalate into homelessness for 25 local families. 𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐥! ➡️ Donate what you can by July 31st to 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬: https://lnkd.in/dKwFQU6C
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We always love having our awesome volunteers The Next Step Programs helping out at Hope of the Harvest! Thank you to everyone who came out this week to Delaware Valley University!
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Thank you to our volunteers from Tecomet who helped us out at Fresh Connect Bristol last week! Fresh Connect is a collaborative of the Bucks County Opportunity Council, ROLLING HARVEST FOOD RESCUE, St. Mary Medical Center, and Philabundance, with funding from United Way of Bucks County.
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🚗 We received another vehicle donation for our Wheelz 2 Work program from some much-appreciated repeat donors who previously donated their Tesla to our program. These generous donors are incredibly kind and genuinely excited to help another family on their journey toward self-sufficiency. 🚦 If you have a vehicle you would like to donate to our W2W program, you can learn more at https://lnkd.in/eNPaXNXD. 🛞 Upon completion of your donation, you will receive documentation regarding the Fair Market Value of your car based on the Kelley Blue Book. Avoid the hassle of trading in or selling your used car. Donors may claim the highest deduction possible of the vehicle’s fair market value because BCOC will donate the car to a deserving individual, furthering the charitable purpose of helping a person in need of a means of transportation per IRS guidelines.
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