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ExtraGive is Friday, November 21, 2025
Make your plan to support COBYS
The ExtraGive (the 24-hour day of giving sponsored by the Lancaster County Community Foundation) is a great event to show your support for COBYS.
Set Your Reminder For the Day. Choose the best time to give that works for you, whether you are an early bird or a night owl or somewhere in between.
Matching Gift Sponsors.
At select times during ExtraGive day, your gift will be matched dollar for dollar by these generous COBYS sponsors:
Fillmore Container
will match gifts from 6:00-9:00 am dollar for dollar up to $100 per donation for a total of $2,500 in extra generosity. Start the “extra” in the ExtraGive early!
Grauer’s Paint & Decorating is generously matching your gifts at two times. From 11:00 am – 1:00 pm gifts will be matched dollar for dollar up to $100 and from 4:00 – 7:00 pm they will be matched up to $150 of each donation for $5,000 total.
National Energy Control Corporation keeps the generosity going late in the evening. Gifts made from 7:00 – 10:00 pm will be matched dollar for dollar up to $100 for a total of $2,000.
The ExtraGive Is A Great Time to Give to COBYS
The logistics are the same as last year. Stretch Pool funds are awarded based on the number of donors, so a small donation helps even you typically support COBYS at other times.
- Visit ExtraGive.org between 12:00 midnight and 11:59 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025.
- Choose COBYS from the list of organizations
- Using a credit card make an online donation of $10 or more.
- COBYS will receive a proportional share of the Stretch Fund
It’s the Little Things. Even small gifts starting at $10, like small acts or small “extras” for kids can have a big impact. Gifts given throughout the day may be randomly chosen to receive prizes. For the complete prize list, see extragive.org/prizes.
Gifts That Give Hope – November 30, 2025 
Lancaster Farm & Home Center • 11 AM – 3 PM • Free Admission • Bring Your Friends & Family
A one-day celebration of alternative gift giving. Our annual alternative gift fair gives ethically minded and socially conscious shoppers a central location to “put their money where their heart is” in terms of aligning their desire to live with intention throughout the year with their spending habits around the holidays. Oftentimes, individuals want to make more conscientious choices in recognizing the incredible potential they wield in galvanizing their purchasing purchase to cast a vote for the kind of world in which they want to live.
Caring Hearts Luncheon – March 26, 2026
The Inn at Leola Village, Bella Giardino • 11:30 AM – 1 PM
The annual Dinner & Conversation is moving to midday. Details will come but mark your calendar to be available for a delicious lunch with fellowship and a deeper connection with the COBYS Community. Updates to what’s going on at COBYS and stories of the good work we’re doing together.
The Wenger Foundation Praise Dinner – April 28, 2026
Lebanon Expo Center • 80 Rocherty Road, Lebanon, PA • 6:00 PM
The Wenger Foundation Annual Praise Dinner, where you will enjoy a delicious meal with friends, hear an inspirational speaker and tap your shoes to the sounds of Christian music. Having hosted this event for so many years, the foundation is so grateful for the overwhelming generosity of our community.
COBYS Baseball Bash – May 16, 2026
Penn Medicine Park
Spring means baseball, and in Lancaster that means the Stormers. COBYS will be hosting a evening ball game in the Silverbox suite. There’s the game (of course), food, pinball machines and more. Plus a chance to connect with COBYS in a relaxed, comfortable environment. Come to support the Stormers and COBYS!
Thank you for your support of COBYS at the 2025 Bike & Hike
Over $112,000 raised!
You came, you rode, you walked, you sundaed!
With the support of business sponsors, Kickstart contributions and participants (many who enlisted people to sponsor them), over $112,000 was raised.
COBYS honored the top three fundraisers: Floy Fitzkee, Londa Brandt and Don and Carolyn Fitzkee. Many other individuals, families and groups, including Mountville Church of the Brethren, rallied support from friends and family to support our services.
Funds raised at the Bike & Hike allow COBYS to provide care the way care should be provided, with compassion, dignity and hope, to kids and families who are often experiencing trauma and at their lowest point. Together we lift them up.
No matter how you participated, your partnership during the COBYS Bike & Hike helps make a positive difference in the lives of kids, adults and families entrusted to our care. Together we are making a better community and offering hope.
Live Podcast-Community Matters
On Thursday, November 9, 2023 from 5-6:30 pm in the Lancaster Library Community Room, 151 N. Queen St., Lancaster, PA 17603, “2 Adoptive Mamas” recorded a podcast episode in front of a live audience. An expert panel participated in an interactive conversation about the importance of the whole community supporting foster care and adoption as well as resources for foster and adoptive children.
This podcast can be heard here.
Other 2.A.M. podcast episodes can be heard at: https://twoadoptivemamas.com/podcast/