AGAPE: Love From Above To Our Community

What AGAPE: Love From Above To Our Community does

AGAPE: Love From Above To Our Community is a Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania-based nonprofit founded in 2006 that delivers essential human services across Columbia, Montour, and Northumberland Counties. The organization operates six core programs — Life's Essentials, Daily Bread, Family Care, Bare Necessities, Joseph's Storehouse, and Disaster Response — providing food, clothing, household items, and crisis relief to low-income families and individuals in three adjacent rural counties. It has expanded its portfolio to include the WIN Project and Happy Tails Pet Food Bank, signaling incremental product-line extension beyond the original six programs.

The organization's business model is a donation-and-grant-funded nonprofit. Revenue is sourced from individual donations, foundation grants, and a partnership with Community Aid that channels donated goods into AGAPE's distribution channels. The organization has secured funding from a broad set of institutional partners, including the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, PNC Foundation, Highmark, Perry County Community Foundation, Harold Greaney Charitable Trust, TFEC, Stabler Foundation, and Hoverter Foundation. It also maintains a referral and service-delivery network with Join Hands Ministry, PCLC, Perry Housing Partnership, Perry Human Services, and Tri County Community Action, positioning it as a regional hub for community assistance.

AGAPE operates with an 8-person staff led by Executive Director Karla Alexander, COO Jo Connor, and Director of Food & Educational Programs Laurie Swank. In 2025, the organization earned the Candid Platinum Seal of Transparency, an external credential that raises institutional visibility. There is no disclosed technology platform, digital product, or AI capability; operations are logistics- and volunteer-driven. No financial statements were disclosed, so revenue scale and program unit economics cannot be quantified from the available evidence.

Name

AGAPE: Love From Above To Our Community

Legal name

Agape Love From Above To Our Community

Website

https://agape-pa.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

AGAPE is a Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania-based nonprofit delivering food, household essentials, family care, and disaster response to low-income households across Columbia, Montour, and Northumberland Counties through six core programs plus newer workforce and pet-food initiatives.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Social Services

NAICS

Community Food Services (624210), Community Food and Housing, and Emergency and Other Relief Services (6242), Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Food Assistance & Food Banks (BPAGAEAA)

Keywords

• Community social services
• Food assistance programs
• Disaster relief services
• Emergency financial assistance
• Family support services

Headquarters

HQ city

Bloomsburg

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations from Individuals: AGAPE accepts one-time gifts and recurring donations from individual donors through PayPal and mail-in check donations to support all charitable programs.
2. Foundation Grants: AGAPE receives grant funding from multiple foundations including Dollar General Literacy Foundation, PNC Foundation, Highmark, Perry County Community Foundation, Harold Greaney Charitable Trust, TFEC The Fund for Women & Girls, Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation, and Lawrence And Julia Hoverter Charitable Foundation.
3. Community Aid Partnership: AGAPE receives quarterly cash donations from Community Aid based on clothing donations by weight, supporting their scholarship fund.

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

AGAPE is a nonprofit organization that provides free community social services to individuals and families across Columbia, Montour, and Northumberland Counties in Pennsylvania. Its six core programs deliver food assistance, clothing and hygiene items, furniture and household goods, emergency shelter, financial aid, and disaster relief response, while connecting clients with partner agencies for long-term self-sufficiency support.

Product overview

AGAPE operates as a community assistance organization offering a coordinated portfolio of six core social service programs. The programs work together to address the full spectrum of client needs: Life's Essentials provides emergency financial assistance and crisis response; Daily Bread handles hunger relief and food access; Bare Necessities supplies hygiene and clothing; Family Care offers comprehensive family support; Joseph's Storehouse provides furniture and household items; and Disaster Response coordinates emergency recovery efforts. The programs collectively serve Columbia, Montour, and Northumberland Counties in Pennsylvania, bridging gaps between people in need and available community services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Life's Essentials: AGAPE's frontline response to urgent needs including financial assistance, emergency shelter, and disaster recovery.
• Daily Bread
• Family Care
• Bare Necessities
• Joseph's Storehouse
• Disaster Response

Products and services

• Life's Essentials

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Join Hands MinistrycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative community outreach program providing direction, intervention, and support to persons facing daily living challenges in Perry County. Referral partner for individuals needing various support services.
• PCLC Community Reentry ProjectcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborates with Perry County Prison and faith-based community to offer a Community Reentry Program for inmates. Provides adult education, GED classes, case management, and mentor pairing for inmates reentering the community.
• Perry Housing PartnershipcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDevelops affordable housing opportunities for Perry County residents including low-income, disabled, elderly and/or homeless individuals and families. Provides transitional housing services.
• Perry Human ServicescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEstablished in 1974, provides quality drug and alcohol services, adult social services, and educational programs. Services include Representative Payee, Homeless Assistance Program, Certified Recovery Specialist, Prevention Services, and Outpatient Treatment.
• Tri County Community ActionminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOffers information and referral services, family self-sufficiency programs, and case management for Perry County residents.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• United Way of Columbia, Montour and Northumberland Counties: Local social-services coordination nonprofit operating in the exact same three-county footprint as AGAPE, with a comparable mission of connecting residents to essential services. Closest functional peer in terms of community social-support coordination.
• Meals on Wheels of Northeastern Pennsylvania: Regional nonprofit delivering meals and food assistance to vulnerable populations in northeastern PA — directly overlapping AGAPE's service area and Daily Bread hunger-relief mission. Comparable target beneficiary (low-income, food-insecure, often elderly or disabled residents).
• Weinberg Northeast Regional Food Bank: Food bank serving northeastern Pennsylvania — overlapping directly with AGAPE's Columbia/Montour/Northumberland service area. Comparable in offering (food distribution, hunger relief) and target beneficiary (food-insecure households), making it the closest geographic direct peer.
• Central Pennsylvania Food Bank: Regional food bank serving central Pennsylvania with hunger-relief programs analogous to AGAPE's Daily Bread food pantry and meal coordination work. Comparable in mission (food insecurity) and target population (low-income PA residents) though at materially larger geographic scale.

Broad incumbents

• Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Harrisburg: Regional Catholic Charities affiliate providing social services across central Pennsylvania including food, housing, financial assistance, and disaster response. Comparable programmatic mix to AGAPE, operating at a multi-county diocese scale well beyond AGAPE's three-county footprint.
• Volunteers of America Pennsylvania: Multi-service nonprofit operating across Pennsylvania with programs in housing, family services, food assistance, and disaster response — directly mirroring AGAPE's Life's Essentials, Daily Bread, and Disaster Response programs but at statewide scale and broader programmatic breadth.
• Salvation Army of Greater Hazleton: National faith-based nonprofit operating a regional command serving northeastern Pennsylvania with food, clothing, shelter, and disaster response — directly mirroring AGAPE's six-program portfolio, but at a substantially larger scale and broader geographic reach.

Regional players

• Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Scranton Area: Northeastern PA nonprofit providing housing-related assistance including furniture and household goods to families in need — overlapping conceptually with AGAPE's Joseph's Storehouse program. Operates in the same broader region with a related but housing-rather-than-food focus.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/AgapeLoveFromAboveToOurCommunity
• Instagraminstagram.com/agapelovefromabove/?hl=en
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/agape-love-from-above-to-our-community-bloomsburg

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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