The Allentown Rotary Club announced the award of $25,000 in its second round of COVID-19 Emergency Aid Grants.

Recipients include:

•Allentown Salvation Army to provide meals to the community, $5,000

•Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley for the Sixth Street Shelter, $5,000

•Community Bike Works to provide meals to school age children, $2,500

•Lily’s Hope Foundation for Packages of Hope to parents of premature babies, $1,000

•Allentown Symphony Association for El Sistema music instruction for students, $2,000

•Cedar Crest College Closing the Gap Fund, $1,000

•Da Vinci Science Center for its STEAM educational kits for students, $1,000

•Fund to Benefit Children and Youth for its mission to assist children, $2,500

•Allentown YWCA Perfect Fit for Working Women program, $2,000

•Turning Point for its mission of providing shelter to victims of abuse, $3,000.

The Allentown Rotary Club and the Allentown Rotary Club Foundation jointly established a $50,000 fund to benefit those nonprofits providing housing, food, medical/emergency care and educational services to members of the Allentown community during the pandemic crisis.

Recipients of the first round of grants included Meals on Wheels, $5,000; Allentown Rescue Mission, $5,000; Ripple Community Center, $5,000 and Casa Guadalupe, $5,000.

A donation of $2,500 was also made to Phoebe Home in memory of the Reverend Dr. Grant Harrity and in honor of Richard M. Snyder, both of whom were longtime members of the Allentown Rotary Club.