Philadelphia-area nonprofit leaders relieved but frustrated as months-long Pennsylvania budget impasse ends

After months of uncertainty, nonprofit leaders across Pennsylvania say they're relieved the state budget is finally passed but frustrated it took so long.

For months, organizations like Family Promise Montco PA and the Victim Services Center of Montgomery County operated without stable funding, relying on extra donations, community partners and credit while waiting for state funds to be released.

"It means that there's less uncertainty in the lives of our families, in the lives of us as nonprofit leaders," said Marsha Eichelberger, executive director of Family Promise. She said her organization, which provides food and shelter for families, had run out of essentials like milk and eggs during the Pennsylvania state budget impasse.

At the Victim Services Center of Montgomery Co