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Phyllis M. Wynn
Phyllis Wynn established the Youth Philanthropy Fund
at the Delaware Community Foundation to instill in young people the
desire to be philanthropic and help them develop grantmaking skills.
The fund provided $10,000 for the first Youth Philanthropy Board to
award to worthwhile projects.
When she realized the value of the hands-on
philanthropic experience she was able to provide to the high school
group, Phyllis created another donor-advised fund at the DCF. The
McMullen Fund will be used to teach the next generation of Phyllis’
family about the importance and joys of philanthropy. Shortly
before her death on September 30, 2006, Phyllis designated the Youth
Philanthropy Fund to be the beneficiary of the McMullen Fund.
Phyllis was a native Delawarean and a former
elementary school teacher who has been actively involved in
philanthropy her entire adult life, starting with the establishment
of a scholarship in 1972 in memory of her roommate at Ohio Wesleyan
University.
Phyllis’ love and appreciation for the First
Unitarian Church motivated her to make an unsolicited gift of $1
million to the capital fund last year. She also donated $25,000 to
Educate the Children – an organization that works to bring
meaningful education to children and women in Nepal – and is the
sponsor of a young girl and a Women’s Group in Nepal.
Phyllis is a founding donor of the Fund for Women.
She has generously memorialized both of her grandmothers as fund
founders, as well as sponsored her mother, her step-daughter, her
daughter-in-law and her granddaughter as founding donors.
Phyllis has been a volunteer for numerous charitable
organizations, including the American Cancer Society. As a cancer
survivor, she is a Reach for Recovery volunteer.
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