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Welcome to the Delaware Community Foundation
For more than 20 years, the Delaware Community Foundation has been
connecting people who care with the causes they care about by
helping them establish charitable funds and provide grants to the
nonprofit organizations they wish to support.
We invite you to
explore our website and learn you can help others make Delaware a
better place to live and work.
What's New at the DCF
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Who received this
year's Fund For Women grants? How close is the Milton
Historical Society to meeting their $300,000 endowment challenge
grant goal? Find out in the
Delaware Community Foundation's summer newsletter
Connecting People, Building Communities. For an online copy,
click here.
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The
Delaware Community Foundation has awarded $338,238 in capital
grants to 35 Delaware nonprofit organizations. This is the
largest number of awards the Foundation has made for capital
projects and equipment since the grantmaking program began in 1990.
Over the years, the DCF has given 406 capital grants totaling
$4,238,312, funded mainly through the State of Delaware Fund.
For information about who received this year's awards,
click here.
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Do you know a Fund For Women
Founder who has a record of exceptional generosity that
demonstrates civic or charitable responsibility? Someone whose
leadership has encouraged others in philanthropic roles? Join us in
honoring our original Founders and preserving the history of the
Fund For Women by nominating that special someone for the FFW's
First Founders' Award. We'll announce this year's recipient at
our Celebration of the Spirit of Women's Philanthropy in Delaware
breakfast on October 14 at the University & Whist Club in Wilmington
beginning at 8 a.m. For information and a nomination form,
click here. Nominations are due by
August 1, 2009.
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SAVE THE DATE! Join us for the
Southern Delaware kick-off of the African American Empowerment Fund
of Delaware on Thursday, July 23 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the
Sussex County Association of Realtors office in Georgetown. For more
information about the event, please contact Ann Frazier by calling
302.856.4393 or email
afrazier@delcf.org.
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NEW! With the support of a
Delaware Community Foundation program grant, the
Delaware
Lifespan Respite Care Network officially launched their new
website
www.delrespite.org. This new website will enable the
nearly 160,000 Delawareans
providing unpaid care for a relative, friend or loved one with the
resources to find quality respite care. Respite care is the
temporary relief or “break” provided for caregivers and families who
are caring for those with disabilities, chronic or terminal
illnesses or the elderly. For more information about the Network and
website,
click here.
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Thanks for joining 20-year LPGA veteran Alice Miller
for this year's Swingin' With A Star, Delaware's most
prestigious and profitable amateur women's golf event. Since SWAS
began benefitting the Fund For
Women, more than $1.000,000 has been raised to support programs
making a difference in the lives of women and girls in Delaware. For
more information about this year's June 22 fundraising success
story, check out
www.swinginwithastar.org.
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Are you interested in joining The
Next Generation? Want to find out what we are all about? Please
join us for our next monthly meeting on July 15 at Buckley's Tavern
in Centreville beginning at 5:30 p.m. For more info about the
event email
hannah.messner@gmail.com.
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delcf.org is under
construction! So, please bear with us while we prepare to launch
a new, more interactive version of our website.
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For 15 years now, the Fund For
Women has been making a difference in the lives of women and
girls in Delaware. More than 850 men and women have become
Founders, and due to
their generosity and fundraising success, the endowment now exceeds
$2.5 million. Are you one in a 1,000 who recognizes the power of
collective giving? To join, please call 302.230.7000 or sign
up via the
FFW's homepage. To see
"what's new" with the Fund For Women, check out their
March 2009 newsletter!
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The Delaware Community Foundation's Youth Philanthropy
Boards, one in each of Delaware's three counties, are composed of
students from public, independent and diocesan high schools
throughout the state. Each year these young board members study
youth issues in their neighborhoods and schools and learn about
community service and grantmaking. This year's YPBs awarded
$35,000 in grants to 15 nonprofit organizations throughout the
state. Since the program began in 1999, 240 students have served
as YPB members statewide and have awarded 120 grants totaling
$175,000. To learn more,
click here.
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Since Helen
Eliason established the Fund for Children’s Literacy four years ago,
more than $800,000 has been awarded in grants to help children learn
to how to read.
The program targets youngsters, from kindergarten through grade
three, who are struggling in school because of limited reading
materials or lack of parental support. This year’s grants totaling $217,048
supported 59 projects in
29 New Castle County public
schools; helping nearly 10,000
young students.
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Nearly 80 Founders
and guests joined
First Lady of Delaware & Fund For Women Founder Carla Markell
and 2009 Driving Force Award Winner Laura Day as the Fund For
Women awarded over $145,000 in grants for 15 programs that enhance the
worth and potential of women and girls in Delaware. To learn more
about this year's grant recipients,
click here.
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$150,000 in Delaware Hispanic Community
Needs Grants have been awarded by the Arsht-Cannon Fund for programs that
help Hispanic immigrants and their young children learn the English
language. To learn more about the five programs that received
the grants,
click here. To learn about the work
of the Governor's Consortium on Hispanic Affairs and to view
their published reports and issue briefs,
click here.
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Learn how the
Delaware Community Foundation is Connecting
People Who Care with the causes they care about in our 2008 Annual Report. To view the full report online,
click here.
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Since the launch of
the new
African American Empowerment Fund of Delaware
in June 2008, 54 people have contributed over $20,000 gifts to help establish a legacy of leadership in promoting
philanthropy to fund causes important to the education, social and
economic empowerment of African American Delawareans. Contact Jane
C. W. Vincent by calling 302.504.5237 to find out how you can become
one of the 100 Founders.
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Delaware Community Foundation
Fred C. Sears II, President and CEO
Main office: Community
Service Building, Suite 115, 100 W. 10th Street, Wilmington, DE
19801
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 1636, Wilmington, DE 19899
Phone: 302.571.8004
Fax:
302.571.1553
Kent County Office: P.O.
Box 1364, Dover, DE 19903
Phone: 302.535.6462
Southern Delaware Office: 36 The Circle,
Georgetown, DE 19947
Phone: 302.856.4393
Fax:
302.856.4367
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