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2019 Specific Interest Grants

$55,344 Awarded in Specific Interest Grants

This year the Delaware Community Foundation has awarded $53,344 in specific interest grants to 11 nonprofit organizations around the state.

Specific interest grants – created by donors to support issues they are particularly passionate about – focus on arts in Wilmington, long-term care, fulfillment of children’s wishes, and training and treatment of animals.


This year’s recipients are:

Delaware Shakespeare – $2,500

To support free, high-quality Shakespeare performances to homeless shelters, prisons and community centers through Delaware Shakespeare’s Community Tour, which launched in 2016.

Market Street Music – $2,500

To fund artist fees for a series of free concerts that will increase the availability of music in Wilmington, for those for whom cost, transportation or access is prohibitive.

Urban Promise Wilmington – $2,000

To support Speak UP!, a contest that will encourage at-risk teens to practice their skills through writing and presenting an original speech to an audience of community leaders.

Grand Opera House, Inc. – $2,500

To support sensory-friendly performances that specifically cater to individuals with autism and other special needs.

Exceptional Care for Children – $6,943.69

To fund new bedside storage solutions to help prevent infection in the bedrooms of residents, who are medically fragile children 0-21 years old.

Arise Delaware – $10,000

To support the Embrace Program, which will provide respite services through monthly three-hour events with dinners, games and socialization for individuals and families affected by disabilities.

Make-A-Wish Philadelphia, Delaware & Susquehanna Valley – $7,500

To enable more of Delaware’s critically ill children to receive wishes, which inspire and give hope to the children and their families.

Preston’s March for Energy – $7,000

To support the Embrace Program, which will provide respite services through monthly three-hour events with dinners, games and socialization for individuals and families affected by disabilities.

Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research – $5,000

To provide food, medicine and care for orphaned and oiled native birds, with the goal of returning them to their natural habitat after rehabilitation.

Faithful Friends Animal Society – $6,400

To support operation costs for the Free Pet Food & Supply crisis prevention program, which reduces pet relinquishment by providing owners with free pet food, supplies and education for preventative care.

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