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New Castle County Youth Philanthropy Board Selected

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Rebecca Klug | 0 Comments

High school students will award $15,000 in grants to New Castle County nonprofits Thirty-two New Castle County high school students will experience the joys and challenges of being philanthropists this year through the Delaware Community Foundation’s Youth Philanthropy Board (YPB). Like its counterparts in Kent and Sussex Counties, the New Castle County YPB includes students from public, private and parochial

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DCF Announces New Strategy to Build Opportunity In Delaware

Posted on November 15, 2018 by Allison Levine | 0 Comments

Hundreds of people are getting more involved in building opportunity in Delaware after hearing Prof. Robert D. Putnam speak at the Delaware Community Foundation’s inaugural Leadership Lecture on Wednesday night. Wednesday night’s Leadership Lecture, which featured world-renowned sociologist and author of Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis and Bowling Alone, Prof. Robert D. Putnam, was the first of what

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Cover of Robert D. Putnam's Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

World-Renowned Author and Sociologist to Speak on Opportunity in Delaware

Posted on November 9, 2018 by Allison Levine | 0 Comments

Tickets are still available to hear Prof. Robert D. Putnam, author of Our Kids and Bowling Alone. The public is invited to hear world-renowned sociologist and author Prof. Robert D. Putnam speak about opportunity in Delaware on Nov. 14 in Wilmington at an event hosted by the Delaware Community Foundation. Putnam, the author of Our Kids: The American Dream in

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CenDel & DCF Award $235K to Kent County Nonprofits

Posted on November 5, 2018 by Allison Levine | 0 Comments

The CenDel Foundation and the Delaware Community Foundation have distributed $235,000 in grants to nonprofits focused on emergency housing, homelessness, hunger and health care. The grants were distributed from the Benjamin Potter Charity Trust, a fund administered by CenDel and the Delaware Community Foundation. Grants were distributed to nine organizations in November. The grant amounts ranged from $15,000 to $40,000.

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Arsht-Cannon Fund: The Epitome of Good Philanthropy

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Stuart Comstock-Gay | 3 Comments

(In Spanish below) Focus. Strategy. Persistence. These are the qualities of the Arsht-Cannon Fund, one of the DCF’s most exciting donor advised funds. Under the leadership of Adrienne Arsht and Dr. Christine Cannon, the Arsht-Cannon Fund is making a powerful impact on Latino families and communities in Delaware. As we approach this year’s Delaware Hispanic Commission Summit on October 30,

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New Kent & Sussex Youth Philanthropy Boards Selected

Posted on October 24, 2018 by Allison Levine | 0 Comments

Forty Kent and Sussex County high school seniors and juniors will experience the triumphs and challenges of being philanthropists this year through the Delaware Community Foundation’s Youth Philanthropy Board (YPB). Like their counterpart in New Castle County, the Kent and Sussex County YPBs include students from public, private and parochial schools. The DCF gives the Kent and Sussex County student

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Charity and your IRA

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Stuart Comstock-Gay | 0 Comments

This is a modified version of a column that was printed in the Oct 16 issue of the Delaware Business Times. *** Being generous with our money is one of the great joys in life. Whether we’re giving to help communities ravaged by natural disasters, local schoolchildren, for environmental cleanup, arts programs or any other passion, giving helps make our

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Riverview Works Fund: Born of an iconic company, new DCF charitable fund will benefit Delaware for generations

Posted on October 10, 2018 by Allison Levine | 0 Comments

Since 1869, when Joseph and Allen Speakman opened a modest workshop in Wilmington, The Speakman Company was a trusted employer and committed community force in Delaware. To this day, its iconic brass showerheads and brass plumbing fittings are known worldwide. Although The Speakman Company was sold in 2018 after 149 years of family ownership, its legacy will live on, benefiting

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Rebecca Klug Joins the DCF as Marketing and Communications Associate

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Allison Levine | 0 Comments

The Delaware Community Foundation is pleased to welcome Rebecca Klug as marketing and communications associate. Klug previously worked as communications director for the Ministry of Caring, a Delaware nonprofit dedicated to serving people experiencing poverty and homelessness. Prior to that, Klug served as director of marketing for The Delaware Contemporary (formerly the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts) and as

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about the American Dream … book circles and a talk

Posted on September 18, 2018 by Stuart Comstock-Gay | 0 Comments

I want to believe in the American Dream. I want to embrace the idea that with hard work and diligence, and a little help from others, we can all succeed and thrive. I want to stand behind the idea that wherever you are from, you can come here and you will have a chance to live a good life. I

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