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Book Circles! Libraries! Beer!

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Stuart Comstock-Gay | 0 Comments

It’s time for the DCF’s 2nd annual Building Opportunity Keynote and Book Circles! This year we’re moving from Our Kids to Our Towns. Here’s the story: How can we strengthen communities? What have communities across the country done to make themselves stronger, more resilient, more exciting places to be? How do communities address economic dislocation, loss of hope, opioid problems,…

5 Questions with Stu: Stephanie Staats, CEO, YWCA of Delaware

Posted on August 5, 2019 by Stuart Comstock-Gay | 0 Comments

Stephanie Staats, CEO at YWCA Delaware began working at the YWCA almost 10 years ago as the Chief Programs Officer. Prior to that role she was the Development Director for something called the Delaware Community Foundation. She also served as an Adjunct Instructor at DelTech, and the Chief of Staff at Delaware Humanities Forum. Stephanie has shown strong leadership skills…

5 Questions with Stu: Linda F. Poole, PhD

Posted on July 1, 2019 by Stuart Comstock-Gay | 1 Comments

A lifelong educator and educational leader, Linda Poole is the CEO of Educationally Speaking, a company that assists educators with improving student achievement through analysis of current status and research-based recommendations. She was a friend and the primary advisor to DCF fundholder Helen Eliason, who died in 2017. Linda is an advisor to the Fund for Children’s Literacy, a DCF…

Winners of the DCF and Mikva Challenge's Project Soapbox competition on stage

“Project Soapbox” Inspires Wilmington Students

Posted on June 18, 2019 by Stuart Comstock-Gay | 0 Comments

We’re in a kind of civics education revival in America. For too many years, civics education has in too many circles been seen as a kind of quaint afterthought. We’ve cut back the time and importance of civics in our schools. And we thought it wouldn’t really matter. But what we’re all finding is that the core value of democracy…

5 Questions with Stu: Michelle Taylor, President & CEO, United Way of Delaware

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Stuart Comstock-Gay | 0 Comments

Michelle Taylor has served Delaware’s communities through her work at United Way of Delaware for almost 20 years – more than half of that as the organization’s president & CEO, where she leads the organization’s focus on early education, college and career readiness, and financial stability in eight “promise communities.” She is an important voice among Delaware’s nonprofit infrastructure, and…

5 Questions with Stu: Talking Philanthropy with Nick Moriello from Highmark

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Stuart Comstock-Gay | 0 Comments

I’m very pleased to introduce a new element to my blog. Each month – beginning today – I’ll be posting another in a new series we’re calling “5 Questions with Stu.” Each month, we’re asking local philanthropic leaders to answer five questions about how they view philanthropy in their work, their lives, or their organizations. It’s a chance to hear from…

Going Far Together

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Stuart Comstock-Gay | 0 Comments

It’s long been said that if you want to go quickly, you go alone. But if you want to go far, go together. Yesterday’s Focus on Wilmington showed the power of going together. It was DCF’s first community engagement session this year, and brought together 14 collaborative programs in the city, with a hundred citizens, leaders and activists – to…

Quality Early Childhood Education Can Change Everything

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Stuart Comstock-Gay | 0 Comments

It would be hard to identify an issue that could have a greater impact on Delaware than high quality early childhood education. In this op-ed, from the January 22 News Journal, Lynn Kokjohn, (Chair of DCF’s Fund for Women) and I talk about why this matters. *** How can we really expand opportunity for kids in Delaware? Plain and simple,…

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