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DCF Welcomes Program Associate Yolanda Rushdan

Posted on April 17, 2019 by Rebecca Klug | 4 Comments

Rushdan joins the DCF’s community impact team. The Delaware Community Foundation is pleased to welcome Yolanda Rushdan as program associate. A native of North Carolina who came to Delaware in 1993, Rushdan most recently served as the director of development at Exceptional Care for Children, Delaware’s first and only pediatric nursing home. Previously, Rushdan worked in development at the Delaware

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Joan’s Toolbox: Qualified Charitable Distributions

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Allison Levine | 0 Comments

Joan’s Toolbox is an occasional series in which Joan Hoge-North, DCF vice president for philanthropy, shares information about different ways of making charitable gifts that maximize impact and tax advantages. Make a QCD for Maximum Community Impact and Maximum Tax Advantages Retirement funds are kind of like electronic piggy banks, helping us to put aside money for the future. But

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Potter Charity Trust Grants Available for Kent County Nonprofits

Posted on April 3, 2019 by Allison Levine | 0 Comments

Nonprofit organizations supporting the needy in Kent County are invited to apply for grants from the Potter Trust Grants Fund at the CenDel Foundation, a fund of the Delaware Community Foundation. The application deadline is June 15, 2019. The mission of the Potter Charity Trust, created in 1843, is to aid the economically underprivileged in Kent County by supporting charitable

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DCF Announces Community Equity Project

Posted on March 1, 2019 by Rebecca Klug | 0 Comments

Established and emerging leaders invited to apply. This spring, the Delaware Community Foundation (DCF) will convene the Community Equity Project, bringing together up to 10 experienced community leaders to develop and implement an innovative, collective approach to increasing equity in Wilmington. “A focus on increasing equity – increasing people’s access to the education, jobs, health care and networks necessary to

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New Grants Available from the DCF

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Allison Levine | 0 Comments

Delaware nonprofits are invited to apply for the Delaware Community Foundation’s Focus Grants and Specific Interest Grants. Focus Grants Focus Grants are available to initiatives that increase youth success and support Delaware’s growing Latino communities, two of the DCF’s three focus areas. Most focus grants will range from $10,000 to $20,000, with a maximum of $25,000. The third focus area,

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DCF Announces 2019 Capital Grants

Posted on January 14, 2019 by Allison Levine | 0 Comments

Delaware nonprofits are invited to apply for the Delaware Community Foundation’s 2019 Capital Grants. These grants support projects that have a lasting, positive impact. Capital grants may be used to fund construction, renovation or repair of buildings, and/or land purchases. Capital grants typically range from $5,000 to $20,000. Generally, grants will not exceed $25,000 other than on rare occasions due

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The Fund for Women’s Maude Glore, Lynn Kokjohn and Polly Mervine.

Applications Available for DCF Fund for Women 2019 Grants

Posted on January 7, 2019 by Rebecca Klug | 0 Comments

Deadline Jan. 30, 2019 Nonprofits helping women and girls in Delaware are invited to apply for grants from the Fund for Women (FFW) at the Delaware Community Foundation. The FFW’s one-year grants offer organizations an opportunity to obtain seed money for innovative, creative programming or to continue or expand programs in which the program’s effectiveness has been demonstrated. The FFW

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Grants Available from DCF’s Youth Philanthropy Boards

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Rebecca Klug | 0 Comments

Delaware nonprofit organizations are invited to apply for grants from the Delaware Community Foundation (DCF) Youth Philanthropy Boards (YPB). The Kent and Sussex County boards will award $10,000 each. The New Castle County board will award $15,000. Applications must be submitted by Jan. 1, 2019. Each county’s board will award grants to programs supporting a unique focus area: Kent County

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DCF Announces Scholarships Available for 2019-2020 School Year

Posted on November 29, 2018 by Rebecca Klug | 0 Comments

Delaware students are invited to apply for scholarships available through the Delaware Community Foundation. The deadline to apply is March 15, 2019. Last year, the DCF awarded 208 scholarships totaling $396,700 to individuals to assist them in pursuing higher education. Students can apply for most scholarships by completing a single online application, available on the DCF’s new platform. On the

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Group photo of New Castle County Youth Philanthropy Board

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 Welcomes Program Associate Yolanda Rushdan

Joan’s Toolbox: Qualified Charitable Distributions

Potter Charity Trust Grants Available for Kent County Nonprofits

DCF Announces Community Equity Project

New Grants Available from the DCF

DCF Announces 2019 Capital Grants

Applications Available for DCF Fund for Women 2019 Grants

Grants Available from DCF’s Youth Philanthropy Boards

DCF Announces Scholarships Available for 2019-2020 School Year

New Castle County Youth Philanthropy Board Selected

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