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Delaware Community Foundation awards specific interest grants

July 28, 2019

This year the Delaware Community Foundation has awarded $55,344 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.

Colonial Chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America Inc., $3,000, to enable the Accessibility Needs Program to serve more disabled individuals in independent living with necessary aids such as ramps, wheelchairs and prosthetic devices. 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 fund three adaptive bikes to children with developmental disabilities in need of fun, outdoor movement. 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.

The mission of the Delaware Community Foundation is to improve the lives of the people of Delaware by empowering and growing philanthropy through knowledge and relationships, now and in the future. As a facilitator, information resource and manager of charitable funds, the DCF helps communities and philanthropists focus charitable resources for the greatest community benefit statewide. For more information, go to www.delcf.org or call 302-571-8004.

 

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