Sarah Gilmour to receive FFW Driving Force Award May 10
The Fund for Women at the Delaware Community Foundation recently announced the selection of Sarah Gilmour as the recipient of its 2023 Driving Force Award. This honor is presented annually to a founder or group that has gone above and beyond in moving FFW forward to achieve its mission. Gilmour will receive the award at the Fund for Women 30th Anniversary Grant Awards Dinner set for Wednesday, May 10, at Odessa Memorial Hall in Odessa.
This event will celebrate the Fund for Women’s 30 years of working to raise and distribute funds to Delaware nonprofits that help empower women and girls. The program will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., with doors opening at 5 p.m. Registration is required; go to fundforwomende.com/events.
Gilmour has been a Fund for Women founder for eight years and is currently the outreach and development manager for Pathways to Success, a nonprofit organization with a mission to prepare youth, adults and their families for successful lives. She began her tenure with this outstanding nonprofit organization as a grant writer.
Part of her role is to build relationships with other stakeholders in the world of caring about kids. In concert with Pathways to Success team members and volunteers, Gilmour manages special events and activities for students attending Cape Henlopen, Milford, Polyech, Seaford and Sussex Tech high schools.
As she is often heard to say, “It’s all about the kids!”
Gilmour is a member of the Volunteer Delaware 50+ Advisory Council, Polka Dot Powerhouse, Milton Theatre Advisory Committee, Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice and Village Improvement Association. She serves on the board of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce. She is a proud member of the Fund for Women Sussex County Development Committee and through her leadership has helped connect several new founders with FFW. Her broad network has contributed to the wide spread of information about FFW achievements and impact, not only in Sussex County but throughout the entire state. Her activities are all directly tied to empowering women and girls in Delaware.
Gilmour, a Lewes resident, serves as a powerful role model by showing her resilience and ability to persevere even in the face of personal hardship.
Pathways to Success has a mission to prepare youth, adults and their families for successful lives. It uses innovative and creative approaches in mentoring and education to help individuals develop to be healthy, productive, contributing and responsible citizens. Working in service to at-risk communities in a spirit of offering hope through empowerment, education and information, Pathways to Success will also be a catalyst to help eliminate housing discrimination. For more information, go to pathways-2-success.org.
Through collective philanthropy, the Fund for Women invests and advocates to empower women and girls in Delaware to achieve their potential by bringing together its members’ knowledge and passion. The FFW was established in 1993 as an endowment at the Delaware Community Foundation. Since then, the fund has issued more than $3.4 million in grants to hundreds of nonprofit programs statewide. For information, go to fundforwomende.com.
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 resources for the greatest community benefit statewide. For more information, visit delcf.org or call 302-571-8004.
