The Delaware Community Foundation opened a new Kent County office last month on West Loockerman Street in Dover, formalizing work to increase the foundation’s presence and outreach in central Delaware. With the addition of the Dover office, the DCF now has locations in each Delaware county. The Community Fund headquarters is in downtown Wilmington, and the Sussex County office is on The Circle in Georgetown.
The DCF is opening the new Kent County office in partnership with the CenDel Foundation, a DCF fund that focuses on developing lasting charitable funds to benefit Central Delaware. The office will be staffed by a new DCF senior vice president for central Delaware, and a part-time administrative assistant funded by CenDel.
Even before establishing the new office, the DCF has had an active role in Kent County, receiving guidance from the Kent County Advisory Committee, engaging high school students in philanthropy through the Kent County Youth Philanthropy Board, and working with dozens of fund holders and important nonprofit organizations throughout the county, a release stated.
“The new office will enable us to develop a more thorough understanding of the needs that exist in Kent County,” DCF CEO Fred Sears said. “The better we understand those needs, the better we will be at identifying resources to meet those needs.” With more than 1,200 funds, $220 million in assets and annual grants of about $13 million, the foundation provides a lasting source of charitable funding to benefit Delawareans now and into the future.
Video highlights response to SNAP cuts
Delaware, Department of Health and Social Services Secretary Rita Landgraf highlighted a winter-long anti-hunger campaign underway in Delaware in the weekly video from the Governor’s Office. Click here or click on the image above to view the video
“In my agency, the Department of Health and Social Services, we serve 156,000 Delawareans who receive Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits,” said Landgraf. “In November, cuts by Congress reduced our SNAP budget by $16 million. Working with partners like the Food Bank, we are determined to close that gap and make sure that no one goes hungry.”
