Giving back: COVID fund gets $500,000 challenge grant; JPMorgan Chase tech donation; Beebe...
Longwood Foundation offers $500,000 challenge grant for COVID-19 fund
The Longwood Foundation is offering a new $500,000 challenge grant to the Delaware COVID-19 Strategic Response Fund, giving donors the opportunity to double the impact of...
Giving back: $2.3 million goes to Delaware nonprofits: Mountaire partners with Beebe; Wilmington...
A total of $260,592 in grants have been awarded from the Delaware COVID-19 Strategic Response Fund, pushing the total up to $2.3 million in the past eight weeks.
In its eighth round of weekly...
$178,625 awarded from Delaware COVID-19 Strategic Response Fund
In its seventh round of grants, the Delaware COVID-19 Strategic Response Fund today awarded $178,625 to 11 nonprofit organizations providing services to communities throughout the state.
The Deadline is Monday for final weekly grants opportunity
The...
COVID-19 fund distributes $488,000 to nonprofits
In its fourth and fifth round of grants, the Delaware COVID-19 Strategic Response Fund awarded $488,000 to 13 nonprofit organizations providing services to communities throughout the state.
The fund has awarded nearly $2 million in...
Longtime Food Bank of Delaware president abruptly resigns
Patricia Beebe abruptly resigned as president of the Food Bank of Delaware earlier this month. No reason for the resignation has been disclosed.
According to media reports, she had headed the organization for two decades.
Below...
Giving back: Drive-up pet food drive; $75K grant from Freeman Foundation,
This week, three animal shelters are teaming up to meet needs in three New Castle County communities.
On Friday, April 24th from 1p.m.- 3 p.m., Delaware Humane Association, Faithful Friends Animal Society, and Delaware SPCA...
Volunteers help make food distribution at Christiana Mall a success
The Delaware National Guard and an army of volunteers were part of the Food Bank of Delaware's first mass drive-through on Monday at Christiana Mall.
The event provided emergency assistance to 2,267 households.
A group of...
Giving back: JPMorgan Chase, SoDel, Citizens for a Pro-Business Delaware
JPMorgan Chase donates $100,000 to Delaware programs
JPMorgan Chase's Delaware Market Leadership team committed additional funding that will go to the rapid response fund funneled through the United Way of Delaware, the strategic response fund...
$350,000 in grants made from COVID-19 fund for nonprofits
In its second round of grants, the Delaware COVID-19 Strategic Response Fund awarded $350,000 to 13 nonprofit organizations providing services to communities throughout the state.
Funding included aid for long-term care centers, which have seen...
St. Anthony’s Festival canceled; smaller event in September possible
One of Wilmington's signature events has been canceled for the first time in its half-century history, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
St. Anthony's Italian Festival made the announcement on social media.
The event had been scheduled...