Building Opportunity in Delaware 2024!
The DCF believes communities are stronger when we all have the opportunity to thrive, so we are Building Opportunity in Delaware through an annual series of activities and events to advance important conversations. Read more about our Building Opportunity movement or experience it for yourself through our Book Circles, Keynote and Community Conversations.
Keynote
On Oct. 24, Eric Klinenberg will speak at the 2024 Building Opportunity Keynote Presentation at Clayton Hall. In his latest book, 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed, Klinenberg examines the individual stories of seven New Yorkers weathering 2020’s challenges and the varied human responses to the crises. Through Klinenberg’s brilliant study, the DCF invites you to join us as we explore, analyze, and learn from 2020 to create a more resilient and equitable Delaware, no matter what future challenges we face.
Podcast
Season 5 of our Building Opportunity Podcast is available! DCF President & CEO Stuart Comstock-Gay spoke with community leaders about being advocates for the voice of the next generation. All episodes are available for listening and downloads.
Book Circles
In 2024, we will read and discuss 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed by Eric Klinenberg. At the heart of 2020 are seven vivid profiles of ordinary New Yorkers—including an elementary school principal, a bar manager, a subway custodian, and a local political aide—whose experiences illuminate how Americans, and people across the globe, reckoned with 2020. Through these poignant stories, we revisit our own moments of hope and fear, the profound tragedies and losses in our communities, the mutual aid networks that brought us together, and the social movements that hinted at the possibilities of a better world.
The Delaware Community Foundation is committed to building opportunity for all and advancing racial equity.
Our community is stronger when we all have the opportunity to thrive, and for too long there have been, and continue to be, historic barriers, legal and cultural, to the full participation of Black and brown Delawareans.
In the fall of 2018, we launched Building Opportunity in Delaware, an annual program that brings a national speaker to Delaware who shares big ideas, sparks community conversations, and inspires civic action through their research and writing on the issues contributing to inequity and the opportunity gap in our country.
Learn more about how we’re collaborating in the community and how you can get involved.
Sponsors
Equity Sponsor
Book Circles Sponsor
Keynote VIP Reception Sponsor
Conversations with Future Leaders of Today and Tomorrow Sponsor
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