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$350,000 in grants awarded from COVID-19 Strategic Response Fund

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Two college-age girls wearing Lori's Hands t-shirts while volunteer gardening
A $10,000 Community Needs Grant will help Lori’s Hands provide additional training and safety precautions for their volunteers.

The Delaware COVID-19 Strategic Response Fund’s Community Needs Grants program at the Delaware Community Foundation (DCF) this week awarded $350,000 to 30 nonprofit organizations providing services to communities throughout the state. This week’s grants are part of an 18-month community philanthropic effort to address Delaware’s emerging and evolving needs resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

These general operating grants support Delaware nonprofits’ efforts to re-open, return to normal operations, or expand operations as the effects of pandemic are ongoing. This is the final round of Strategic Response Fund grants; the DCF will continue to support nonprofits’ long-term response to the health and economic crisis through its regular grant programs.

Through the Strategic Response Fund, a partnership of the DCF and Philanthropy Delaware, local foundations, businesses and individuals donated more than $5 million to address community needs related to the pandemic. Through the Community Needs Grants and Vision Grants programs, the Fund has awarded grants to more than 150 Delaware nonprofits.

The grantees are:

  • Bernard and Ruth Siegel Jewish Community Center of Delaware – $10,000
  • Best Buddies in Delaware – $10,000
  • Cancer Support Community Delaware – $15,000
  • Clarifi – $10,000
  • Community Legal Aid Society, Inc. – $10,000
  • Culture Restoration Project, Inc. – $15,000
  • Delaware Children’s Museum – $10,000
  • Delaware College of Art and Design – $15,000
  • Delaware Contemporary – $10,000
  • Down Syndrome Association of Delaware – $15,000
  • Eyeball It! A fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas – $10,000
  • First State Squash – $15,000
  • Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County – $10,000
  • Harper’s Heart – $10,000
  • Jewish Family Services of Delaware – $10,000
  • Kind to Kids Foundation – $15,000
  • Latin American Community Center – $10,000
  • Lewes Public Library – $10,000
  • Lighthouse for Broken Wings – $15,000
  • Lori’s Hands, Inc. – $10,000
  • NCALL Research, Inc. – $10,000
  • Pursuit for Peace, Inc. – $10,000
  • REACH Riverside/Kingswood Community Center – $15,000
  • Rodney Street Tennis and Tutoring Association – $15,000
  • Sojourners’ Place, Inc. – $15,000
  • St. Michael’s School and Nursery, Inc. – $15,000
  • Sussex County Habitat for Humanity – $10,000
  • Teach for America-Delaware – $15,000
  • Teach a Person to Fish Society – $10,000

For more information, about the impact of the fund over the past year, visit delcf.org/strategic-response-fund-impact.