$3.2 million awarded to more than 150 nonprofits since fund launched March 18
The Delaware COVID-19 Strategic Response Fund at the Delaware Community Foundation Friday awarded $194,500 to 12 nonprofit organizations providing services to communities throughout the state.
Friday’s grants will address a broad range of community needs during the pandemic.
For nearly three months, Habitat for Humanity closed their ReStores statewide and turned away volunteers to comply with COVID-19 restrictions. People who would spend every week helping build homes had to be told they could no longer give back to their communities.
The Division of Public Health (DPH) and the Healthy Communities Delaware (HCD) initiative announced on Tuesday collaborations with several communities throughout Delaware that have been significantly impacted by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Energize Delaware announced this week that the Empowerment Grant Program (EGP) funded by the Exelon Merger for Delmarva Power Customers in Delaware is awarding $500,000 to Habitat for Humanity (HFH) of New Castle County. In its application, HFH of New Castle County proposed working with their Central Delaware and Sussex County partner Habitat agencies and their ReStore locations across the state on an innovative program to provide improved efficiency, reliability and energy savings to Delaware income-qualified residents.
Desiree Leguizamo of Newark was renting a home when her landlord told her the house was going to be sold. Leguizamo was forced to find a new living situation quickly for her and her two daughters. Habitat for Humanity is making sure she doesn’t have to worry about this kind of situation again.
Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore has announced they have moved their annual Easterseals/CAI Volleyball Challenge to August 21-22. The event will still take place at the 76ers Fieldhouse in Wilmington. The Volleyball Challenge raises funds for Easterseals which provides services, education, outreach, and advocacy so that people living with autism and other disabilities can live, learn, work and play in the community.
Recently, Easterseals had to make the difficult decision to temporarily suspend some of their programs, making fund-raising more critical, a release noted.
Davian Higgins-Reeves may not have been in her new home for the holidays, but she’s got its keys in her hands.
She and her family will be living in a new Simonds Gardens home after receiving the keys during a home dedication ceremony by Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County.
Several formerly stalled Wilmington Housing Partnership projects on the city’s East Side may move forward in the hands of Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County.
Twelve new homes will be built on both sides of Bennett Street on Wilmington’s East Side, continuing a pattern of revitalization in the area led by Habitat for Humanity and the City of Wilmington.
Ground was broken for five of the homes Friday morning. Across the street, seven more units are partially completed. They were started in 2015 but not completed by the Wilmington Housing Partnership.
How to reduce crime, improve the quality of life and revitalize Wilmington’s Eastside is a conundrum that has plagued the city for years.
With the public safety elements that accompany the presence of vacant and abandoned properties tossed in the mix, community policing seems an obvious and necessary component of the neighborhood revitalization solution.