Guest column: First Coast Relief Fund celebrates fifth anniversary
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As we warily start the 2021 hurricane season, we are also marking the fifth anniversary of the First Coast Relief Fund. It was around this time in 2016 when The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida, the Jessie Ball du Pont Fund, and United Way of Northeast Florida began asking: how would we as a community respond philanthropically to a local disaster?
At the time, the question was hypothetical.
Months later, Hurricane Matthew blew through Northeast Florida, and the question was no longer hypothetical. With only a preliminary outline of a proposed disaster fund, the three original collaborators, plus the Jewish Federation and Foundation of Northeast Florida and United Way of St. Johns County, managed to launch Florida’s First Coast Relief Fund now the First Coast Relief Fund over the course of one long weekend. Mayor Lenny Curry and the City of Jacksonville publicly supported the effort and hi
Organizations can receive general operating funds of $10,000 May 13, 2021
Delaware nonprofits are invited to apply for general operating grants of $10,000 from the Community Needs Grants Program at the Delaware Community Foundation.
The program is part of the Delaware COVID-19 Strategic Response Fund, a partnership of DCF and Philanthropy Delaware. In this round, the program – which has awarded more than $3.6 million in pandemic-related grants – will fund a mix of small and mid-sized organizations serving Delaware communities. Priority consideration will be given to smaller organizations and those with a board of directors that represents the diversity and demographics of the clients and communities they serve.