The giving of resources include the allocation of funds to the following organizations:
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John Klein - 652-6776
AIDS Delaware works to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS by providing comprehensive support services to clients and their families, advocacy for compassionate public policy, and prevention programs addressing unsafe sexual and drug use behaviors.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Liaison: Susan Sherk
Kendall Massett - 765-2875
The Brady Kohn Foundation educates the public on the life-saving potential of stem cells from umbilical cord blood and funds non-embryonic stem cell research.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Beth Duncan
Brandywine Pastoral Institute
Donna Strachan-Ledbetter - 651-0223
Brandywine Pastoral Institute is a non-profit interfaith center providing pastoral counseling, psychotherapy, and continuing education for ministry.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Gary Jolly
Rufus Miller - 656-5441
Camp Arrowhead enriches young people's relationships with one another, nature, and God. Campers develop their sense of adventure and spirituality as they participate in the activities, outdoor life, and community of camp.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Stephanie Grant
Cancer Support Community Delaware
Cynthia Dwyer - 995-2850
The Cancer Support Community Delaware - formerly Wellness Community Delaware - is part of an international non-profit organization with a primary mission of helping people affected by cancer enhance health and well-being through participation in a professional program of emotional support, education, and hope.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Connie Wissing
Cathedral Choir School of Delaware
Darryl Rowland - 654-6279
The Cathedral Choir School provides musical education to children and youth of Wilmington and the surrounding region. Choristers range in age from seven to eighteen and spend at least seven hours a week in choral training, free piano lessons, performances, and travel. Music is used as a positive intervention in the lives of youth.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Ben Osbun
Christina Cultural Arts Center
Raye Jones Avery - 652-0101
The mission of CCAC, a premier community school of the arts, is to make affordable arts education programs accessible to youth from low- to moderate-income families in a safe environment conducive to learning.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Tomoko Werbe
Connecting Generations
Rich Kapolka - 656-2122
Creative Mentoring provides services to help children and adults lead powerful, fulfilling, and self-directed lives by bringing older or more experienced people together with those who need a mentor.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Jim Patton
ContactLifeline, Inc.
Carl Burke - 761-9800
The mission of ContactLifeline is to keep people alive and safe, to help them work through crises, and to connect them with relevant community resources.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Nancy Chesser
Lucy O'Donnell - 764-9740
DAPI provides services to support the educational development of pregnant and parenting teens and their families.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Stephanie Grant
Delaware Futures, Inc.
Denise Tolliver - 652-8609
Delaware Futures provides academic, social, motivational support, and cultural enrichment that empowers economically disadvantaged high school students to recognize and fulfill their unrealized potential to become matriculated college students.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Athena Jolly
Delaware Guidance Services for Children & Youth, Inc.
Bruce Kelsey - 652-3948
Delaware Guidance Services exists to provide quality mental health services for children, youth, and their families. We believe that all children have a right to good mental health and should have access to quality therapeutic care, regardless of their ability to pay for such services.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Glenn Sherk
First State School Program
Robert Laskowski- 428-5858
First State School offers medical, educational, and counseling services to children with chronic illnesses who cannot function in a traditional school setting.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Gary Jolly
Friendship House, Inc.
William Perkins - 652-8133
Friendship House is a non-profit, Christian organization committed to making a difference in the lives of homeless and impoverished people in Wilmington.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Beth Duncan
Garage Youth Center
Patti Olenik - 610-444-6464
This mission of the Garage Youth Center is to help local youth reach their potential scholastically, emotionally, and spiritually by partnering with local schools, churches, community members, and organizations to provide support, programs, and relationships for our students. Our motivation is to participate in Jesus Christ’s call to love and serve the community.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Diane Mateson
Habitat for Humanity
Kevin Smith - 652-0365
Habitat for Humanity develops and empowers low-income individuals and communities through the construction of simple, decent homes by involving volunteers and community organizations.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Lucinda Laird
Interfaith Community Housing of Delaware, Inc.
Gary Pollio - 652-3991
Interfaith Housing's mission is to make available safe, decent, sanitary, and affordable housing to low- and moderate-income citizens of Delaware.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Tom Scott
Kuumba Academy Charter School
Yamil Sanchez - 472-6450
Kuumba Academy is an innovative learning environment focused on the whole child in grades kindergarten through 5th grades.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Connie Wissing
La Comunidad Hispania
Margarita Querlat Mirkil - 610-444-4545
La Comunidad Hispania strives to improve the quality of life, health, and well being of low-income Hispanics and other underserved people through advocacy and bilingual programs in healthcare, education, and social services.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Barbara Cairns
Latin American Community Center
Maria Matos - 655-7338
Latin American Community Center advocates for and assists the Latino Community by offering resources and programs that promote empowerment and an enhanced quality of life while celebrating diverse cultures.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Kyra Marcin
Limen House
Reginald Irby - 652-7969
Limen House helps chemically dependent people to develop personal responsibility and learn the tools to maintain abstinence, enabling them to return to society as productive and contributing members.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Didi Lovett
Literacy Volunteers Serving Adults
Cynthia Shermeyer - 658-5624
Literacy Volunteers helps adults improve literacy skills and realize their potential to be confident, self-sufficient, and productive employees and community memebers.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Lucinda Laird
Pathways to Wholeness
Benita Allen - 832-6240
Pathways to Wholeness provides low-income women with educational programming and coaching support aimed at helping them reach their full potential to live more successful, self-sufficient, and fulfilling lives.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Jinni Butz
Practice Without Pressure
Jackie Armstrong - 832-2800
Practice Without Pressure helps people with disabilities receive quality medical, dental, and personal care with dignity and respect.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Joe Stoeckle
Prestige Academy Charter School
Jack Perry - 762-3240
Prestige Academy prepares young men in grades 5 through 8 for admission and success in demanding college preparatory high schools.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Ben Osbun
Reading ASSIST Institute
Marilyn Monahan - 425-4080
Reading ASSIST Institute helps the struggling reader learn how to read, write, and spell through an accredited, multisensory, research-based approach.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Jinni Butz
Rodney Street Tennis and Tutoring Association
Tina Tharp - 761-9290
Rodney Street Tennis and Tutoring teaches at-risk minority youth from inner-city Wilmington and New Castle County the concepts of success, self-worth, and community participation through tennis instruction, tutoring, and anger management courses.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Stephanie Grant
Serviam Girls Academy
Diana Neary - 651-9700
Serviam Girls Academy is a faith-based middle school that empowers young women in diverse backgrounds to become agents of transformation in society by providing a college preparatory education in an atmosphere of respect and responsibility.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Kyra Marcin
St. Michael's School and Nursery, Inc.
Helen Riley - 656-3389
St. Michael's School and Nursery is committed to the growth and support of children's development in mind, body, character, and spirit. They provide early education and child care in a nurturing, Christian environment.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Connie Wissing
STEHM, Inc.
Kathy Bevans - 655-2503
Short-Term Emergency Housing Ministry, or STEHM, provides short-term emergency housing for needy or displaced persons through their motel ministry. They also provide long-term transitional housing which fosters the goal of independent living through counseling and life skills in a safe, supportive environment.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Stephanie Grant
Sunday Breakfast Mission
Thomas Laymon - 652-8314
The Sunday Breakfast Mission serves the homeless, addicted, and impoverished through Christ-centered programs that meet their spiritual, social, and physical needs. Their primary goal is to restore people to right relationships with God, their families, and society.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Betsy Field
Valerie Marek - 655-3953
SOAR's mission is to provide professional psychotherapy services to survivors of sexual abuse and their families.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Diane Mateson
Diane Brisiel - 655-1153
TRIAD ministers to alcoholics and drug addicts and their families by providing individual counseling, information, referral, emergency financial assistance, and education.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Joe Stoeckle
Trustees of Color
Cynthia Primo Martin - 654-3907
Trustees of Color is a unique resource, designed to share opportunities, build relationships, and ultimately strengthen Delaware’s nonprofit sector by connecting experienced and talented people of color with nonprofit organizations seeking new leadership.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Barbara Cairns
UrbanPromise
Rob Prestowitz - 425-5502
UrbanPromise equips children and young adults with skills for academic achievement, life management, spiritual growth, and Christian leadership.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Betsy Field
West Center City Early Learning Center, Inc.
Faith Boddy - 656-0485
West Center City Early Learning Center is an educational preschool facility that provides a nurturing environment that enhances children's intellectual, physical, and emotional development.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Didi Lovett
Wilmington Senior Center Susan Getman - 651-3460
Wilmington Senior Center provides life-sustaining and life-enriching services, opportunities, and partnerships that have a positive impact on older adults' physical, mental, and social well-being.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Tomoko Werbe
Ginny Marino - 655-0039
The YWCA has a commitment to community service, focusing on the special needs of women and their families by providing services to help families become self-sufficient and more productive.
Volunteer Opportunities?
Outreach Committee Liaison: Susan Sherk
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