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Youth Enrichment

Examples of Recent Grants

a group of youth performing a song on a stage.
Grant Awarded
Center for Structural Equity
to support Guns Down Mixtape Volume 3, a program providing at-risk youth with access to safe spaces, enrichment, and healing activities.
Grant Amount:
$25,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2022
a group sitting in a restorative healing circle.
Grant Awarded
Delaware Pacem In Terris
for training and curriculum development to implement restorative justice pilot programs with youth participating in its Arts for Peace programming.
Grant Amount:
$25,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2022
students hold a cake that reads "congratulations" for their participation in a playwright ceremony.
Grant Awarded
Delaware Theatre Company
to support the Delaware Young Playwrights Festival (DYPF) with curriculum and lesson plans to help students in grades 8-12 submit plays for review and...
Grant Amount:
$25,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
young children standing in front of a lemonade stand.
Grant Awarded
Edge for Tomorrow
Award Description: to support enhanced STEAM/SEL curriculum for a free after school program serving children in the Bellefonte area.
Grant Amount:
$20,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
students taking photos of nature
Grant Awarded
Four Youth
for the Beyond the Concrete: Documenting Nature program.
Grant Amount:
$30,000
Grant Cycle:
Spring 2023
an art display made of papertowel rollers and other arts and crafts sit on a workshop table.
Grant Awarded
Fractured Atlas (Fiscally Sponsoring Eyeball It)
to support new content, on-demand training and creation of living labs to expand Eyeball It!® (EI), an immersive art experience.
Grant Amount:
$25,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
children and adults running in a race
Grant Awarded
Girls on the Run Delaware
to support its 'Confidence Suite' life-skills curriculum, adding anti stress and anxiety lesson plans to its athletic training program.
Grant Amount:
$16,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
a person working on a car for vocational training
Grant Awarded
Green Beret Project
to sustain its mentoring program for at-risk adolescent youth in Wilmington, providing support along their journey toward becoming change agents.
Grant Amount:
$25,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
children playing with instructors outdoors at a park
Grant Awarded
Horizons at Tower Hill
to jump-start partner engagement for a tuition-free affiliate program run by Horizons National for children from communities impacted by inequities.
Grant Amount:
$30,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
Two children hold medals after participating in a running race.
Grant Awarded
I Can Do 26 Point 2 Kids
for general operating support for programs promoting healthy lifestyles and combating childhood obesity in underserved communities through physical...
Grant Amount:
$10,000
Grant Cycle:
Spring 2024
students and parents at a job fair.
Grant Awarded
Jobs for Delaware Graduates
to expand its in-school job preparation program by adding a coordinator in New Castle County focused on supporting children in foster care.
Grant Amount:
$10,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
doctors and health staff reading to a child in a patient room with their parent.
Grant Awarded
Reach Out and Read
to expand access to books and literacy guidance as a standard of care during regular well-child visits for children from birth and age five.
Grant Amount:
$25,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
students recording music in a studio room
Grant Awarded
Reed's Refuge Center
to support its multimedia after-school and summer programs offering graphic design, videography, photography, and audio visual production editing.
Grant Amount:
$25,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
children playing tennis with an instructor.
Grant Awarded
Rodney Street Tennis and Tutoring Association
for its summer and outreach program expansion.
Grant Amount:
$30,000
Grant Cycle:
Spring 2023
volunteers standing outside of a shelter
Grant Awarded
Stop the Violence Prayer Chain Foundation
to support general operations for its Life Skills program, tutoring, field trips and basic needs for children in high-risk communities.
Grant Amount:
$25,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
youth and counselors playing in a gymnasium sport activity
Grant Awarded
STRIVE
to develop and roll out a research based, engaging Coaches Certification program targeting social and emotional skills.
Grant Amount:
$35,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2022
children singing in a choir
Grant Awarded
The Choir School of Delaware
to support its summer camp program for grades 8-12 focused on academic enrichment, social justice and music theater.
Grant Amount:
$30,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
children seated in an auditorium for a play.
Grant Awarded
The Grand
for its Stages of Discovery program of school matinees that offers students an experience in live theatre and an enriching curriculum.
Grant Amount:
$30,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
a child sitting with a camp counselor
Grant Awarded
UrbanPromise Wilmington
to sustain its StreetLeader Program, providing youth aged 14-18 with work as counselors, teachers and role models to children.
Grant Amount:
$50,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
Young women participate in a dance routine.
Grant Awarded
YMCA of Delaware
to support teen programming at the Walnut Street YMCA including STEM, performing arts, and workforce development programs for teens.
Grant Amount:
$75,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
children posing in front of a sign
Grant Awarded
Nehemiah Gateway Community Development Corporation/Tennis Rocks Tutoring and Music Association
for its Junior Leadership Program/Evening Academic Program.
Grant Amount:
$15,000
Grant Cycle:
Spring 2023
a plant bed sits in an urban garden.
Grant Awarded
Upendo United Foundation
to support low-income, immigrant, and BIPOC children through a community hub for S.T.E.M. enrichment, mentorship, tutoring, gardening, and arts &...
Grant Amount:
$10,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
two persons holding vegetables in front of a Bright Spot farms van.
Grant Awarded
West End Neighborhood House
to support Bright Spot Farm, a paid agricultural and leadership training program for low-income high school aged youth.
Grant Amount:
$25,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
children singing in a choir
Grant Awarded
Wilmington Children's Chorus
to sustain and improve its Early Learner’s Music Program and Neighborhood Choir programs offered at Kingswood Community Center and ASPIRA Academy.
Grant Amount:
$25,000
Grant Cycle:
Fall 2023
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