A survey conducted by the Delaware Alliance for Nonprofit Advancement (DANA) found that state funding cuts have forced nonprofits to reduce services. The fiscal year 2018 budget reduced grant funding to nonprofits by more than $25 million, including over $8 million in grant-in-aid dollars. Last fall, DANA reached out to nonprofit executives to better understand […]

As January ends, and the General Assembly goes out on Joint Finance Committee break, advocacy work is just getting under way. Following up on the Governor’s State of the State, Governor Carney presented his Recommended Budget for FY19 on January 25th. Of note is a recommendation of a 10% reinstatement of Grant-in-Aid funding. This is […]

The Delaware State Legislature returned to Dover on January 9th to start the second half of General Assembly 149.  Despite a slight upturn in DEFAC projections in December, concerns over the state’s ongoing fiscal health are overshadowing the development of the fiscal year 19 budget.  The sense is that there is a will among legislators […]

There’s a chill wind coming that could slice through cancer research, hospice care, job training initiatives, children’s literacy and arts programming, health care, food and shelter for the needy, and much more. Right now, Congress is weighing a tax reform package that – if it passes – would likely cost the nation’s nonprofits $14-$24 billion […]

It’s Giving Tuesday, and Delaware nonprofits say cuts to state funding have left them wanting, and proposed  federal tax overhaul legislation could have an adverse effect on private charitable donations. Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 at Manhattan’s 92nd street Y as a response to the consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.  The goal: […]