Insights & Ideas

Sheila Bravo – President and Chief Executive Director of Delaware Alliance for Nonprofit Advancement Sheila Bravo called strengthening Delaware’s nonprofit capacity to deliver quality services the biggest issue this year for the alliance, which has 400 members. To that end, she organized nonprofits to fight for grant-in-aid money in Dover last June. She said this […]

A recent survey conducted by the Delaware Alliance for Nonprofit Advancement indicates that when state funding is reduced nonprofits have no alternative but to reduce service hours to clients, eliminate employee benefits and lay off workers. The fiscal 2018 state budget reduced grant funding by more than $25 million, including $8.6 million of grant-in-aid dollars, […]

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 […]