Guest Blogger, Paul Stock: Challenging Times Can Sharpen Focus
Posted:The recent budget wrangling and subsequent decisions can prompt the nonprofit sector in one of two directions; panic and complaining or driving us to greatness. I believe the sector by its very nature will choose the latter. My experience across the entire nonprofit sector has been that you are here to serve Delawareans and make […]
Grant-in-Aid Was Reinstated at 80%
Posted:Wow – it was an incredible week at the end of the Delaware Legislative session. A lot happened from Thursday to Sunday. Nonprofits across the state were present in force on Thursday and Friday.  Thank you to all of our members and their staff, board and clients who showed up to share the importance in […]
Nonprofits relieved after budget deal restores grant funds
Posted:by Karl Baker Employees and volunteers at Delaware nonprofits breathed a collective sigh of relief Monday after learning that state financial contributions to charities will be restored. Using a hodgepodge of marginal tax increases and budget cuts, lawmakers agreed to reverse the elimination of the state’s grant-in-aid program, which scores of Delaware nonprofits have come to rely […]
Nonprofits flood Legislative Hall, call for restoration of state grant money
Posted:by Karl Baker Scores of nonprofit-sector lobbyists and employees flooded into Legislative Hall in Dover on Thursday, expressing outrage over the elimination of Delaware’s chief charity-support program. The state’s ongoing budget battle claimed as a causality the popular grants-in-aid program on Wednesday after the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee could not find dollars to fund any programs beyond base […]
Nonprofit supporters: ‘Save Our Services’
Posted:by Craig Anderson DOVER — Teen mothers arrived cradling their babies who were months, if not weeks or days old. Some senior citizens needed assistance walking to the rally point, others moved slowly on their own. Approximately 200 Delawareans of all generations gathered at Legislative Hall to voice concerns about the looming elimination of nearly $46 […]
Huge cuts to education, nonprofits now on table
Posted:by Matthew Albright The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee has approved more than $27 million in budget cuts to Delaware public school districts and called for eliminating all state grants-in-aid for nonprofits. Those were only the biggest of the more than $88 million in cuts JFC voted on or announced Wednesday. Wednesday’s votes mean the General Assembly […]