Cultivating philanthropy, transforming community
In its first major round of grant funding, The Foundation for Delaware County announced $1,165,000 in awards through 46 grants to 42 area non-profits. Grants were awarded in the areas of children’s health and nutrition, maternal health services, preventive health care, substance use including the opioid epidemic, preparing high school students for post-graduate success, hospice and home care, and strengthening the non-profit community.
A full list of grants awarded this fall can be found here.
We are excited to present our first Report to the Community for Fiscal Year 2017-18 and are very grateful to all of our founding donors and partners who are helping us to move Delaware County forward.
Join us on Tuesday, Jan. 8 at a Delaware County Estate Planning Council dinner at the Springfield Country Club. Suzanne Friday, Senior Counsel and Vice President of Legal Affairs at the Council on Foundations, will discuss several common ethical dilemmas that professional advisers face when counseling clients, particularly when it comes to charitable giving. Suzanne will guide the audience through analysis of each and discuss how the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct apply in these situations.
Gratitude for the care provided by a physician friend inspired Thomas McCabe to create a $50,000 trust in 1973 in honor of Dr. William Erb Sr. and his wife, Sally. McCabe was the president and CEO of Scott Paper Co.
Today, the fund is worth more than $1 million. It supports scholarships for medical students and funds to beautify the memorial garden at Asana Hospice in Ridley Park.
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