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Foundation for the Future of Delaware County (FFDC) Disaster Relief Fund

At a Glance

  • Assisting in providing critical direction before, during and after a crisis.
  • Providing grants to nonprofits serving those needs
  • Seeking donors to help our community during crisis

About Us

The Foundation for the Future of Delaware County Disaster Relief Fund provides an opportunity for the public to give with the reassurance their donations will be used to quickly move resources to where they are most urgently needed in their own community, particularly toward needs not being met by existing non-profit, local, state and federal programs.

Mission

Assisting in providing critical direction before, during and after a crisis to coordinate services and ensure that unmet needs are address, financial assistance is provided, and knowledge and resources are shared with local residents.

Basic Information

Phone

563-880-3816

Address

Director

Amanda Diers

Director Email

ffdc@dbqfoundation.org

Success Story

One person. One vision. One county united.

As with most missions of the heart, this one starts with a vision.  

This is the vision of one nurse at Regional Medical Center in Delaware County.  Through her work in healthcare, Mindi Jackson began to see the needs of her and her colleagues’ at-risk patients emerge as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.  She also saw the shortage of supply of much needed face masks in the health care environments across Delaware County.  When volunteering to help at the school to help distribute free meals when the school system closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she began to see depth of need to provide nourishment for families.  In one week alone, West Delaware School system gave out 3,400 meals.  Shortages of everyday items like lunch bags were now at an all time high.  

Mindi created the Delaware County Pay It Forward COVID19 – 2020 Facebook page and her vision to holistically "fill in the gaps" in resources became a reality.  She began to request sewers for face masks, groceries, paper products, and hand sanitizer for those identified in need through healthcare providers and Parents as Teachers.  She contacted local pharmacies and restaurants that could order lunch size bags from their industries for the WD school system so that they could continue providing free meals.  These are only a few of the stories of needs now being met because of her vision.  

As we see time and time again in our communities, the response to help was overwhelming so she partnered with First Lutheran Church of Manchester to set up a Pay It Forward task force and inventory/distribution center. 

The effort to combine forces and work together made this effort successful.

Fund Details

Fund Name

Foundation for the Future of Delaware County (FFDC) Disaster Relief Fund

Year Founded

2020

Here for you. Sheila Kramer Tjaden Director of Affiliate Foundations sheila@dbqfoundation.org 319-480-4335

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Foundation for the Future of Delaware County (FFDC) Disaster Relief Fund