Project: Farm Incubator Module, $866,000
Purpose: To create an incubator farm location on Delaware State University prperty to enable the university to expand its programs and reach to often under-resourced audiences interested in farming, including socially disadvantaged populations, Native American, African American, Hispanic, Asian, and veteran populations.
Recipient: DE Dept. of Agriculture & Delaware State University
Location: Smyrna, Delaware
Project: Biotechnology, Chemistry, and Materials Science Research Lab Equipment, $2,475,000
Purpose: To renovate 40-year-old laboratory space to establish 14 highly modular, state of the art wet laboratories able to accommodate high-growth biotechnology, chemistry, and materials science companies.
Recipient: DE Innovation Space
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Equipment for Gene Therapy Production Site – NIIMBL, $5,000,000
Purpose: To procure and set up a suite of scale-up biopharmaceutical manufacturing equipment for a gene therapy production site at the University of Delaware’s NIIMBL facility.
Recipient: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Project: DE River and Estuary Ecosystem Data Gathering Initiative, $356,000
Purpose: To facilitate permit application and review processes, thus speeding infrastructure construction and maintenance at waterfront facilities.
Recipient: Maritime Exchange for the DE River and Bay
Location: Port of Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Wireless Camera Network System, $600,000
Purpose: To fund components of a constitutionally conscious city-wide camera system to support the quality of life in Dover.
Recipient: City of Dover Police Department
Location: Dover, Delaware
Project: Equipment, $670,000
Purpose: To fund instrumentation and equipment to enhance forensic testing in Delaware.
Recipient: DE Division of Forensic Science
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Space Education Excellence for Delaware, $900,000
Purpose: To engage students at various levels and provide them with unique, hands-on experience with advanced scientific instruments and spacecraft components at both the University of Delaware and Delaware State University.
Recipient: University of Delaware & Delaware State University
Location: Newark and Dover, Delaware
Project: Delaware Coast Protection – Construction, $150,000
Purpose: To mitigate the negative shoreline impact of the Indian River Inlet jetties by pumping sand across the inlet to restore the natural flow of sand from south to north, addressing beach erosion and coastal storm hazard threats to the highway
Recipient: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Purpose: Slaughter Beach, Delaware
Project: Cedar Creek, DE – Operation and Maintenance, $1,110,000
Purpose: To combine the maintenance dredging of Mispillion River entrance channel and the adjoining Cedar Creek to maximize cost savings and operational efficiency.
Recipient: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Location: Slaughter Beach, Delaware
Project: Center for Financial Inclusion and Technology Innovation, $1,000,000
Purpose: Create a new startup incubator co-located with the Delaware SBDC that will incubate 10 fintech startups per year focused on improving the financial health of underrepresented communities.
Recipient: Delaware Technology Park
Location: Newark, Delaware
Project: Coalition for Translational Entrepreneurship, $2,250,000
Purpose: Support the creation of a new center that will translate science and engineering advancements at three universities in Delaware into successful businesses.
Recipient: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Project: Nonprofit Business Accelerator, $810,000
Purpose: Support the creation of an accelerator program for small, growing nonprofits in Delaware and would provide those nonprofits with training, resources, and tools to overcome obstacles that typically prevent such organizations from achieving sustainability, scale, and success
Recipient: DE Alliance for Nonprofit Advancement
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Small Business New Markets Opportunity Program, $181,000
Purpose: Provide minority- and women-owned businesses with training and technical support to identify, pursue, and secure corporate contracts and government procurement opportunities.
Recipient: True Access Capital
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Wilmington Small Business Support through WilmingtonMADE, $75,000
Purpose: Enhance an online directory that promotes businesses in the City of Wilmington and will allow the applicant to assist 70 additional small businesses in their marketing efforts, with an emphasis on women- and minority-owned businesses.
Recipient: Wilmington Alliance
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Delmarva Oasis Strategic Conservation Planning, $500,000
Purpose: Develop a region-wide conservation plan of restoration projects and easements with local stakeholders and government entities. Will target federal, state, local, and non-governmental conservation funding to the highest regional conservation priorities in the Delmarva in the face of the impacts of climate change.
Recipient: Eastern Shore Land Conservancy
Location: Delmarva Peninsula, Delaware
Project: Nanticoke Indian Museum Revitalization, $500,000
Purpose: Completely restore 100-year-old structure that is on the National Register of Historic Places, including roof, siding, windows, fascia, trims, and doors on the exterior as well as lighting, electrical, plumbing, restrooms, floors, HVAC, furnishings, and display cases in the interior.
Recipient: Nanticoke Indian Association
Location: Millsboro, Delaware
Project: Statewide Air Quality Study, $440,000
Purpose: Study air pollution across the state, especially in communities with histories of environmental injustice, and develop data-informed policy recommendations for pollution mitigation and expanded monitoring.
Recipient: DE Natural Resources & Environmental Control
Location: Statewide, Delaware
Project: Wastewater Treatment Plant Headworks Replacement, $2,500,000
Purpose: Replace 60-year-old parts at the Seaford wastewater treatment plant that will increase flow and allow it to handle the 2020 addition of sewer flows of Blades, Bridgeville, and Greenwood.
Recipient: City of Seaford
Location: Seaford, Delaware
Project: Sewer Interceptor Rehabilitation, $3,060,000
Purpose: Replace a mile and a half of 100-year-old, underground combined sewage-stormwater pipe at Prices Run, preventing degradation of surface water quality due to sewage overflow and catastrophic infrastructure failure.
Recipient: City of Wilmington
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Sewer-Stormwater Separation, $4,000,000
Purpose: Build a new, separate stormwater collection system that will carry rainwater runoff directly to the new South Wilmington Wetland Park, preventing sewage from contaminating ground water during flood events. This improvement will also increase resilience to flooding in the Southbridge neighborhood.
Recipient: City of Wilmington
Location: Wilmington,
Project: Delaware River Estuary Mussels for Clean Water Hatchery, $1,000,000
Purpose: Construct a 10,000 square-foot mussel hatchery facility along the tidal Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, PA. Once hatched, the mussels will be transported to ponds in New Castle County, DE to mature, and will ultimately be deployed across the Delaware Estuary to enhance water quality, improve habitat resilience and prevent soil erosion.
Recipient: Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Inc.
Location: Winterthur, Delaware
Project: Water Main Extension and New Well, $1,800,000
Purpose: Replace 0.92 mile of water main on North State Street to prevent water discoloration and improve fire protection. It will also install a new well at Silver Lake to add redundancy to the city’s water supply and improve fire protection.
Recipient: City of Dover
Location: Dover, Delaware
Project: Plug Into the Grid — Skills Training for Unemployed and Underemployed Workers, $1,128,000
Purpose: Support technological upgrades to Goodwill’s three employment centers in each of Delaware’s three counties, with a view to providing digital resources and skills training for unemployed and underemployed Delawareans.
Recipient: Goodwill of DE and Delaware County
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Community Health Worker Certification Program, $65,000
Purpose: Allow New Castle County’s National Health Corps members to complete a Community Health Worker certification at Delaware Technical Community College.
Recipient: New Castle County
Location: New Castle, Delaware
Project: Facilities and Equipment – New DE Hospital for the Chronically Ill, $10,000,000
Purpose: To support the construction of a new Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill. This new facility will be a 150-bed long term care facility and the project will address long-term safety and environmental concerns with the facility.
Recipient: DE Dept. of Health and Social Services
Location: New Castle, Delaware
Project: Facilities and Equipment – Capital Improvements, $463,000
Purpose: To support capital improvements to the Limen Recovery + Wellness men’s sober living residence, which will provide a safe and secure living environment for individuals receiving treatment. This facility houses 16 men at a time and provides mental health counseling, case management services, and life skills training to men who are in recovery from addiction.
Recipient: Limen Recovery + Wellness
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Facilities and Equipment – NIIMBL, $10,000,000
Purpose: To procure and set up a suite of scale-up biopharmaceutical manufacturing equipment for a gene therapy production site at the University of Delaware’s NIIMBL facility.
Recipient: University of Delaware
Location: Newark, Delaware
Project: Mental Health and Supportive Services, $250,000
Purpose: To expand the mental health programming provided by the Boys and Girls Clubs of Delaware to more families, including providing trauma-informed care and group-counseling sessions.
Recipient: Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Mobile Behavioral Health Care Services, $757,000
Purpose: To support the efforts to outfit a van as a mobile health clinic, which will provide medical and behavioral health care services to populations up and down Delaware that have historically had barriers to health care.
Recipient: Brandywine Counseling and Community Services, Inc.
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Pediatric Mental and Behavioral Health Training Program, $1,500,000
Purpose: To increase Delaware’s pediatric behavioral health workforce through a mental and behavioral health training program. This program will provide master’s level pediatric therapists with the training and hours needed to become licensed.
Recipient: Nemours Children’s Hospital
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Restoration Now Expansion — Services for Survivors of Trafficking, $193,000
Purpose: To expand the Salvation Army’s Restoration Now program, which provides comprehensive services to victims of human trafficking. These funds will meet increased demand for these services and allow the Salvation Army to serve more victims.
Recipient: The Salvation Army, Delaware Command
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Mentorship Initiatives for Underrepresented Populations, $603,000
Purpose: To support Delaware State University’s efforts to provide mentorship and training opportunities for underserved populations.
Recipient: Delaware State University
Location: Dover, Delaware
Project: Armed Services Whole Blood Processing Laboratory – East Replacement: Planning and Design, $350,000
Purpose: To replace the Armed Services Whole Blood Processing Laboratory – East to support the expedited transfer of blood and blood products to U.S. troops serving abroad from Dover Air Force Base.
Recipient: Dover Air Force Base
Location: Dover, Delaware
Project: Affordable Homeownership Development, $600,000
Purpose: To create 8 new affordable home-owner occupied homes in Downtown Dover, Delaware.
Recipient: Central Delaware Habitat for Humanity
Location: Dover, Delaware
Project: Affordable Housing Development, $4,525,000
Purpose: Support the construction of 20 affordable homes in Newark and 13 affordable homes in Wilmington for low-income families to purchase, as well as the demolition of three homes in Wilmington to make space for future affordable housing development.
Recipient: Habitat for Humanity of New Castle County
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Bennett Street Housing Revitalization Project, $1,000,000
Purpose: To construct new affordable housing units in the East Side of Wilmington.
Recipient: Todmorden East Foundation
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Capital Improvements to the Hope Center and Transportation Support, $750,000
Purpose: Make capital improvements and support the supply budget of the Hope Center, which provides temporary emergency noncongregate shelter for people experiencing homelessness.
Recipient: New Castle County
Location: New Castle, Delaware
Project: East Side Re-development and Renovations of Properties, $280,000
Purpose: To make capital improvements to affordable housing units in the East Side community of Wilmington.
Recipient: The Challenge Program
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: STEM Hub Construction in Riverside, $3,000,000
Purpose: To construct a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) hub in the Riverside area of Wilmington, Delaware to address educational, workforce development, and health monitoring needs in the community.
Recipient: First Community Foundation
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Home Base – Life Lines IV Housing for Homeless Youth, $1,090,000
Purpose: Support the acquisition and renovation of 2 apartment complexes with a total of 7 units that will be used to provide permanent supportive housing and transitional housing for unaccompanied youth.
Recipient: West End Neighborhood House
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Infant and Toddler Center Final Costs and Renovations, $3,500,000
Purpose: Support the construction of a playground and parking facilities at LACC’s Infant and Toddler Center, which is currently under construction. In addition, this project would support critical maintenance at LACC’s two existing community services buildings.
Recipient: Latin American Community Center
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Lower Hilltop Equitable Housing Initiative, $3,000,000
Purpose: Acquire 45 units of housing, stabilize 25 deteriorating units, create 15 green spaces, and clean 15 alleyways. Once units are acquired or rehabbed, they will be sold to developers with an enforceable agreement that the developer must sell or rent them to low-income individuals.
Recipient: Wilmington Neighborhood Conservancy Land Bank
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Maxwell Estates, $2,300,000
Purpose: To preserve and rehabilitate the West Street Manor (32 housing units) and the West Street Annex (28 housing units) into a 60 unit project. Maxwell Estates is a fully subsidized USDA Rural Development project serving the elderly and disabled population.
Recipient: Milford Housing Development Corporation
Location: Milford, Delaware
Project: Owens Manor and Queen Manor Improvements, $1,000,000
Purpose: Make capital improvements to existing affordable housing properties for senior residents in Dover.
Recipient: Dover Housing Authority
Location: Dover, Delaware
Project: Real Estate Property Acquisition and Redevelopment, $6,825,000
Purpose: Purchase five blighted properties in the Riverside neighborhood of Wilmington and redevelop two of the five into a fresh food market and a Town Green – a central public space within the Riverside community. The remaining three properties will be redeveloped in the future.
Recipient: REACH Riverside Development Corporation
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Solomon’s Court Phase II Housing, $2,000,000
Purpose: Create 12 affordable and accessible units as well as street level commercial space for small businesses.
Recipient: Be Ready Development Corporation
Location: New Castle, Delaware
Project: Building Renovation and Expansion Project, $1,000,000
Purpose: To make capital improvements and expand the St. Michael’s School and Nursery.
Recipient: St. Michael’s School and Nursery, Inc.
Location:Wilmington, Delaware
Project: Strategic Land Acquisition Project, $600,000
Purpose: To acquire building lots for affordable homeownership opportunities throughout Sussex County, Delaware.
Recipient: Sussex County Habitat for Humanity
Location: Georgetown, Delaware
Project: Tidewater Park Playground, $938,000
Purpose: Install accessible playground equipment in Tidewater Park in Laurel, Delaware.
Recipient: Town of Laurel
Location: Laurel, Delaware
Project: Villa Maria at the Brandywine Affordable Housing, $3,000,000
Purpose: Support the development of 74 units of one-bedroom affordable senior housing for low- and very low-income seniors in the Old Brandywine Village area.
Recipient: Ministry of Caring, Inc.
Location: Wilmington, Delaware