DFRC News
The Biggest Party Around kicks-off DFRC's Blue-Gold Hand-in-Hand Program for 2010!
On Sunday, March 7, 2010, DFRC held its Annual Blue-Gold Hand-In-Hand Party at Dover's Modern Maturity Center. This event kicks-off the Hand-In-Hand program for DFRC's Blue-Gold All*Star Football Game. More than 200 high school participants from accross the state came together with their Hand-In-Hand Buddies, children and young adults between 4 and 18 years of age with intellectual disabilties.
The High School Participants and the Buddies will come together as a group each month through June's 55th Annual DFRC Blue-Gold All*Star Football Game. The participants and buddies are also encouraged to meet individually between statewide events to promote awareness and understanding.
Ten photographers came to this year's Hand-in-Hand party and have shared their images for all to see in DFRC's Online Gallery. If you have any images from this event that you would like to share, please call DFRC at 302.454.2730.
The online images are courtesy of:
Shelly Carter •
Cindy Davis •
Terri Hitchens •
Jada Little
Jennie Mauk •
Marlon McNeill •
Jeff and Denny Schwartz
Alice and Samantha Shivock •
E. John Williams •
Guy VanderLek
All images © copyright 2010, DRFC, Inc. All rights reserved. Duplication or reuse for any purpose without express written consent from DFRC, Inc. is prohibited. For information, send email to info@dfrcfoundation.org or call 302.454.2730.
DFRC Announces 2010 Blue-Gold All*Star Buddies
The DFRC Blue-Gold All*Star Football Game Committee is proud to announce that Jessika Kulley and Chris Payne have been selected as the All*Star Buddies for the 55th Annual DFRC Blue-Gold All*Star Football Game. These two young adults will represent their respective teams at public events leading up to the game on June 19, 2010.
Jessika is 14 years old and will represent the Gold team as the Gold All*Star Buddy. She is from Seaford and attends Woodbridge High School.
Jessika has been matched with Justin Allen and Tori Suess, both Ambassadors from Sussex Tech, and football player Joe Casullo, also from Sussex Tech.
Chris will represent the Blue team as the Blue All*Star Buddy. He is 18 years old, and lives in Wilmington. He attends John Dickinson High School.
Chris’s participant matches are football player Mark Flakes and Cheerleader Ashley Rodick, both from Thomas McKean High School.
DFRC Announces 2010 Blue-Gold Player Rosters
The DFRC Blue-Gold All*Star Football Game Committee has announced the players for the 55th Annual DFRC Blue-Gold All*Star Football Game. The DFRC Blue-Gold All*Star Football Game showcases Delaware’s finest high school students who participate as football players, cheerleaders, band members and school ambassadors. The complete press release along with a roster for each squad’s 2010 football players can be viewed by clicking here.
The Blue and Gold squads consist of senior players chosen from across Delaware, representing the best student athletes. The first Blue-Gold Game was played on August 25, 1956. Today more than fifty public, private, parochial, vo-tech and charter schools across the entire state are invited to participate, helping to spread DFRC’s message of diversity and acceptance throughout their schools and communities
DFRC Announces 2009 Grant Awards
The Board of Trustees of DFRC, Inc. - Delaware Foundation Reaching Citizens with intellectual disABILITIES, and its Board of Beneficiaries have announced 2009 grant awards totaling $200,000. See the full listing here.
Each year, DFRC distributes proceeds from their fund raising events to programs that enrich the lives of Delawareans with intellectual disabilities. The funds are allocated by a committee of community volunteers and are used as grants and seed money to support programs throughout Delaware. Since 1956, more than $5 million has been distributed in Delaware by DFRC.
DFRC Holidazzle Volunteers "Dazzle" their way to
fund raising goal by Putting People First
Jennifer Abramczyk and Stacy Gatti, the volunteers who chaired DFRC's Holidazzle committee in 2009, have announced "The Dazzle" - an online fundraising effort to support DFRC -
has surpassed it's goal of raising $150,000.00.
"Each year, DFRC’s Holidazzle Committee has come to our communities and asked people to join us for a gala event and for your support to help us carry out our mission of enriching the lives of Delawareans with intellectual disabilities," said Abramczyk and Gatti. For 2009, the committee elected to forgo an "event" in order to raise as much as possible with minimum overhead.
"Donations are still welcome. Any one wishing to support DFRC through "The Dazzle" can simply point their web browsers to www.holidazzle.org."
The chairs were joined by co-chairs Antoinette "Toni" Nash and Laurie Wren, and by Holidazzle advisors Micki Edelsohn, Jodi Keller, Karyn Weaver and Barbara Loeslein in saying, "While we will missed seeing you at a Holidazzle gala last year, we are asking for your continued, steadfast support for those we help through Holidazzle."
To make a gift to The Dazzle - visit the web site, www.holidazzle.org, or call DFRC at (302) 454-2730.
Updated 3/9/2010
