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    Adami Fund for Innovation Focuses on Enhanced Accessibility

    Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore has announced the sixth annual “Bill Adami Fund for Innovation” award will be used to fund two projects initiated by Easterseals staff to improve accessibility within the organization. The Bill Adami Fund for Innovation was created in memory of Easterseals late President/CEO, William J. Adami, who passed away in 2013.

  • Adami Fund for Innovation Focuses on Keeping Memories Alive

    Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore has announced that the fifth annual “Bill Adami Fund for Innovation” award will be used to pilot a “It’s Never 2 Late” Technology System” for the adult day program at Easterseals in Georgetown. This technology is expected to be especially beneficial for Easterseals participants with dementia because the content is designed by experts and can be individualized for each person to help reduce anxiety, engage their focus, and stimulate their memories.
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    Easterseals, Thrilled to Take the Trip with Kenzie

    Experiencing the joy and unconditional love that is Kenzie Pickett, of Lincoln, DE, is one of the world’s great gifts to offer. She can find a friend in any room and knows who needs a hug the most. Kenzie is a three-year-old girl full of sass, spirit and who also happens to have Down Syndrome. Kenzie is meeting her milestones with Easterseals by her side every step of the way.
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    The Tatnall School Early Childhood Program Presents Easterseals a Check Following a Successful Hop-N-ing event

    Recently, The Tatnall School presented Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore with a check following their fundraising efforts through their “Hop-N-ing” program to raise funds to benefit local people with disabilities. This year, Easterseals and The Tatnall School celebrated their 18-year partnership of spreading ability awareness to early childhood students. The students raised money to support Easterseals services for local families based on the number of times they hopped up and down, with contributors pledging money per hop. Since its inception in 2000, the “Hop-N-ing” event at The Tatnall School has raised over $38,000 for Easterseals.

  • Easterseals Receives Grant from Bank of America to Promote a More Inclusive Community

    Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore, a local non-profit organization dedicated to creating an inclusive community through innovative services for 75 years, has received a $25,000 grant from Bank of America. The grant will help Easterseals improve economic mobility and promote independence in the lives of people of all ages with disabilities, seniors, and their families.

  • Easterseals Receives $30,000 Grant from Bank of America

    Easterseals of Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore announced that it has received a $30,000 grant from Bank of America for its Supported Employment services, which help individuals with intellectual disabilities work in the community.
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    Easterseals Receives $25,000 Grant from Discover Bank

    Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore recently received a $25,000 grant through Discover Bank to support its Supported Employment program – a program that opens the door to meaningful work and competitive wages in the community for adults with intellectual disabilities, while providing employers with dedicated, productive employees.
  • Group of activists stands on the stairs at legislative hall, smiling to camera

    Easterseals Rallies at Leg Hall

    Easterseals was out in full force at the rally last week to support HB 104, the Michael McNesby Full Funding for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities. We are asking the State to keep its promise and approve $9 million in state funding as a first-year commitment to fully fund disability services.
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    Easterseals Participants Honored for Volunteering at Habitat for Humanity

    A group of participants from Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore’s day program for adults with intellectual disabilities recently received the “Community Partnership Group of the Year Award” for 2019 from Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore in New Castle County for having the most volunteer hours.
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    Easterseals Introduces 2022 Walk With Me Salisbury Ambassador

    Easterseals Delaware & Maryland’s Eastern Shore is delighted to announce that Conor Pellinger, of Berlin, MD, will serve as this year’s ambassador for their inaugural “Walk With Me & 5K Fun Run Salisbury” event. It will be held on Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 9 a.m., at the Salisbury Elks Lodge #817 located at 401 Churchill Avenue, Salisbury, MD.
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    Easterseals Introduces 2021 Volleyball Ambassador

    When most young adults graduate from high school, they typically know which direction they are going to head, whether it be attending college or jumping right into a job. When Mikayla graduated from high school, she and her mom, Michele, knew exactly where to turn and it was the place where she began many years before -- Easterseals!