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The Jessie Ball duPont Fund is a foundation that issues grants to organizations that received support from Jessie Ball duPont during the years 1960–1964. The official name is the Jessie Ball duPont Religious, Charitable and Educational Fund. According to their website, the Fund focuses on three areas: [17]
Portrait of Jessie Ball. When Jessie Ball was a teacher in San Diego, California, she used her savings to award college scholarships to needy students, eventually managing more than 100 scholarships. [4] After her marriage to Alfred I. duPont in 1921, she continued making charitable gifts, but on a larger scale. When her husband died in 1935 ...
The Jessie Ball duPont Center is a nonprofit complex in downtown Jacksonville, Florida.The building served as the main branch of the Jacksonville Public Library system from 1965 until 2005, when it was replaced by the current facility.
Sherry Magill is the former president of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, where she served for more than 25 years. She lives in Jacksonville.
The Nemours Foundation is a non-profit organization in Jacksonville, Florida, created through the last will and testament of philanthropist Alfred I. du Pont by his widow Jessie Ball duPont in 1936, and dedicated to improving the health of children. [1]
After a career in the family's gunpowder business, duPont turned his focus to charitable work. [5] [1] Upon his death in 1935, the Alfred I. duPont Charitable Trust was established. A year later, his widow Jessie Ball duPont, along with the other trustees, incorporated The Nemours Foundation in Jacksonville, Florida. [1]
The Epping Forest (also known as the Alfred I. duPont Estate) was a historic, 58-acre (230,000 m 2) estate in Jacksonville, Florida, United States where a luxurious riverfront mansion was built in the mid-1920s by industrialist Alfred I. du Pont and his third wife, Jessie Ball du Pont.
Gateway Retail Center LLC has been permitted to remodel the exterior façade for spaces 11, 12, and 12a at 5258 Norwood Ave. for a Burlington store.