Echelon Cares

Echelon Cares is a non-profit division of Echelon Custom Homes, LLC. It is an up and coming program that plans to give back to the community of coastal Sussex by teaming up with local businesses and residents of the beach area. Echelon Cares will reach out to public and private schools, programs for children, camps and families in need.

The Echelon Cares approach is to encourage anyone and everyone in the community to volunteer in some way. There are many opportunities to
build, paint, landscape, donate materials and more.

Join us today to make our community a better place.

PROJECT

Lewes Canalfront Park Playground

The Lewes Canalfront Park project began in 1999 when citizens of Lewes joined together to raise funds to build a beautiful canalfront park on historical property that lies along the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal. Ten years later, that dream has become a reality with the recent opening of the park.

Echelon and the Schell family have played a vital role in the park since its conception, from monetary donations to volunteerism and ending with Echelon and the entire Schell Brothers and Ocean Atlantic family coming together to construct the final portion of the park, with Chris and Preston Schell both hammering nails in the summer heat during the final days of construction.

← View the Lewes Canalfront Park Timelapse video

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Sussex Consortium

The Sussex Consortium is a public school, special education program operated in the Cape Henlopen School District and was created to meet the special needs of students with moderate to severe disabilities in Sussex County. Schell Brothers & Echelon Custom Homes partnered with the Sussex Consortium in April of 2008 for a complete makeover of the school’s functional program apartment that is used to teach special education students everyday life skills, such as cooking, washing dishes, washing and drying clothes, and personal hygiene.  Read the Cape Gazette article

Delivering Holiday Cheer

Every year during the holiday season Echelon Custom Homes partners up with local charities to help create Christmas for children from low income families by supplying food, toys and clothing.
In 2009 Echelon sponsored three special single mother families and helped them provide their children with all of the items from their wish lists as well as food and clothing items.