The Delia Foundation

The Delia Foundation is one Foundation with two projects.
Blu Village
Senior|Options|Solutions
Aging in Community - Co-Housing
Preventing SENIOR homelessness
Giving OPTIONS to remain independent & healthy
Creating supervised independent living housing SOLUTIONS

Delias Learning Center
AREAS OF FOCUS
Prevention: Buying, distributing sanitizing products for the Government-run orphanage, protections implemented for our staff and children who attend the center.
Sustenance: Provision of food and other essential supplies for the children attending Delia's Learning Center, and families whose livelihoods have been severely affected by the pandemic.
Sustainability: The continued care and guidance for special needs children attending our center; assisting them with emotional, physical, and mental wellness
Together with our partnerships, we can help replace institutions with foster care group homes and forever families, working with community-based services that provide children access to health, education and social care tailored to their individual needs.
Creating thriving childhoods full of hope, life, and love to lead to change on a larger scale.

Blu Village Project
Our strategies for creating a successful SOS Project is to utilize Peer Peer Fundraising, Create Fundraising events and apply for Grants; this will enable us to:
Supplement utility cost for residents in hot summer months - Residents will pay 30% of their annual income for housing plus utilities. (Average low-income senior on SS receives between $770-1200 a month.
Furniture for those in need (furniture donations will also be accepted)
Supplemental meals if needed (food donations will also be accepted)
Staffing cost for non-medical minimum supervision - The Delia Foundation will also utilize volunteers.
Staffing cost for senior navigator -This will allow The Delia Foundation to assist residents with resources needed to maintain a healthy lifestyle of independence.
Grants and individual donations will be used to purchase non-profit SIL (Supervised Independent Living) houses.

Delias Learning Center
Our strategies for creating a successful Delias Learning center is to utilize Peer Peer Fundraising, create Fundraising events and apply for Grants; this will enable us to:
Identify disabled orphan children's individual needs, educational, mental, and physical capabilities.
No child should be denied a family life because they are disabled. Institutionalization denies them special love and care.
Together with our partnerships, we can help prepare children living in institutions for schooling and forever homes. Offering community-based services that provide children access to health, education, and social care tailored to their individual needs.
Create strategic partnerships with Romanian and international charities to help deliver needed services for educational and social opportunities.

The Delia Foundation along with the Executive Director and three Executive Board Members from the community are committed to completing the Foundations Project goals. A creation of a committee is also in the process to help implement fundraising events and determine incremental goals.

With over 25 years in the social service industry our team includes strong child and senior advocates, social worker, business entrepreneur and a senior marketer. The Delia Foundation has a strong team of advocates.

The Delia Foundation was created in March of 2017 and in a few short months we have a strong team, we have begun peer to peer fundraising, we have our first fundraising event scheduled for late summer with more events to follow. We are working with the City of Phoenix Homeless department along with International partners for the Romania project. The Executive Director will be visiting Barlad Romania again this year to work in person with partnerships.