This project is the antecedent to the Sorority's current emphasis on career and employment counseling for young women and men.
What is the Job Opportunity Project ?
100
This program allows chapters to develop a local project that would "tell some Black historical story" to the public.
What is the African-American Cultural Literacy Project ?
100
This program established a home for children who became orphans due to the outbreak of HIV/AIDS. The project was funded by donations from the 45th and 46th National Conventions.
What is "The Delta House" in Mbabane, Swaziland ?
100
This program is a campaign to elevate awareness of health issues that seriously impact African-American women, including heart disease, breast cancer, and diet and nutrition.
What is Summit V ?
100
The acronym DREF is an abbreviation for what organization.
What is Delta Research and Educational Foundation ?
200
The aim of this program is to assist Black entrepreneurs to achieve a product "self-sufficiency level" in business.
What is Adopt-A-Black Business ?
200
This project was established in 1973 and was one of the first nationally coordinated efforts to help the functionally illiterate.
What is Delta Right to Read Project ?
200
This project's mission is to promote and sustain holistic early childhood education centers in disadvantaged communities.
What is the TREE Project (Training Resources in Early Education) ?
200
This initiative confronts the high incidence of obesity among women and challenges chapters to provide data on measurable goals.
What is the Lifestyle Change Initiative ?
200
This type of action encourages members to aggressively address voter education, registration and mobilization.
What is Social Action ?
300
This initiative is to help members of the Sorority spread financial education throughout their local communities and build wealth and financial security.
What is Financial Fortitude ?
300
This event was first held in 1992. Both Big Sister Judith Jamison and Big Sister Nikki Giovanni attended.
What is Delta Youth Days in the Nation's Capital ?
300
On December 1, 2009, Delta added its voice to this World Wide Campaign.
What is the World AIDS Day ?
300
This program focuses on the 3 important aspects of healthy living and encourages behavioral lifestyle changes to reach maximum potential.
What is Healthy Lifestyle: The Total Woman: Mind, Body, and Spirit ?
300
This group monitors legislation at the federal, state and local levels and provides educational information to the membership through direct communication.
What is the Social Action Commission ?
400
This program trains members, family, and friends on the 3 phases of home ownership (buying it, living in it, and keeping it).
What is Delta H.O.M.E. (Home Ownership Maintenance and Education) ?
400
This program provides an opportunity for local chapters to collaborate with an educational program for at-risk young women between the ages of 11-14. It offers mentoring, educational activities, and service learning opportunities to the participants.
What is the Dr. Betty Shabazz Delta Academy ?
400
Initially funded in 1955, this hospital wing named for Delta Sigma Theta provides pre-natal care and treatment for mothers and infants.
What is Thika Memorial Hospital (now named Mary Help of the Sick Mission Hospital) in Nairobi, Kenya ?
400
This mental health program is designed to elevate awareness of mental health disorders, including anger management, stress management, and substance abuse.
What is My Cry in the Dark ?
400
This organization is a 501(c)(3) and is a public foundation that serves the Sorority.
What is DREF (Delta Research and Educational Foundation)?
500
This program seeks to eliminate poverty housing from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
What is Delta Habitat for Humanity ?
500
This program was created in 2004 to help African-American young women between the ages of 14 and 18 realize their dreams. The goals are to provide tools that enables girls to sharpen and enhance their skills and to create compassionate, caring, community minded young women.
What is Delta G.E.M.S. (Growing and Empowering Myself Successfully) ?
500
This program allows chapters to make monetary gifts to children surviving on less than $1 a day.
What is Adopt-a-Child/Sponsor-a-Child ?
500
This program focuses on raising awareness of chronic illnesses and encourages prevention and treatment of such alignments.
What is Catching, Coping, and Conquering ?
500
The Alaska Alumnae Chapter participates in these programs to ensure social action is a priority in Anchorage, Alaska.
Partnership with NAACP, Partnership with Anchorage Assembly, and utilize DREF for scholarship.