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About Delta Phi
Omega Chapter
Programs
 Scholarships:
Since it's chartering, Delta Phi Omega has emphasized supporting students
through scholarship awards. Recent fundraising efforts to provide scholarship
funds include AKADazzle, a Neiman Marcus Fashion Show and an all Soror
Telethon. AKADazzle is the annual scholarship dance held at the Minneapolis
Women's Club each January. Despite the weather, AKADAZZLe is a popular
Twin Cities social event. Delta Phi Omega is partnering with Neiman
Marcus to present a breakfast fashion show followed by make-overs and
shopping. During the telethon, Sorors used a bank of telephones to call
active and inactive Sorors in the Twin Cities to obtain pledges for
the scholarship fund.
Click here for current Scholarship Information.
Beatrice Schuck Reed Bailey Scholarship Fund:
Beatrice Schuck Reed Bailey was a charter member of Delta Phi Omega.
Over the years she served the sorority in many capacities including
multiple terms as President. Her love for the sorority and her strong
belief in education as the key to success led her to choose Delta Phi
Omega’s scholarship fund as her charity of choice. In 1982, toward the
end of her courageous battle with cancer, Soror Bailey asked that any
memorial given at her death be placed in the chapter’s scholarship fund
to help deserving students with their college expenses. Thus was born
the Beatrice Bailey Scholarship Fund. Over the years the chapter has
added to the fund and uses a portion of the interest for the annual
scholarship and reinvests the balance for future scholarships.
 Fashionetta:
In 1986, the chapter initiated a major fundraiser, the Miss Fashionetta
Program and Pageant. The program provided special contact between girls
aged 12 to 15 and the professional women of the chapter. During the
Fashionetta season, various topics were addressed in a variety of ways:
Leadership development, self awareness, cultural and career awareness.
Also, a scholarship/financial plan, as a base for an education fund
was started for each participant. Each received 50 percent of all money
raised in her name as a mutual fund or savings bonds. Remaining funds
were used for the chapter scholarships. Most young women who participated
in the program successfully completed college and some graduate school.
Many became members of Alpha Kappa Alpha while attending college.
Ivy House:
The chapter began a partnership with St. Joseph's Home for Children
in the mid 1990s. St. Joseph's is a residential facility for children
who have been physically or emotionally abused or neglected. A majority
of the children are African American. Once a month Sorors spend two
hours with the children. Time is spent, reading, playing games, braiding
hair or just giving attention to individual children
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