Gratitude

Because You Showed Up

Delaney's habit was noticing people. This community has spent the past year proving that habit is contagious, showing up on billboards, in classrooms, at dance recitals, and around dinner tables that were never her own. Here is some of what that has looked like.

thank you, thank you, thank you

The Live Like Delaney Foundation logo

Even this logo was a gift

Butterflies kept finding their way to Delaney, resting on her memorial brick as if they knew exactly where to land. Lisa Quine turned that into this mark and gave it to us freely, simply because she believed in what we were building.

Lisa Quine

Where her light has traveled

A few of the bigger moments
A Lamar digital billboard reading You Are Beautiful, Love Delaney, with the Baldwin Wallace clock tower and downtown Cleveland in the background.

Lamar Advertising

From I⁠-480 into downtown, nine billboards carried Delaney's words, "You are beautiful, love Delaney," to thousands of drivers who never knew her and needed to hear it anyway.

Lamar Advertising
Four children in hard hats standing at the front door of the Wigton Homes Delaney model, framed by a pink and purple balloon and butterfly arch.
A pink butterfly stenciled onto a wood stud inside the Wigton Homes Delaney model.

Wigton Homes

Wigton Homes named a home model after Delaney. Every one built carries a butterfly stamped inside it, and every sale sends $1,000 back to the foundation, kindness built right into the blueprints.

Wigton Homes
Delaney's framed number 1 Harlem Wizards jersey held up in the stands, surrounded by family during the game dedicated to her.

Harlem Wizards

The Harlem Wizards dedicated a game to Delaney and presented her family with a custom jersey, her name and her light carried out onto the court in front of twelve hundred people.

Harlem Wizards
Delaney smiling and holding her pink bunny, the one now known as Delaney's Bunny.
20 GIFTED

The Print Shop

The pink bunny Delaney chose here on her seventh birthday never left her side. The Print Shop now calls it Delaney's Bunny, and is gifting twenty of them to children in the Pediatric ICU.

The Print Shop
Four girls in Live Like Delaney shirts posing with their arms raised in front of the Emilie's Coffee House and Wine Bar mural.

Emilie's Coffee House & Wine Bar

For one week, Emilie's turned their counter into a fundraiser for the foundation, and their regulars showed up in Live Like Delaney shirts to make it a celebration. By the time the week closed, they had raised over four thousand dollars.

Emilie's Coffee House & Wine Bar

More of our community

Every bit of it matters

Thank you to each of these businesses and neighbors for finding their own way to carry her light forward.

Inner Bliss Yoga Studio

Hosted "Flowing with Kindness," a class taught by owner Tammy Lyons in Delaney's honor.

 Big M Pizza

Donated a full dinner for the crew at the Avon Lake Fire Station as part of a monthly Kindness Drop.

 J. McLaughlin

Hosted a sip and shop fundraising event at their Rocky River store.

 Estella Boutique

Hosted a sip and shop fundraising event at Crocker Park.

 Miss Kristin's Dance Studio

Honored Delaney throughout recital weekend with purple bows, kindness cards for every performer, and a new yearly Delaney Kilbane Award for the dancer who embodies her spirit.

 Once Upon A Wish Travel

Launched Cruise for Kindness: book any qualifying cruise through Katie Martin and $100 is donated to the foundation once your cruise sails.

Want to be on this list?

If your business, studio, or team wants to carry a little of Delaney's light too, we would love to hear from you.

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