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STAGGERS FOUNDATION

Restoring Dignity • Strengthening Communities • Creating Opportunities

Learn More About Our Mission

STAGGERS Foundation was founded from personal experience, loss, resilience, faith, and a deep commitment to helping people who are facing some of life’s most difficult circumstances.

Our mission is to restore dignity, strengthen communities, and create opportunities through housing, education, wellness, youth development, veteran support, second-chance opportunities, and compassionate community outreach.

We believe that people should not be defined by their circumstances, their past, their losses, or the hardest chapter of their lives.

Everyone deserves an opportunity to rebuild.

Our Programs

Housing & Dignity Suites

We provide safe, stable, dignified housing opportunities for individuals and families who need a place to rebuild.

Our housing initiatives include:

  • Transitional housing

  • Veteran housing

  • Housing for domestic violence survivors

  • Reentry and second-chance housing

  • Dignity Suites

  • Emergency and supportive housing

  • Furnished housing opportunities

  • Housing navigation and placement assistance

  • Move-in assistance and essential household support

Domestic Violence Services

This work is deeply personal.

STAGGERS Foundation was founded by Vivian Avasthi Wright Allen, a woman who has personally experienced the devastating impact of domestic violence.

After losing her husband, a military veteran, while he was serving in Afghanistan, Vivian experienced profound grief and began the process of rebuilding her life.

While healing, she met someone she believed cared for her. She married him, believing she had found love and safety. Instead, she found herself in a relationship involving domestic violence that nearly cost her, her life.

Vivian survived.

That experience changed the direction of her life and strengthened her determination to help other people who may feel trapped, afraid, isolated, or without options.

Through STAGGERS Foundation, she wants survivors to know:

You are not alone.
Your life has value.
You deserve safety.
You deserve dignity.
You deserve another opportunity to rebuild.

Our Domestic Violence Services focus on helping survivors move from crisis toward safety, stability, independence, and healing through housing assistance, resource navigation, essential needs, referrals, supportive services, and community partnerships.

Veteran Support

We honor veterans and their families by connecting them with housing, resources, community support, and opportunities for stability.

Second-Chance & Reentry Housing

We believe a person’s past should not eliminate their opportunity for a future.

Our second-chance initiatives support individuals returning to the community who need housing, stability, employment resources, life structure, and an opportunity to rebuild.

Food Pantry & Mobile Pantry

Our food assistance programs help individuals and families experiencing financial hardship access nutritious food and essential household supplies.

Our mobile pantry initiative brings resources directly into communities where they are needed.

Education & Workforce Support

We connect individuals with educational resources, employment referrals, workforce opportunities, training, and supportive services designed to help people become more stable and self-sufficient.

Youth Development

We support young people through mentorship, educational opportunities, community activities, resources, and programs designed to help them recognize their potential.

Wellness & Support Services

We connect individuals and families with wellness resources, supportive services, referrals, community partners, and opportunities to develop healthier and more stable lives.

Community Outreach

We serve our communities through compassionate outreach, resource distribution, community events, essential-needs assistance, partnerships, and programs designed to meet people where they are.

Turning Pain into Purpose

STAGGERS Foundation is also rooted in the life and legacy of Davontay, Vivian’s son.

Davontay was passionate about housing and believed in giving people who had made mistakes an opportunity for a second chance. He understood the struggle personally and knew what it meant to face difficult circumstances while trying to rebuild.

His life was tragically cut short after trusting someone he considered a friend.

His loss created another devastating chapter of pain for Vivian and her family.

But through that pain came an even stronger determination to serve.

Vivian chose to turn her pain into purpose.

The experiences she has survived, the people she has lost, and the struggles she has witnessed have given her a personal understanding of why housing, safety, dignity, second chances, and compassionate support matter.

She does not serve these communities simply because they are statistics.

She serves because she understands the struggle.

She knows what it feels like to lose someone you love.

She knows what it feels like to have your life changed by violence.

She knows what it means to have to rebuild.

She knows what it means to fight for another chance.

And she knows that sometimes one safe place, one caring person, one opportunity, or one helping hand can change the direction of someone’s life.

Our Commitment

STAGGERS Foundation is committed to transforming personal pain into community purpose.

We serve veterans, domestic violence survivors, individuals seeking a second chance, families experiencing hardship, people experiencing housing instability, and communities that need additional support.

We believe housing is more than a roof.

It is safety.

It is dignity.

It is stability.

It is an opportunity to heal.

It is a foundation for a new beginning.

Help Us Create That New Beginning.

Support STAGGERS Foundation as we continue building programs that give people the opportunity to move from survival to stability, from crisis to hope, and from hardship to opportunity.

The Staggers Foundation

The Staggers Foundation is a recognized 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to serving individuals and families through community support, outreach, and assistance programs.

All eligible donations may be tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Mail Donations To:

The Staggers Foundation
In Honor of Davontay Dashawn Staggers Sr.
c/o V.A. Staggers Wright Allen
1021 E Washington St
Phoenix, AZ 85034

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The Staggers Foundation

The Staggers Foundation is a recognized 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to serving individuals and families through community support, outreach, and assistance programs.

All eligible donations may be tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Mail Donations To:

The Staggers Foundation
In Honor of Davontay Dashawn Staggers Sr.
c/o V.A. Staggers Wright Allen
1021 E Washington St
Phoenix, AZ 85034

EIN 41-260381.