The Joey DiPaolo AIDS Foundation was created in 1996 by Carol DiPaolo and her son Joey. When Joey was four, (1984) he was infected with the HIV virus from a blood transfusion during open-heart surgery. At age ten, Joey and his family attended Camp Sunburst in California which was the first and only AIDS related summer camp program in the country. 

Empowered and motivated by the camp experience both mother and son began public speaking in 1990 bringing AIDS education to parents, faculty, and students throughout the country. After becoming national AIDS spokespersons for several AIDS organizations, Carol and Joey decided to establish The Joey DiPaolo AIDS Foundation (JDAF). JDAF is a foundation motivated by compassion and hope for young people who are living in unforeseen circumstances. Together, Carol and Joey have provided more than 500 AIDS prevention and education programs nationwide.

In 2000, Camp TLC was founded as a vehicle to provide camping to youth living with AIDS/HIV. As the AIDS/HIV virus became a manageable disease versus one that took the lives of those infected, the need for Camps that dealt solely with AIDS/HIV diminished. And in 2008, Camp TLC went dormant. Recently, the Joey DiPaolo AIDS Foundation and Camp TLC teamed up with seasoned nonprofit professional Caroline Baumis, LMSW and decided to bring her dream of bringing programming tochildren living in isolating circumstances to life.  Recently, The Joey DiPaolo AIDS Foundation was asked to team up with the Cambridge, MA based organization, Next Steps to develop and implement a task force of prior campers (based in New York and New Jersey) who are living with AIDS/HIV. This group, under the supervision of the Executive Director, Caroline Baumis, meets monthly to help develop the curriculum that will be the driving force behind the One Love Project (Conference) to be held in Cambridge, MA this August. 

  The Joey DiPaolo AIDS organization is a 501 (c) 3 organization, our Federal Tax ID numbers is 22 -345810