All Entries in the "Community Service" Category
Leading Ladies: “Go Red & Think Pink”
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. partner with Delaware Valley Baptist Church to raise heart health awareness Leading Ladies: “Go Red & Think Pink” The “Leading Ladies Go Red & Think Pink” campaign is an initiative sponsored by the American Heart Association, American Stroke Association, American Cancer Society, and the [...]
AKA- Phi Tau Omega Chapter takes a “Day On of Service” for the MLK Holiday
On Monday, January 16, 2012 the Sorors of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Phi Tau Omega chapter along with family and friends partnered with Hands On Atlanta for their annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service at Renaissance Elementary School in Fairburn, GA. Volunteering in this event supports Alpha Kappa Alpha’s Initiative V: [...]
Marshall University AKAs Serve Homeless Children at Area Shelter
Source A local sorority has dedicated itself to making life better for homeless children in the area. The Marshall University Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority adopted a room at Hovah Hall Underwood Children’s Home in Ona, W.Va. The room serves as a short-term emergency children’s shelter operated by The Children’s Home Society of West Virginia. “We are [...]
Metro Detroit AKAs Giving Back
Source It is not always easy to put the needs of others before your own, but that feeling you get when you serve your fellow man is phenomenal. That is something Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior believed in and my sorority sisters do, too. On the day when the nation remembers the dream, the legacy [...]
Omega Psi Phi members ‘try to be a presence’ to black youths
Source They are the black men wearing royal purple and old gold who volunteer to deliver Friend-in-Deed meals to the poor of Springfield. They help not-for-profit groups with fundraising. They participate in voter registration drives. And they mentor and provide scholarships to disadvantaged youth while enjoying the fellowship of other black men whose roads to [...]
Omega Frater Edmund Lewis teaches young men in Detroit how to dream, see themselves in a better light
Source Edmund Lewis measured about a dozen young men for shirts and gave them donated ties. While he took measurements and tied ties, the 25-year-old Detroiter talked about college. “I want them to know you don’t have to be sagging to be cool,” Lewis said after a meeting at Community High School in Detroit’s Brightmoor [...]
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc Helps Feed 1,000 at ‘The Alley’
Newport News, Va. – Most people visit ‘The Alley’ for after work socials, to celebrate birthdays or for a night out on the town with close friends, but not the ladies in the royal blue and white. On Saturday, December 17th the Alpha Beta Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. helped transform the [...]
Salisbury Alumnae Sigma Gamma Rho Chapter Begins New Project
Source Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. will launch its new program, Project CRADLE Care, on Jan. 21. To address the current needs of the community, there is a partnership with the March of Dimes under the Project Reassurance, Healthy Generations program. “Project CRADLE Care” seeks to: • Improve pregnancy outcomes in the community among women [...]
Sigma Frater Braylon Edwards pays for 100 students to attend college
Source Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards is a man of his word. And because he is, 100 students are going to college on his dime. In 2007, Edwards promised 100 Cleveland high school students that he would pay for their college tuition—a total value of $1 million—if they maintained grade point averages at 2.5 or [...]
Sigma Gamma Rho To Recognize Female Soldiers for the Holidays
Source The Delta Kappa Sigma Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., in conjunction with SoftSheen-Carson and the Torchlight Foundation of New Jersey, have shared the holiday spirit by preparing and shipping care packages to female soldiers serving in the US military overseas. With the sponsorship of the Sister Soldier Project, we are providing [...]
