All Entries in the "Community Service" Category
Omega Frater Texas Sen. Royce West calls on ‘Greeks’ to help mentor vulnerable youths
Source State Sen. Royce West has put out the call across Texas for members of black fraternities and sororities to become volunteer mentors with Big Brothers Big Sisters, which pairs youths with caring adults who steer them on a positive path. West, D-Dallas, an Omega Psi Phi fraternity member, met this month with Greek organizations and [...]
New Haven Sigmas donate 500 backpacks to students
Source When students show up to the King/Robinson magnet school on Wednesday, they’ll find 500 backpacks waiting for them, stocked with goodies inside. The backpacks, donated by the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity, were assembled over the weekend at the Community Center at 230 Ashmun St. Of course, it’s not just backpacks that the students are [...]
Zeta Phi Beta, March of Dimes collect thousands of diapers at Washington Mystics game
Source Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, the March of Dimes and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield joined forces at the Verizon Center during a recent Washington Mystics game. The groups participated in a massive diaper drive and collected over 21,000 diapers for Stork’s Nest, a prenatal education and incentive program for low-income women maintained by Zeta Phi Beta, [...]
Gainesville Omegas award scholarships to graduates
Source The Beta Pi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. recently awarded the 2010 Neil A. Butler and Richard E. Dukes scholarships to Stacey Williams and Cornelius Stewart. Williams, a graduate of Buchholz High School, will attend Webber International University. Stewart, a graduate of Gainesville High School, plans to attend Santa Fe College. Shawn [...]
New London Sigmas to co-host school supply block party Saturday
Source Miracle Temple Church and a local chapter of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity are working together to offer school supplies to local students. The two groups will give book bags to the first 125 students to take part Saturday in their third annual School Supply Block Party from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Bennie [...]
Alpha Kappa Alpha joins the American Diabetes Association’s movement to stop Diabetes
Source Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA) is joining forces with the American Diabetes Association’s African American Initiatives — known as Live EMPOWERED — to stop diabetes in the African American Community. The collaboration is driven by the reality that African Americans are greatly affected by diabetes; they are 1.8 times more likely to have type 2 diabetes [...]
Omaha Kappas adopt Kellom Elementary School
Source A group of college students in the Omaha area isn’t sitting around waiting for academic achievement to improve among the city’s African-American boys. Members of the historically black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi are working to make the change happen. In a ceremony designed to make an impression on the students at Kellom Elementary at [...]
Alpha Phi Alpha begins implementing new worldwide programs
Heading into August, more than 50,000 members of Alpha Phi Alpha from the U.S. and around the world will begin implementing new plans to improve local communities after holding their annual convention last week in Las Vegas, Nev. The organization, the fraternity of Martin Luther King Jr., and the first African-American and integrated Greek-lettered organization [...]
Petersburg Deltas hold annual reading “Adventures”
Source Griot Charmain Crowell’s voice filled the room at the A.P. Hill Community Center. A room filled with adults and kids trying to balance on one leg. Children in the Deltas Adventures in Reading Enrichment program got a mental and physical workout with Crowell on July 21. After stretches, balancing, games and vocal exercises, the [...]
Madison AKAs fight the dismal statistics on African-American obesity
Source A recently released national study showed that almost one out of every two African-Americans in Wisconsin is obese, which is the highest percentage for this populace of any of the 50 states. Local Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) President Frances Huntley-Cooper saw that study and was amazed. Her AKA’s hope to help to beging to [...]
