Service Projects

Platform 1

Non-Traditional Entrepreneur

Text Box: Women are seizing the reins of entrepreneurship because they realize that it is the key to economic survival. As they become more of the business landscape and their enterprises grow, women are coming face to face with the challenges of managing and expanding new ventures. To build a strong foundation for women in business, Alpha Kappa Alpha will create economic expertise, success in business and power networking opportunities for the non-traditional entrepreneur.

Text Box: Economic development is expanding its reach to a new global frontier. The Sorority must be poised to compete in these world markets. Simultaneously, living standards within the Black community must be improved. To achieve these goals, Alpha Kappa Alpha will, through education, synergy and partnerships, develop and disseminate the economic keys to success.

Platform 2

Economic Keys to Success

Platform 3

Economic Growth of the Black Family

Text Box: The strength of the Black community hinges on the viability of the family. If the family foundation is weak, so too will be the broader societal structure that gives life and nourishes the family unit. Alpha Kappa Alpha is sensitive to the fact that within the core structure, the Black male, in particular, faces potentially daunting challenges. Recognizing this, a powerful remedy lies in devising strategies for assisting young males in overcoming the formidable challenges to their educational development and well-being. Through activities that enable, support and provide access, Alpha Kappa Alpha will work to achieve the economic growth of the Black family.

Text Box: Technology must be mastered if there is any hope of economic educational advancement. To address this powerful reality, Alpha Kappa Alpha resolves to work with higher educational institutions and other organizations that reach students to develop an exemplary model technology access and training program that serves the community and becomes part of the central activities of the institution. Driven by this platform, the Sorority will initiate an undergraduate signature program: Economic Educational Advancement through Technology.

Platform 4

Economic Educational Advancement Through Technology

Text Box: To reach that stratosphere of satisfaction where one is physically and mentally fit and poised to embrace all of life's rewards and challenges requires a balance of emotional intelligence, optimal psychology and spirituality. Studies prove that when all of these elements are in divine order, physical health, relationships and life satisfaction will be the result. Through health resource management and economics, Alpha Kappa Alpha will address the many health issues and crises that face the Black community in the United States and globally. The mandate in this platform is to gain emotional empowerment, develop social support networks and raise public awareness.

Platform 5

Health Resource Management and Economics

Text Box: During its existence, Pi Iota Omega has become one of the outstanding chapters in the Notable North Atlantic Region. Since its chartering, Pi Iota Omega has been of SERVICE TO ALL MANKIND by awarding thousands of dollars in scholarships to deserving college freshmen and carrying out many noteworthy programs and projects in the community. Service Activities · Feeding the Homeless at Union Baptist Church · Co-sponsoring a pre-Kwanzaa Celebration with Black Social Workers Organization · Providing an advanced mathematics tutorial program · Hosted monthly activities for boys of Schole's Cottage in Children's village · Collecting for the Annual Food Drive for needy families in Greenburgh/ White Plains · Providing gifts for the "Whatzit" holiday party for children · Maintaining a partnership with the local American Red Cross / Maintaining a partnership with local NAACP · Partnerships with Project Early Read K-5/,Saturday Academy for Males to Excel and The Clubmen Higher Aims Program · Participating in Black Dollar Month / MLK Day of Service Projects · Sponsoring AKA Angels, a mentoring group for girls grades 6-8 · Sponsoring AKA Teens, a mentoring group for girls grades 9-12 · Participation in the Heart-Walk, Breast Cancer Walk, Health Walk and Lupus Walk · Sponsored "ON TRACK" program for selected 4th - 7th grade students · AKA Coat Day / Opening of the Ivy AKAdemy · Sponsored Artist Reception Lecture for Carolyn Adams · Supported Music America 1999 / Hosting Financial Planning Workshops · Political letter writing through The Connection Committee / Voter registration/education activities · Sponsor MBE (Minority Business Entrepreneur Workshops) Pi Iota Omega has made financial donations to local and national organizations including: · The Children's Village fire damage fund / Africare Refugee Program · AKA Educational Advancement Foundation (EAF) · NAACP / UNCF/ Lois Bronz Children’s Center · Martin Luther King Club / Whitney M. Young Club · Urban League of Westchester Black Scholars Program / Dr. Barry Yearwood Scholarship The Chapter has also collaborated with other organizations to improve the community including Cluster III's Habitat for Humanity and Sickle Cell Anemia Projects, and Zeta Nu Omega's AKAP service volunteers, maintaining partnerships with the NAACP, The Department of Transportation, and the AMERICAN RED CROSS, (Project Early Read) is with White Plains School District, White Plains Housing Authority. We also give generous donations to numerous service providing organizations. We continue to render exemplary programs and have received awards for the past two years for outstanding Chapter Programs. We continue to render exemplary programs and have received awards for outstanding Chapter Programs.