Do So first off we’re going to for some reason we’re going to go ahead and start with the rotary club and we’re going to have mr trey mcguire are you on i am great we’re going to turn if you all can spotlight trey and he’s going to give us
A little bit of information about the rotary club good morning everyone i know we have a packed agenda so i’ll move through this rather quickly i am serving as the scholarship chair for our 2022 rotary club scholarships you can go to the next slide each year um the rotary club awards
Several competitive scholarships this year we’re awarding five um to students who are in the area these awards are valued up to two thousand dollars and they’re not renewable the scholarships as i’ve stated are open to all students within ipsy community schools or the lincoln consolidated school district
They do not have to attend public school in order to be eligible for the award so this is open to students who are who attend public school private school home schooled or a school of choice within those two districts and just to show you some of the requirements um the requirements for all
Five scholarships are the same there is small differences between the various awards so the dream award um i’ll talk about first um as many of you may know gene butman was a long time ipsy business person a rotarian um and so this scholarship is one that we award
Every year um to attend a student who is attending college full-time that is a requirement for all awards is that they have to be um pursuing a college career after uh finishing high school um and their gpa for this particular award has to be at a at least a 3.0 or higher
And we’re evaluating all of our applicants for all of these awards um based off their leadership their community experience um and their future goals we can move on to the next one um the same is true for this one um again those requirements are still the same there there are very differences between
These different awards you can keep moving through them um but again we really want our suit our high school students in the area to apply for these awards these will help to alleviate some of the financial burden that many students face when entering um higher education and so we really this
Money is is we want to give it away so we want to encourage all students to apply um and the unique thing about this is through the application students are able to apply for all of these scholarships at one time so they are not submitting a different application for
The different awards we really wanted to break down some barriers and make these scholarships more accessible for our area students if you have any questions again my name is trey mcguire my email is on your screen to apply for these scholarships visit ipsyrotary.org page scholarships and all of the
Requirements and detailed information on all the awards are there thank you thank you trey so much for this information again as he noted in here you can apply for all of these scholarships at the same time that’s a very important part to that thank you at this point we’re going to get before
We get into the divine nine we want to provide a little bit of history in regards to what the divine is all about and uh we have nine historically african american organizations who are part of what we call the national panhellenic council and today we’re going to have our local president uh for
The ann arbor chapter mr stafford watts uh give us a little bit of brief information about uh the national well we call it the mphc mr watts good morning everybody it’s so good to see some so many faces that i haven’t seen in quite some time well the mphc is um our national
Um organization but we do have our chapter here in ann arbor uh we work globally together to meet the needs of the community each of the divine nine organization that’s on the car today will actually discuss what they do in their organization so i can’t take
Much time up into that i am a member of capital science fraternity ann arbor um as my senior paul mark would say we call it nuke nation so i’m always here if you guys need to reach out to me you can reach out to me um at our site at mphcaa.org
You can shoot us the email just because we are the divine line we do work with other organizations as well we do do our uh annual easter egg hunt which is a collaborative community service event as well so again if you have any questions you can reach out to us at mphca
Thank you mr watts for that introduction all right let’s get the roll call is my family ready are y’all ready all right so we’re going to start off with the first uh african-american uh greek organization return fraternity organization and at this time we’re going to have brother roberts go ahead
And introduce his organization thank you so much sister janiece and everyone good morning and thank you so much for this opportunity as you said alpha phi alpha is the first intercollegiate greek letter fraternity established by african americans it was founded on december 4th 1906 at cornell university which is actually an ivy
League institution in upstate new york locally our chapter based here in washington county is theta zeta lambda chapter and we are celebrating 60 years this year the mission of alpha phi alpha is to develop leaders promote brotherhood and academic excellence while providing service and advocacy for our communities
So you have before you some images of some well-known alphas both nationally and locally in the upper left brother john h johnson founder and publisher of jet nebulae magazines in the lower left brother thurgood marshall the first african-american to serve on the united states supreme court and of course the
Brother reverend dr martin luther king some of you may notice some of the faces or names of some of the local brothers there towards the middle right and then i also wanted to point out we have some up-and-coming brothers some younger brothers who are doing great things in our communities
Among them at the upper right brother shea carter who we are delighted to have as principal at ann arbor huron high school and below him brother michael johnson who is the principal at carpenter elementary school i should also note that this region is blessed to be the home of two other
Distinguished chapters in alpha phi alpha epsilon chapter seated at the university of michigan which is the fifth undergraduate chapter in the organization and gamma lambda chapter seated in detroit which is the third graduate chapter second slide please i wanted to talk just a bit about our programming particularly as it relates
To education so one of our four national programs is go to high school go to college which actually celebrates 100 years this year and it has many components here for us locally starting on your right we do something called the esquire leadership and mentoring program where we bring
Together young men from 6th through 12th grades one saturday each month and we talk to them about a variety of personal and professional development needs and opportunities and it’s also an opportunity for them to form community in the center we have participated in something we call the teen success summit
Along with some of our friends from other organizations you see my lovely wife martinis there in the pink and green this particular photo was taken at arbor prep school where we went out and provided a series of workshops to the young people there about how they can
Move forward in their lives and then on the left a flyer for our 25th annual student recognition luncheon which was actually held virtually last year and this is where we distribute our scholarships so if we can move to that final slide i will talk about our scholarships in 2014
Our local chapter theta zeta lambda established an endowment for scholarships and as many of you know an endowment is a permanent fund a permanent source of support in this case for scholarships and the idea is that the earnings the returns from that fund are then reinvested to generate more scholarships
And so with this great support of community and brothers and others we are now able to award this year 14 1 000 scholarships our area is primarily washed in our county although we do support seniors in other areas of southeastern michigan and if you see there those logos those represent the schools
Who had recipients of our scholarships last year i should note in particular with our scholarship we are not necessarily seeking those students who are at the top of their class we are most interested in students who are improving academically socially and personally and we also want to be sure that we are
Reaching out to students who receive free or reduced lunch so we particularly encourage those on this call to seek out those students for our scholarship the scholarship application may be found at ann arbor alphas.org and our deadline is march 25th right before spring break i just wanted to mention one final thing
The photo on the right is of the malcolm family and it really demonstrates the impact that our work can have and i’m sure the same goes for all the organizations represented here the young man you see robert malcolm attended skyline high school he was a member of our esquires leadership and mentoring
Program he was recognized at our student recognition luncheon his senior year he earned a scholarship from us he then went to morehouse college where he is still matriculating as an honor student he has earned a forty thousand dollar scholarship there from oprah winfrey and he is now exploring grad
Schools and if that weren’t enough his family having been blessed by us and the community with a scholarship has in fact more than repaid that scholarship with contributions back to us so that we can bless others service is what we’re all about and we thank you for this opportunity
Thank you brother roberts for that excellent presentation and congratulations to the local ann arbor alphas and all that you all do my nephew darius gregory was a recipient of this uh scholarship and is now a member of alpha phi elf attorney and a graduate of michigan state university and working in
Finance so yes they do a lot all right thank you so next we’re going to have uh that sister gail richardson she is the president of the local ann arbor uh alpha kappa alpha sorority incorporated chapter delta psi omega um one of my favorite uh i have a lot of favorites in
This chapter uh one in particular beverly tyler who was my school counselor at ipsilanti high school and sister tyler kept me together all right so sister richardson go ahead and do your presentation thank you thank you so much for including me and yes sister tyler has touched so many of our lives
On so many levels you can go to the next slide please alpha kappa alpha sorority is the first african-american greek letter sorority established by and for college trained women the sorority was founded in january 15 1908 at howard university in washington dc this small group of women who organized the society the sorority
Was conscious of the privileged position of college trained women of color just one generation removed from slavery you wish to know more feel free to visit aka 1908 for more information the goal of the support goals with sororities program activities center on significant issues relevant to african americans in families communities
Government halls and world assembly chambers its efforts constitute the priceless part of the global experience in the 21st century currently the sorority is comprised of a nucleus of 260 000 members in graduate and undergraduate chapters in the united states the u.s virgin islands the caribbean canada japan dubai germany korea and the
Continent of africa we are also very proud to claim the vice president of the united states kamala harris as the first black asian female vice president of the united states ii omega was chartered the chapter was chartered on december 4th 1948 in ann arbor michigan since that time our talented dedicated
Visionary and diverse membership has carried on the alpha kappa alpha sorority incorporated tradition of providing supreme service to all mankind our focus is supporting people in washington county we also are connected to the nine there are nine alpha afrika alpha chapters in southeastern michigan we call ourselves
The metro nine and we work together to provide lots and lots of service to the entire southeastern michigan area through our international programs we are dedicated to achieving the goals of the sorority which focus on being of service to our community and to strengthen interactions with each other the current international program
Is exemplifying excellence through sustainable service it includes five target areas what number one is hbcu for life a call to action we’re very proud to have raised two million dollars in one day to support hbcus across the country as well as a million dollars every year for the
Last four years to provide endowments to as many hbcus as we possibly could we also work on women’s healthcare and wellness for ourselves as well as for the community providing breast cancer awareness issues and mammograms we are we believe in building your economic legacy one of the flaws that
We’ve discovered over time is that we as african-americans don’t often leave legacy of finances for our children and we’re trying to learn how to do that better we also like to celebrate the arts as many of you know some of the most important parts for some kids in school
Is the arts and we try to build on that program and we we also work for global impact we don’t just focus on the united states we provide services to especially to refugees in the last four years but to countries across the country we also have a signature program called hashtag
Cap which stands for college application process anyone who’s had a child try to get ready to go to college knows how complex that process is and this program was designed to help them i must admit over the last year or so it’s been really hard with the pandemic but we’ve
Made sort of a visual connection with those young people who are currently high school students anywhere in washington county our sororities events our main events are celebration of black men and young men of promise where we recognize both black men who are doing outstanding things in the community and young men
Who we anticipate we’ll continue to do great things in the community we also have a fundraiser primary fundraiser jeans jewels and jams sponsored by our foundation um and then we’ve scheduled we we are tentatively scheduled for uh may but we’ll see what happens uh we also partner with other
Organizations in the area including the ann arbor alumni chapter of delta sigma theta and the ann arbor chapter of the lynx on take your daughters and sons to work to give young people an opportunity to hear various issues that are relevant to them and their future also we’ve collaborated with the ann
Arbor my chapter delta sigma theta sorority with the what’s next social action series to get to know what’s going on with politics in our state primarily we supervise two undergraduate chapters of which we are very proud one is beta ada which is at the university of michigan the other is sigma zeta which
Is at albion college the undergrads join us for our participation in community service activities like the longest day walk to support alzheimer’s disease scholarships we too find fundamentally that our main goal is to help young people attend college if they choose or schools of higher learning after high
School over 200 scholarships have been awarded to young people of washington county beginning in 2016 a scholarship for a student attending an hvcu was implemented check our website for news and upcoming events aka deltacyomega.org because we will be again presenting these scholarships although the pandemic has helped us
Learn how to pivot and figure out other ways to get that job done but they are still available thank you so much and i’m glad to participate and see all of my i’m so proud of all my brown faces on this view thank you thank you such a sister richardson for
The excellent presentation again uh please make sure you visit aka delta psiomega.org for additional information i also want to do a special shout out to my history teacher in high school miss harmon as well as my sister who is working in the community sister lisa lewis a trustee of superior township
All right next we have the crimson and crane kappa alpha psi fraternity incorporated and we have brother daryl washington who is going to be giving us a presentation on this great organization and the scholarships that they offer mr washington thank you mr townsend uh brother eccleston is going to start out and then
I’ll finish up so we’ll start with him thank you brother washington um next slide please um greetings my name is tony eccleston and i’m the vice paul mark for the ann arbor ipsilan inkster alumni chapter of capofsia fraternity incorporated thanks to the ypsilanti community schools and imps atlanta motivate club for having us
On january 5th 1911 10 african-american college men formed a fraternity on the campus of indiana university that today is known as kappa alpha psi the organization has grown to hundreds of thousands of men as one of nine historically black fraternities and sororities that make up the divine nine
This year we celebrate 100 years of of achievement founded at a time when greek life wasn’t an option for black students the fraternity now has more than two hundred thousand members notable members include filmmaker john singleton sports legends arthur ashe colin kaepernick bill russell founder of bet network’s robert johnson
And the first black american to complete a spacewalk dr bernard harris next slide please the ann arbor ipsilan inkster alumni chapter was established december 6 1958 originally as the inksta alumni chapter under the leadership of william a sims northern province poll mark the ann arbor ipsilan inks alumni chapter is a
Vibrant active organization in the community we hold many events that are open to the public and we engage in many activities that provide service to others helping those in need is a tremendous part of what we do some of our activities back to school programs holiday gift baskets meals on wheel delivery college
Fair and a host of other activities 111 years after its founding kappa alpha psi fraternity continues to unite educate and invigorate youthful black males by carrying the founders torches through our kapolei program we are committed to help promote and develop the leadership potential of its members through participation and club oriented
Activities to raise their aspiration level kappa league members participate in activities and develop projects that will expose them to planning implementing and discussing ideas that stimulate good leadership characteristics our kappa foundation is granted over three hundred thousand dollars to high school and college students i will now turn over the presentation to
Brother daryl washington the president of our kappa foundation to provide more information on our scholarship program thank you brother eccleston and welcome to all the young people this morning and what a great opportunity for you to find out about opportunities in the community scholarship opportunities as well as what the great things these
Organizations are doing uh as brother eccleston mentioned i’m the president of the kappa foundation the kappa foundation was started in 2013 and we have donated over 317 000 in scholarships to people in the community some of the things i want to talk about this morning is the criteria for a kappa foundation award
Participants must be entering into their freshman year at an accredited institution of higher education and that would be uh coming up uh this fall uh must have maintained an overall a grade point average of 2.5 or better we do require a copy of your academic transcript and you also must submit a one-page
Personal biography typed and double spaced outlining your career goals in addition a minimum of one letter of recommendation must accompany each application the deadline to submit an application is april the 2nd and selected finalists will be notified no later than may 1st of this year and i’ll just mention you can also check
With your school counselor on the application process or you can go to our website and website addresses are listed here where there is an online application that you can apply to in 2020 the foundation awarded twenty four thousand dollars in scholarships we awarded 24 outstanding young people in the ann
Arbor ypsilanti inkster canton uh wayne area as well as all of washington county in 2021 we awarded 18 scholarships and this year we’re planning to award 15 scholarships to some outstanding young people in the community so i encourage you to apply as again you can go to our website and
Just click on the application and submit your information or you can see your school counselor who have we been we’ve been in touch with who has information about our scholarship program we’re glad to be a part of this effort and our congratulations again to the ypsilanti community schools
Rotary club for putting this on thank you thank you so much brother eccleston and brother washington for that great presentation again you can visit uh ann arbor kappas.org or go to aayikf.org for additional scholarship information special shout out to melvin rope and my basketball coach i’m saying
These names so y’all can get the trend that we have a lot of educators uh that worked uh within the district as other districts as well so when people tell us that you know the greek community is not out there working that’s not true we out there working every day so i’m always
Mr green i mean there’s so many people that have been influential in my life and i just want to make sure that you know we get the word out about who we are all right so the great men of omega psi phi fraternity incorporated the sigma rho chapter uh in our absolute
Landing area we’re gonna have brother uh dana green who is the president of the local chapter give us a presentation about his organization brother green stuck on mute i apologize good morning everybody or should i say for me it’s a good night i’m a midnight guy so
Please uh bear with me but i like to on behalf of uh our 41st grand basilisk dr david marion and our 37th uh 10th district uh representative uh derrick d ivory i’d like to thank everybody for coming out and spending this time with us this morning and just
To give you a quick and brief history and let you know some of the things that sigma road chapter is doing uh omega scifi fraternity incorporated was founded november 17th 1911 on the campus of howard university on the third floor of the science center currently known as third kill hall
We had three visionary undergraduate students known as the three musketeers which became professor frank coleman dr oxford james cooper and bishop edgar and ms love they were supported by a graduate advisor who was dr ernest everett just we were founded under the principles of manhood scholarship perseverance and
Uplift we were the first black fraternity to be founded on a hbcu and just a quick note omega side five fraternity charted the first divine nine chapter in china in 2018 under the name of kai munu and they’re in shanghai uh we were very pleased with that
Because one of our brothers uh paige williams was the basilisk of that chapter and had a very large impact in helping to uh start that chapter uh sigma rho chapter was founded in 1964 by our 16 charter members who were led by uh sidney l moore who will become our first baseless
We serve the greater ann arbor ipsulani uh community for over 55 years when we’re not in uh kovac protocol we meet at the ann arbor community center we are obligated under international rules to uh have uh mandated programs which include our achievement week social action programs college endowment naacp calling hunt scholarship voter
Registration education and mobilization as well as health initiatives uh one of the things that i’m very proud of is our health initiatives uh along with the uh rural council council center and uh sister townsend we uh we have uh put on uh help uh men’s health programs
Uh the last one we had uh dr david marion was there and uh he’s also the uh president current president of the mphc so we do a lot of things another thing that we did doing during the year was we uh provided 150 uh complete hats coats scars and gloves
To the ipsilanti community centers uh some of their needy uh students we also provided uh food baskets and another thing that i’m very proud of was shopping with the cues in which we again partnered with the uh insanity community uh schools and we also uh took 30 students
Along with in collaboration with uh myers uh gave them 100 each 30 students and let them have a shopping spree for christmas uh next slide please so what i really like to talk about is our we are entering our current scholarship uh programs and one of our first ones is this uh small
Fight which is southeast michigan omega foundation incorporated and uh since 2001 we’ve uh provided 82 scholarships for over 30 300 000 we’ve just recently raised our uh scholarships to six thousand dollars from five thousand dollars and they are passed out in increments of uh fifteen hundred dollars of a four four-year period
This year the applications uh must be emailed the deadline date is april 15 2022. uh the applications can be downloaded at www.smofi.org under programs when you go to the website it will be under programs uh this is strictly for uh african american male seniors who attend high school in southeast
Michigan uh sigma rho will provide two six thousand dollar skills for a total of twelve we actually cover uh wayne washington oakland and macomb counties so each one of those uh counties will each receive uh two scholarships a piece the uh requirements are below uh 2.75 grade point average four-year college university accredited
Uh demonstrate a good character and possess evidence of leadership ability as well as they will have to write a essay the next one i’d like to talk about is the sigma raw 2022 virtual talent hunt uh this talent hunt is one of several national programs designed to identify
The and support the youth of our nation and the world this original idea was created by our ninth grand basilisk brother j austin atkins of winston-salem north carolina and it provided a platform for african-american youth to exhibit their talents which during the time period they weren’t allowed that opportunity
So with that being said our apple uh scholarship talent hunt this year is uh first prize will be six hundred dollars uh second prize will be 300 and our third prize will be 150 it will be all virtual uh next slide please oh i went back i’m sorry
Okay so i thought i had another slide up there with the uh flyer and with the flyer on it but i guess i didn’t so if you go to our website i will i will make sure that uh sister thompson gets our flyer on our flyer there’s a bar
Code that you can just scan and the applications and everything that you need will fall down if not you can uh visit that at www.sigmarroyomegas.org and just to add a couple of quick other uh points that uh again i thank everybody for coming out and happy black history month which we all
Know that was uh founded by omega sci-fi fraternity incorporated so you all enjoy uh a little bit of our legacy and as well as you are uh current uh well-known lawyer civil rights lawyer uh benjamin crump is also a member of omega sci-fi fraternity incorporated as well as the current naacp
President uh derrick johnson so just to let you know mega stock fight is out there and in the community doing good we’re activists we help every we we try to help in the community and all of the uh aspects of black life so i thank everybody for
Taking the time to hear us out and enjoy black history month thank you thank you brother greene that the one thing we can’t say about the family we will remind you of what we do so we appreciate you for this month thank you you’re very
Welcome i also want to shout out to my cousin saffer washington and lorraine ohio he’s probably checking us out as well one of my favorite uh cues uh my favorite one of my favorite older cousins as well so thank you so now we’re going to go to the
Beautiful sisters of delta sigma theta sorority incorporated the ann arbor alumni chapter and we’re going to have their president sister tamika stone give us information about their organization and what scholarships they provide to the community sister stone you’re on you there we go good morning good morning to everyone thank you
Janice thank you for inviting us once again i come to you on behalf of the anna roloney chapter of delta sigma theta sorority incorporated next slide please as you can see just a brief history of delta sigma theta sorority incorporated we were founded january 13 1913 by 22
Collegiate women at howard university to promote academic excellence and provide assistance to those in need our mission the mission of delta sigma theta sorority incorporated is an organization of college-educated women committed to the constructive developments of its members into public service with a primary focus on the black community next slide please
Delta sigma theta sorority incorporated is a private nonprofit organization whose purpose is to provide assurance and support through established programs in local communities throughout the world as well as international part of the world sending census founding more than 300 000 women have joined the organization the sorority currently has
10 000 college and alumni chapters located in the united states canada japan that’s tokyo and okinawa germany the virgin islands bermuda bahamas jamaica africa and the republic of korea the major programs of the sorority are based upon the organization’s five-point problematic thrust educational development economic development international awareness and involvement
Physical and mental health and political awareness and involvement next slide please now about the ann arbor alumni chapter we were charted on november 17 1962 by 20 through 23 women who chartered the ann arbor alumni chapter we have served the washtenaw county for 59 years with programs and events next slide
This scholarship in front of you is one of our most popular scholarship and this goes to our high school students and we’ll talk about this um this is the black female scholarship we do award one to black male which is the latisha lightfoot berg scholarship which was one of the charter
Members of the or of the ann arbor alumni chapter both have to be graduating high school seniors with a grade point average of 2.75 or greater exhibit leadership abilities engage in community service participate in extracurricular activities plan to attend the correct accredited college or university beginning fall semester of september 2022
You do have to be a resident and attend school in the washtenaw county area we do have other scholarships that are available and i will go over those we also have the book scholarship which is awarded to a washtenaw county community college award winner and we also have the most improved
Recognition award which is the unsung history award and that is to african american male or female 8th grade students that demonstrate overall academic improvement behavior performance and extracurricular involvement so please join us send us children who are in need you can contact the ann arbor alumni chapter by visiting the website at www.anarboroalumnydeltas.com
Or you can send information at info ann arbor deltas.org that’s info at ann arbor deltas.org thank you thank you so much sister stone for that great presentation again uh we will update the slides to make sure that everybody’s contact information is listed and again don’t forget to check out
Scholarships with delta sigma theta sorority incorporated the ann arbor alumni chapter next we’re going to have phi beta sigma fraternity incorporated the pyro sigma chapter for the great lakes region and our michigan area and we’re going to have brother wayman hayes give us information about his organization who is also the brother
Organization to the zetas zeta phi beta sorority incorporated and they’re going to also talk about what scholarships and programs they offer brother wayman i’m sorry brother hayes thank you so much for this time to uh being everybody presence and to hear all the wonderful great things that’s going on
Uh fight by the sigma was founded in 1914 so next slide oh there we go i’m sorry some of the things that we had to offer during covet we did we fed the front line workers uh over a hundred workers throughout the month next slide please our motto is
Uh culture for service and service for humanity we promote brotherhood scholarship and service and everything that we do we work with local schools we have a young man program called young men in motion and we also participate in a lot of different mail groups to bring our young men up next slide please
This is one of the pictures showing we have an etiquette class teaching our young man about brotherhood also how to cook also about how to go out in public but one of the great things that we offer now is a wonderful scholarship what we’re here to talk about today
Our scholarship will be uh released in march we’ll talk about in march of being promoted apple is going to start some applications on april 2nd 2022 we’re going to give two young men in high school a scholarship as well as a young man and freshman in college a scholarship as
Well uh we’re going to begin ourselves applications on april 2nd 2022 and all the awardees will be notified by may 26th at a luncheon we have a great luncheon for the individuals uh i try to keep it short as possible so thank you so much nothing wrong with keeping this short
Get straight to the point we appreciate you all right so we’re going to be talking about the home squad for my favorite organization zeta phi beta sorority incorporated we have been in existence for 102 years and our principles are scholarship service sisterhood and final womanhood if you want more information about zeta phi
Beta sorority incorporated you can visit us at wwz5b1920.org just a brief her story we put a little spin on it we were founded january 16 1920 on the campus of howard university in washington dc by five co-eds who we refer to as our pearls uh arizona ladonna cleaver stemmons and pearl anna
Neil fanny petty watts viola tyler and myrtle tyler the women dared to depart from the traditional coalitions for african-american women and sought to establish a new organization and again our was our scholarship service sisterhood and final womanhood and we’ve blazed trails and different many things a lot
Of your members of zeta phi beta are in education we’re social workers business uh health science whatever it is zeta does it we are every woman so just keep that in mind um we have over 600 chapters located in domestic u.s west africa germany bahama islands dubai virgin
Islands japan south korea and italy the we are the first of many so we want to make sure that we know just like you had brother dana talk about uh the omegas we gonna talk about zeta zeta was the first to be the greek letter organization to charter a chapter in
Africa we are the first to form adult and youth auxiliary groups which are mekai arcanettes amicas and pearles so when we say that we go from girls to pearls we literally mean that we recognize that there are plenty of uh women in the community who have not necessarily received a four-year degree
But they have the desire to serve and so we created the amica which refer to as our friends uh that also helps support uh the organization and its goals and initiatives and we are the only now everybody say you know we we had this little banter everybody say
They brothers and sisters but zeta phi beta sorority and phi beta sigma we have it on our birth certificate honey so i just want y’all to know that when we say we are the blue and white we are the blue and white family ain’t that right brother hayes yes z5
You know all right so road delta zeta chapter of washington county was charted on april 25th 1998 at the great lakes regional uh conference at the westin hotel in detroit our charter members are s joy games who is a well-known attorney in the washington county area laurie d goss um
I got theresa k myers aj read reed janessa sumter and margaret taylor um and we foster and we’re committed in fostering promoting the sorority ideas of final womanhood scholarship service and sisterhood and we incorporate these ideas through everything that we do here’s just a couple of few pictures but i want to be
I want to be clear about a couple of things we understand that kovit set us back but zeta definitely pivoted very well we were still out here marching doing black lives matter we were still out here handing out uh mass and uh covet kit testing kits we are out
Here uh still serving our communities and a lot of our members on our local chapters serve myself i serve on the ipsiland community school board our president uh linda edwards brown is a trustee of pittsfield township as well as a professor at u of m and eastern yes she
Is that smart and we have a lot of other people so taryn willis who is working with me uh with a lot of projects with the school crystal campbell who you’ll hear from later today and so we’re very proud of the members that we have they
Work in all areas so if you need some help i’m pretty sure if you look to the sky and see the blue and white that paula zeta will get it done alrighty so why we are here today uh as we mentioned uh one of the charter members for
Uh zeta phi vader’s uh road delta zeta chapter is margaret ann taylor and uh she unfortunately passed in 2000 and uh we wanted to make sure that we want to fulfill her legacy she was a graduate of benton harbor high school she later received her juris doctorate at wayne state university is a
Graduate of university of michigan got her undergraduate at university of michigan and came through the gamma delta chapter our chapter we oversee the undergraduate chapter at eastern michigan university pie delta and she was just this pillar of the community and we wanted to make sure that we
Continued that legacy and so we offer scholarships each year to an african-american female student who attends a school within washington county as well as her home high school or benton harbor high school and so one of the requirements is you have to complete a 500 essay have a minimum gpa of a 2.8
And you must provide proof of that demonstrate uh that you have active participation in community programs and be accepted and enrolled in an accredited university for fall 2022. uh the last thing is that we will the application period is now open our applications will be due
On march 1st and i’m i’ma say that again they are due march 1st so if you need assistance you can contact us at on social media under real delta zeta uh chapter for zeta 5 8 sorority or rdz 1998 on instagram and you also are we will be
Acknowledging those uh winners at our second annual fulfilling the promise on saturday march 22 2022 i’m trying to get that together now this is a virtual event and it’s a free event but our goal is to raise a minimum five thousand dollars to continue this legacy and so
Anybody in the community can attend i’m asking that all of our uh our friends that are in and family members that are on here today to join us and i’ma tell you we got dj adrenaline and this is one of the livest parties that you will ever go to for
Free online so again it is fulfilling the promise this is our scholarship award ceremony and fundraiser we do it around our final womanhood season and it will be on saturday march 26 from 1 to 3 p.m live on zoom alrighty now lastly we do have zeta phi beta against
First principle is scholarship we also on a national level offer several different other scholarships we have a founder centennial scholarship this scholarship is a hundred thousand dollars it’s for a female uh high school senior who qualifies for free or reduced lunch doesn’t necessarily mean you have to be
Having free taking advantage of it but you at least qualify uh you graduate in may or june of 2022 have a gpa of 3.0 demonstrate a financial need that you are active in the community and that you are affiliated with any member of zeta phi beta sorority so again that means if
You have family members cousins aunties whomever this is a great scholarship it is due on march 2nd i put the link down here for all of these scholarships that are printed to jose geico hbcu change maker if you have a student that is going to female student
That is going to a hbcu they’re offering two 2 500 scholarships that’ll be awarded majors have to be in business math finance computer science gpa has to be a 3.0 again demonstrate a financial need is also commit committed to working in the community and can provide evidence of that and
Affiliate it with any member of zeta they have the mildred spicer west this is for also an african female student uh matriculating full time at hbcu must have a 3.5 gpa and then the arizona cleaver stemmons is another um scholarship for african female student full-time must write a complete essay
And uh also provide transcripts now this one did not provide a gpa requirement but i’m pretty sure it is at least a minimum of 2.5 again additional information regarding the zeta national education foundation uh the link is there we will make sure that everybody has this information but again right
Here that’s all well over 100 uh thousand dollars in scholarships that are offered by zeta phi beta sorority now we’re going to have the beautiful sisters of sigma gamma rose sorority incorporated we have a sister legrand are you ready yes i’m ready all right thank you hello everyone i’m very honored and
Happy to be here with you all um as you all know that um sigma gamma rho is the um youngest um sorority of the mph i’m sorry youngest sorority of the d9 and we have recently just reactivated our ann arbor alumni chapter so i’m really happy that i was able to connect
Um with sister um denise so that i could be a part of this program you all have to forgive me i’m not really good at speaking through a box so um bear with me um sigma gamma rho sorority was founded november 12 1922 at butler university in indianapolis in indiana
We have over a hundred thousand members and we’re in five regions central is the heart of sigma gamma rho because we were the sorority was founded in central region we have the northeast region southeast region southwestern and western regions we have over 500 chapters in the u.s bahamas bermuda belize
Us virgin islands canada germany south korea and the uae we also just recently chartered a chapter in dubai some key things about us or some things that a lot of people probably don’t know is that sigma gamma rho is the only nphc that was charted as a professional organization
Um and that we are the um only mphc sorority founded in a predominantly white institution on butler university campus next slide the zeta zeta zeta sigma is the ann arbor alumni chapter we reactivated december 9 2021. um it is our goal to serve all of washtenaw county um we um we’re um
Our members our charter members have over 50 plus years of combined service in the sorority we have two life members and what we call a ruby member which is 22 years or more in the organization um right now we’re in the process of building up our website
Um but we do have an instagram page it’s dzs poodles so please follow us um so that we can keep you apprised on all of the things that we’re doing locally um our chapter has a lot of goals and plans for the community and i’m so excited
Listening to all my brothers and brother and sister organizations because i’m i’m really hoping that we can partner with you guys for some of our initiatives some of the initiatives that we are really truly excited about is our swim 1922 um national initiative where we um are trying to combat drowning um
Most african-americans don’t know how to swim and we want to change that we want to encourage african-americans to not be afraid of the water and the practice water safety so it’s our hope that we can do a couple of clinics at our local pools like the rutherford pool and also i know that
Um like esther brook has well they used to have a pool i don’t know what’s been happening since covet but we would love to do some clinics there um and just promote safe water safety we really would like to um establish a couple of programs in high schools one
Of our signature programs that we’re establishing will be a prom send-off and we’re really excited about that one as well um i’m a girl scout i you know it’s in my blood so um we really want to partner with um the washington county girl scouts and to support them
Um in their good cookie drives or even possibly you know support on some of the local chapters um thank you excellent so one of the reasons why i’m here is to talk about scholarship locally we do not have a scholarship but i’m really excited because i don’t know
If you guys noticed the date but we were established in 1922 and so we are celebrating our centennial centennial year this year and we are really excited about it we’re planning the park to paint um indianapolis royal blue and gold and i’m hoping to see some
Of our brother and sister orgs there to help us to celebrate but one of the things that we wanted to do because um it is really important to us that we um do something big for centennial but we also want to make sure that we continue to educate our young people and to
Provide them with with the um the funding that they need to continue their education and go to college we have set up a centennial centennial scholarship and on the scholarship is in partnership with our national education fund and we’re going to offer 25 10 000 scholarships for our past presidents or our grand
Basili this is for anyone each scholarship is a one-time award and applicant um you know it sounds like with everybody else they have to be incoming freshmen or they can be continuing or transferring students from an accredited two-year university to a four-year university and they have to be enrolled full-time and we’re also
Offering this to undergrad and graduates grad graduate people studying and um there is a minimum gpa of 2.5 and um oh i’m sorry i just blanked out there and the application um you know high school transcript three letters of recommendation a financial aid award letter professional headshot college and university accepts acceptance letter
School address and your school id and um i just want to say that one of the things that sigma gamma rho is really about is supporting um women and children to have a better life so we also have a couple of stem programs that we’re working on um we’ve um we have affiliates
From the babies to high school students um we have the rowers who are age five to eight we have the i mean i’m sorry we have the rosebuds who are aged five to eight and then we have the rowers who are um age um um i’m sorry
11 to um high school i’m sorry it’s my time up i see the screen advanced um and i just wanted to say if you guys want to reach out further you can reach us at dzs washington gmail.com thank you thank you so much miss uh sister legrand
Um so we’re getting close to that time so we’re gonna uh start to expedite as soon as possible we want to make sure that everything uh everyone gets the information right now we’re gonna have uh iota phi theta fraternity give us information in regards to the programs that they offer
Are you ready brother aaron yes ma’am i appreciate everybody on here thank you miss townsend and all those that’s on this call and also thank you for all my d9 brothers and sisters i am aaron johnston i am a member of iota five theta fraternity incorporated we
Are the last leg of the big d9 and uh for iowa phi theta fraternity incorporated we stand on the principles of brotherhood scholarship leadership citizenship and fidelity and when we were speaking to uh if you look and see if that in september 19th 1963 at morgan state college which is now morgan state
University which is a hbcu of course and if you see it i’m like saying i apologize i’m speaking facts i heard ms thompson saying we gotta expedite and move faster but that’s fine if you see it was founded in 1963 in 1963 of course that was doing the civil uh civil rights
Movement of civil unrest so uh unofficially our founders called themselves the sons of the struggle so in that space when we talk about scholarship i am talking about alpha gamma omega detroit alumni chapter that you see that we have uh many in scholarship but i want to make
Sure that everyone understands that you go to iota phi theta dot org you’ll get a plethora of scholarships and so forth and so on and one thing i want to pretty much nail home to all my young people that’s won this call please always from the d9 take advantage
Of all these scholarships i say go to every organization fill them out cast your nets wide and long because again you never know you can’t catch the fish unless you put it on the hook so make sure you understand those things then we always go through like you say we have
The breezeway scholarship foundation and that was founded at central state university which is also my alum uh uh hbcu which i am an alumnus of also we have the iota youth alliance mentoring program we deal with young men feed the homeless throughout i mean you can see
We can read through but i just want to make sure that you guys understand that in this day and age that we in this global world make sure you take advantage of every opportunity you got because again you got to pay the price and at the end of the day let’s
Say with all these scholarships it is the purpose of them is for your dreams to come true to find your gift to find your purpose so making sure when you talk about the big deny whether it’s my uh brothers and sisters of cross uh panhandle at the panhellenic
Council it’s all about growth it’s about development of one’s self like you say take your shot that’s the reason why we do what we do i appreciate you miss townsend for bringing me back here for this year to even speak to the young people because i heard you gave many
Shout outs to educators that i was on i was blanked out because i was counseling the student as i heard sigma gamma rhonda i know i’m next in a minute let me hurry up so in that space i appreciate you guys and also at the end
Of the day let me just say that this is my psa my public service announcement to all my young people when you enter to that hbcu preferably central state university i look forward to seeing you there that you guys go into education we need more teachers let me say that again
We need more teachers we need because in order to reach one we got to teach one so make sure go into education i love you guys and go to iotapodtheta.org for more scholarship information thank you miss thompson appreciate all right thank you brother johnston now you can go
Ahead and get back to yes [Laughter] but make sure you put us on mute all right so right now we’re going to have jack and jill of america we have the ann arbor and ypsilanti chapters sister brandi merritt and sister to let kitchen that’s going to give us a presentation about their organization
What scholarships and programs they offer thank you and greetings from jack and jill of america incorporated ann arbor and ypsilanti chapters we would like to thank the ypsilanti rotary and ypsilanti community schools for having us i’m brandi merritt president of the ann arbor chapter and i’m tele kitchen i am the special
Project chair of the ipsilanti chapter jack and jill of america we talk about being uh children of the struggle was founded in 1938 in philadelphia uh as mothers it was founded to really create leaders amongst our african-american children and create opportunities for leadership and a normal and graceful approach to a
Beautiful and successful adulthood today jack and jill of america incorporated has a strong growing membership base of over 12 000 families and 252 chapters as the largest african-american family organization in the united states jack and jill of america incorporated is committed to ensuring that all children have the same opportunities in life
Next slide please in jack and jill our mission is really dedicated to children it’s all about the children and nurturing future african-american leaders by strengthening them through leadership development and volunteer service the ann arbor chapter was established in 1978 and currently we have just about 30 moms and 50 children
In the ipsilanci chapter we have approximately 44 mothers and 73 children established in 1986. next slide please now scholarship opportunities throughout jack and jill really start at our jack and jill foundation nationally you’re welcome to go on the jack and jill foundation.org website and look at the scholarships that we have to offer
There’s jacqueline moore bowles scholarships open to college freshmen and juniors with a 3.0 gpa and a minimum of community service hours and there’s also an hbcu college gap program where there’s over 2 million dollars in scholarship endowments for hbcu seniors we do know that that’s an issue in our
Community we get in the school we get to about junior senior year and unfortunately many of us do not have the funds to finish so that gap scholarship is truly critical in the ann arbor chapter we’ve established a local scholarship for graduating seniors throughout the community who are non-jack and jill
Members they must have a 3.0 community of high school gpa and also at least 40 hours of cumulative documented community service now that application window is from april 1st through the 30th of 2022 and to receive notification you can visit our scholarship site or simply visit our jack and jill of america ann
Arbor website the ipsilanci chapter has partnered with infinite scholars scholarship fair program over the last five years and this year this past year 2021 we partnered with eastern michigan university and held that college fair there where multiple students from the community come to uh have access to many different colleges hbcus and um
Excuse me predominantly white in institutions to obtain on the spot scholarships admissions it’s such a great program this happens yearly around the third week of october so look for it for 2022 information will go out definitely to this group as well thank you so much for having us we
Do want to share before we leave the children our future as we have always heard and in jack and jill of america we don’t just want to talk about it we want to be about it so thank you so much for having us thank you so much miss meard and ms
Kitchen for giving us great information about jack and jill and again you can visit the ann arbor uh chapter or ifcelani sites right now we’re going to go ahead and bring on miss england for the palm leaf club miss england are you ready i thought i was like i was mute
All right i’m ready now so um i’m gonna give you uh a brief we have a a deep historical connection to the women’s club movement so i’m gonna give you a real brief connector that uh talks about all the organizations at the palm leaf club belongs to so um even before african
Americans were freed from slavery black women had started to come together to create organizations we looked at which looked after their communities welfare black women were very quick to organize themselves for self-help one of the first african-american women’s club started in philadelphia in 1793. in salem massachusetts there was one
Creating 18 etc so black women’s clubs helped to raise money for the anti-slavery newspaper the north star that probably many of you have heard of many black churches owed their existence to their to the dedicated work of african-american women organizing in their communities black women’s literary
Clubs began to show up as early as 1831. so after slavery was ended in the united states with ratification of the 13 13th amendment in 1865 black women continued to organize and often worked with churches to ensure communities were well taken care of the club movement for black women in the
1890s began to focus on social and political reform and were more secular black women had to face the same issues as white women during this period but were often excluded from services and help that benefited whites only black women were not only excluded from the white clubs were often excluded from clubs um
Created by black men as well in addition many black women felt as though they were defying the stereotypes of their communities women’s clubs allowed them to combat those stereotypes during that period being a member of a women’s club also helped give black women greater social standing in their communities in
1896 the national association of women’s clubs was founded anti-lynching campaigns provoked the president of the missouri press association who viciously attacked black women in in a letter that was widely circulated amongst women’s clubs by josephine st pierre-ruffa in 1895 james w jacks president of the missouri press association received a
Letter from florence bill garney of the english anti-lynching league asking american journalists to help battle lynching his response the negroes in this community the negroes in this country are wholly devoid of morality they know nothing of it except they learn by being caught for flagrant violations of law and punished
Therefore they consider it no disgrace but rather an honor to be sent to prison and to wear stripes clothes the women are prostitutes and all natural liars and thieves the effect of this letter catapulted black women into action and a national call to confer was sent out by josephine st pierre ruffin
In 1896 the in washington dc she is quoted to call everyone together to have a conversation about things that were of special interest to our community including training our children uh preparing for difficult conditions and to come together to protect all our families we have membership that includes women
In uh and youth in 32 states dedicated to raising the standard of the home moral standards and the civic life of the african-american race ruffin eventually helped bring together the nacwc using that letter as a call to action women’s organizations led by women like harriet tubman helen apple cook
Sojourner truth anna duke anna julia cooper and josephine saint pierre ruffin along with so many unnamed as well as ida b wells and her red record that uh was a documentation of the lynching of black americans um were amongst the first women actually to
Be called to be a part of this our motto lifting as we climb was established at the convention in 1890 our national headquarters are located in washington dc at um 1601 r street northwest the palm leaf club in vipsalani is an african-american women’s organization founded in october 30 1904
Originally called the trustee helpers of brown chapel african african methodist episcopal church and we were organized under the ministry of reverend lewis pettifer one of our most notable founders mrs margaret mccoy attended the national call to organize co-founded the michigan state association and was the wife of the
Black inventor elijah mccoy who was the real mccoy after our independence in the 1930s as a women’s civic organization palm leaf continued to work in the community in a variety of ways the club was instrumental in establishing the carver community center in 1942 now known as park ridge community center it sponsored
A daycare nursery volunteered at local hospitals leading and getting the streets paved on the south side of town palm leaf also led in the establishment of the ypsilanti women’s association clubhouse established its annual scholarship t sponsored young women’s clubs in 1997 supporting other and supported other organizations like the naacp and some of
You have been around me we call the iman club of course meals on wheels and other organizations that service african-american youth um we participated in the uh project the african-american history project with the italian district library uh the whitaker road branch emu’s martin luther king jr humanitarian war we were
The first african-american organization to be awarded that particular recognition uh and also the nw we participated in the naacp voter registration project and then support to um the project moving forward by looking back uh the history of african-american women in ann arbor in ypsilanti in 1940 to 1970
That the ann arbor chapter of the lynx conducted and currently sponsored and we currently sorry sponsor a young adult chapter at western michigan university called the women of poison prestige our scholarship program was established in 1943 by mrs gertrude warren mrs gertrude francois warren initially for graduates of our local
High school over the years we have i added both ypsilanti community schools and lincoln consolidated schools as well and um are offering annually two scholarships currently the scholarships are for one thousand dollars each to be considered the palm leaf scholarship uh school i’m sorry to be considered for the palm
Leaf club scholarship the student must have obtained a 2.5 or better by the end of the first semester of their senior year applicants must also complete submit an application as a part of that process students will be asked to attend an interview so please remember that later incomplete
Applications will not be considered uh the scholarship deadline is march 28th detailed application information has been sent already delivered to the uh counseling offices at the two local schools ipsalani community high school and lincoln consultant consulted high school uh counseling offices if you have any
Questions you may be in touch with me my email address was on the bottom of that slide so as you revisit this on the uh slide you will you will find that contact information thanks for inviting us it’s our pleasure to serve thank you so much mrs england we
Appreciate you all right we only have a few more organizations we thank you for your patience um again we have so much information out there and we want to make sure our students get it right now bethel ame church will have sister larita thomas everybody knows mr thomas she’s been
Working in this community for many years i was up doing slides last night and she was up too i was like well right now so she’s still working uh sister thomas go ahead and uh provide information thank you thank you sister johnson and thank you to ics and rotary for
Allowing uh bethlehem church to join you as you know when you study black history black church is the foundation of our history and is intertwined in it wherever you go the ama church on the national level and sister eaglin just spoke um to our departed palm leaf club
In black history on uh the bethel uh not bethel but amy in general at the national and international level supports 18 institutions of higher education hbcus and theological areas uh so education has long been part of our spiritual mission at the local level uh bethel amy church has granted
Scholarships to our own members uh for as long as we can remember and this year our church in its mission to serve our community is proud to offer four scholarships um to the general community in uh washington county and western wayne county our pastor is reverend michael evans i’m
Senior and the scholarship ministry is chaired by brother mark flancher and i serve on that scholarship ministry so a total of five thousand dollars will be available our first scholarship is named for james anderson one of our members who has served this community in many capacities most of you will recognize
Him as a predominant a realtor in the area our second scholarship is named for reverend gwendolyn boyd who is the 22nd national president of delta sigma theta a member of the ame church and she ministered to us by i guess ministry uh pre-pandemic and the local chapter of
Ann arbor alumni chapter of delta sigma theta of which i am a proud member raised a thousand dollars in her name and this scholarship will be given this year you see our deadline is april 15. you see the link to have access to our scholarship requirements and we have two
More specialty scholarships named for the son of dr joada mile a former principal of here on high an extremely dedicated community member her son passed away he was in the health care field and this scholarship is named in his honor and is directed to a student who
Wishes to pursue a career in the health care field we do invite your applications and finally our community impact scholarship this is a needs-based scholarship the student can be entering any post-secondary education program it does not have to be a two or four-year education or college or university it
Can be any post-secondary education program and only a 2.0 is required we want to support encourage and motivate a student who is in the process of improving and creating the rest of his life again you can have access to the applications at the link below our website and facebook pages instagram
Pages under bethel ame and we invite you to share all of this information with the many many opportunities that have been shared this morning again thank you for the opportunity to be a part of this black history month presentation thank you so much sister thomas next we’re going to have the uh st
Mary’s lodge number four our masons uh do we have uh brother baird available yes sir i’m here can you hear me all right yes i came here all right so getting started here again want to say thank you so much for inviting and allowing us to be able to speak here um
So first just giving a brief history really quickly um of saint mary’s launch number four uh we are uh the third uh oldest lodge here in in michigan we was actually charted in january 19th uh in 1867 and what we specifically focus on is self development as well as developing
Of the community and so some of our members in the area of asu included judges attorneys and educators and servant leaders of washington county and so you know the next slide and then here’s a couple of the events and programs that we’ve done um just to
Kind of walk through like some of the services we do for the organization and give a little bit of a background about uh prince hall masonry as a whole is we are the world’s largest and oldest predominantly black um our african-american uh fraternity and so we were basically initiated
Chartered uh in september of 1784 uh and one of our main founders was prince hall who we now take the name of and there was 14 other members uh down the road that came into insistence here with it and so throughout history uh we’ve been intertwined in black history um a little
Something a little tidbit here just to act i know everyone’s adding their things and it’s um for the divine nine at least for the fraternities at least one founder of every divine knight was a member of a masonic organization and actually our most honorable founder for five minutes
Sigma a langston taylor and the founder uh uh i will brother frank coleman of omega psi five was actually in the same lodge in pythagoras number nine uh in dc so just some interesting tidbits and facts and so for the interest of time we’ll speak about the scholarships and what we
Do is for the grand lodge michigan we have a couple scholarship programs that work out where we have one that’s a reoccurring one that’s a thousand dollars for a person going to a four-year scholarship four-year degree then we have another one for if you’re going to community college and then we
Do have a scholarship too as well for individuals who are going to do a trade um to be able to assist them um in addition to that we do have another scholarship for the michigan council of deliberation which is the scottish rite masons which is another subject of our
Organization uh and they have the same type of structure as well which you’ll be able to be able to find that on our facebook page and our websites here um so again i i thank you so much for the time and opportunity for for allowing us to speak and um
Again uh go mob to my my friends that’s what i’m calling to the swords yeah how you doing so we we’re gonna have the family uh reunion later okay all right next we’re gonna have the naomi chapter number 12 of the order of the eastern star my sore roar
Crystal campbell will go ahead and give this presentation sarah campbell hey there good afternoon good afternoon to the island rotary chapter good afternoon so uh ifs atlantic community schools hey scholars i hope that we have some students uh who are joining the space today um and good afternoon to all
Of the uh all the folks who are presented today there’s some really amazing history i bring you greetings from naomi chapter number 12 order of the eastern star prince hall affiliated jurisdiction of michigan we have been quietly and humbly serving here in ann arbor michigan since 1918.
So just a little bit of prince hall history i’m not going to go through all of it in the interest of time what you should know is that our colors are blue yellow white green and red in that order um and you’ll see that all of the other organizations that are presented here
Also uh represent those colors prince hall order of eastern star was chartered and organized on december 1st in 1874 like so many of the other divine knight organizations we were also chartered in washington dc quick fact the order of the eastern star was a predominantly white organization
That was actually founded in 1850 so 1874 is the date for prince hall or predominantly black eastern star uh 1850 is the date for eastern star in general it was originally for the daughters widows wives sisters mothers of master masons but we’ve since extended that membership
Um and then i would be remiss not to mention our presiding officers kiana and cowan and brian l david uh johnson served as the grand matron and grand patron for the state of michigan and then sherry pritchard and the incomparable tyrone hampton served as the matron and patron for naomi chapter
Uh in ann arbor this is just a little bit about a naomi chapter in the service that we do our chapter was chartered on july 17th 1918 so this year marks 104 years of humble and silent service here in ann arbor um saint mary’s lodge number four
Stephen beer said those are our brothers we are really excited to serve with them in the area you can move to the next slide and the reason that we’re here today naomi chapter offers uh book scholarships and we do this every year this year scholarship is open to any
2021 or 22 graduate because we understand we’ve been in a pandemic right everyone didn’t have the opportunity to access official uh transcripts and other information that was needed last year all you need to do is to be a student who attended high school in washington
County the deadline is may 1st we have a very simple and accessible and equitable application we need two letters of recommendation in your official transcripts the uh chairperson for the naomi scholarship is crayola larkin who is the number two in charge at naomi chapter and her email is listed there
You can move to the next slide and then the prince hall grand chapter who is our presiding body unlike some of the other organizations each state of uh eastern star and masonry is sovereign that means they they get to set their own policies rules and regulations and
So the state of michigan is called the prince hall grant chapter i’m the chairperson of the agnes fairfax bristol scholarship is named for a very active sister and principal grand chapter every year we award to one student it is 500 per year for four years so you’re
Earning a total of two thousand dollars over the course of your college education um we require an official transcript and we allow folks that are not just those folks that are going to a four-year college or university if you’re going to a community college if you’re entering into a trade school
We just want to help support students that are looking to advance their education two letters of recommendation the deadline is july 1st and the email uh to get more information is listed there it’s been a pleasure to serve it’s a pleasure to be on this program today i
Know we’re at the end of our time z5 to all muscle roars blue fly to all my frat you all have a great afternoon thank you so much sister campbell for giving that information we’re going to go ahead and go over to the ann arbor club of the national association of
Negro business and professional women’s club inc uh ms curry are you available yeah ready yes i’m ready um good afternoon everyone um thank you for um inviting me on behalf of the ann arbor club of the national association of negro business and professional women’s clubs incorporated our mission is to promote and protect
The interests of african-american business and professional women to serve as a bridge for young people seeking to enter business and the professions to improve the quality of life in the local and global communities and to foster good fellowship um our the ann arbor club was chartered in june of 1976
We are 501 c 3 charitable organization and since 1979 our club has been awarding scholarships to deserving high school seniors in washington county the scholarships are available to any african american student female or male attending a public high school in washington county who has achieved a senior graduation status
Each year club awards scholarships ranging from 500 to a thousand dollars to these deserving high school graduates um requirements and criteria um is a completed application two letters of recommendation one must be from a school staff member official copy of your high school transcript official copy of your act or sats um sat
Results in an essay statement with which is 150 to 200 words and the criteria that we look at is financial need academic achievement including grades ranking in class standardized test scores and achievement test scores community and extracurricular involvement leadership your participation in other specific activities awards and recognition and personal or family attributes
If you’re interested in applying um please send an email to aanna bpwc gmail.com or diane curry v-i-a-n-e-c-u-r-r gmail.com applications and informational letters are also being given to the counselors and administration at the local high schools um the application deadline is march 13th of 2022 and my contact information is the email as
I’m the scholarship chair thank you for your time and i appreciate everyone listening and you enjoy the rest of your day thank you miss curry for your patience and always providing good information all right so now we’re going to have the island community school foundation uh
We’re going to have the chair of the scholarship uh dj sharif who was a former educator with ypsilanti community schools and she’s going to give us information about the numerous scholarships that the foundation provides dj yes thank you good morning everyone and i also want to mention that i’m a proud
Member of delta sigma data sorority incorporated so i thought it was just appropriate that i mentioned that but we can move to the next slide so the iphone community schools foundation was initially um established in the 80s under the leadership of multiple board members as well as dr
James hawkins who’s also a member of kappa alpha psi fraternity incorporated but it was reestablished in 2007 as a non-profit with four main pillars and the main pillar that i want to focus on today is the recognition of students who work to their highest potential in the form of awarding scholarships and grants
For the second time we can move to the next slide so you’ll just see some of our board of directors and because we mentioned um some members of the d9 i want to be sure to acknowledge some who are on our board as i mentioned uh dr james hawkins um
Myself we have uh jarelyn lynn who’s a soarer member of delta sigma theta charles ramsey member of kappa alpha psi and um bonnie taylor who’s also a sore a member of justice sigma theta i want to acknowledge all of our board members who uh vigorously fundraise on
Behalf of our students um nycs and supporting our teachers in providing mini grants we can move to the next slide on this slide you’ll see the various um ycs um foundation scholarships that we offer to the right you’ll see the amount to the left you’ll see the scholarship
Name i’ll go over some of the high level scholarship that is being supported that is being supported by our foundation um the brave women scholarship is actually funded by a 2006 graduate kimberly budden who is also a member of alpha kappa alpha sorority incorporated um the dr james and vivian
Hawkins scholarship is uh with myself devon swanson who’s a member of alpha phi alpha fraternity incorporated the forever brave and ophelia family scholarship is funded uh through tiffany of philly the olympian who’s also a 2005 ypsilanti uh graduate who’s also a member of the beta ada chapter of alpha phi i’m sorry alpha
Kappa alpha sorority incorporated um the late pastor of victoria james memorial scholarship is founded it’s funded by uh devon uh swanson who’s a member of alpha phi alpha um our scholarships are um very innovative especially going um into the 2022 cycle and just thinking about how to support students with any
Post-secondary opportunity that they’re interested in that is just not limited to a two and four-year um college experience and we can move to the next slide and this is the aquarium slide it’s just highlighting some of the timelines in regards to the scholarship cycle the application link will be available to all ycs
Counselors college advisors and senior teachers i’ve been in collaboration um with members of ychs um ms mitchell has been super helpful in giving us feedback on the application process on how to make it more accessible to students and also connecting us with senior teachers so that they’re involved so we can get a
Robust application pool the application will launch on wednesday february 16th it will close on april 22nd at midnight or 11 59 and i’ll make sure to notify all awardees no later than wednesday may 11th right now we tentatively have our scholarship ceremony scheduled for may 26th
It is to be determined if it’s going to be in person or virtual at the bottom you’ll find my contact information if you have any questions or concerns or if any teachers want me to come to their class to support students with the essay writing process or just having a robust
And rigorous um or competitive application i’m happy to support our students so that they get the funding that they need i know that amanda smith who is also a board member is on the line so i want to give her opportunity to share anything if necessary
Thanks tj just want to say thank you to you for all of your leadership in our scholarship work thank you amanda thank you dj and amanda for providing information um we are on our last presenter which we’re going to go back to my sora taran willis she’s going to give information in
Regards to back credit is childish and the scholarships that they offer taryn yes thank you thank you thank you um so uh bad credits childish is a locally based um organization and company called owned by linwood powell and willie johnson both natives of it’s celante um i have it that it’s founded in
2021 although they had had the time travelers credit repair company prior to that but recently they have launched bcic academy which is designed for students to learn at a young age about credit budgeting saving and investing we currently do you can go to the next slide we do have two scholarship opportunities
We definitely believe in empowering students who want to continue their education but also for students who have entrepreneurial endeavors after high school graduation so there is a 500 scholarship for um continuing your education and then there is a 500 entrepreneur endeavor scholarship um where we would help you
Um with launching your company or you know help you in marketing and just mentorship all of these applications are available at bcic academy.com backslash scholarship linwood and willie are doing great work in the community we have done some special programming at ypsilanti community schools at detroit public schools we’re working
Currently with the university of michigan news media course we have five interns from there along with eastern michigan university upward bound and possibly a partnership with united way so they are doing great work it is important that uh our students are educated at a young age about um
Finances and how to obtain generational wealth so again you can find information about the academy at bciacademy.com and you can also go and follow us on social media bad creditors childish is on instagram facebook and tick tock thank you denise all right so i just wanted to again
Thank everybody for joining us i appreciate the family when you put the call out and they respond that’s a testament to everything that we do in the spirit and the culture of this community again we will share all of the information with the district uh this
Event will be aired on facebook live and safe so you can go back and revisit if you miss something if you can also contact your local uh school counselors or each individual organization if you have que uh questions of how to apply uh criteria things like that but the key is to apply
You don’t know what is possible for you until you apply if you got questions you can call me my information is on the uh district uh website or you can give me a call directly at one one six 734-695-1164 i gathered a lot of information i’m gonna be reaching
Out to some orgs for some partnerships uh sigma gamma rho i’m on the board for the rutherford pool so i might take your program and get back in there one day but i gotta get get it all together it ain’t the same but um i want to make sure again to
Thank you i can’t wait to the summer we gonna get together have us a good good old time and everybody be blessed make sure that you apply apply apply as always ycs is dynamic and we are truly stronger together be blessed You
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