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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated
Alpha Kappa Alpha is the oldest Greek letter organization established in
America by Black college women. It was founded on January 15, 1908
at Howard University in Washington D.C. and incorporated on January 23,
1913. Since its founding, the sorority has grown to a membership
of over 100,000 college trained women. There are more than 6000 undergraduate
and graduate chapters in the United States, Liberia, West Africa, the Bahamas,
the Virgin Islands, and Germany. Its official headquarters is in
Chicago, Illinois.
Alpha Kappa Alpha is a service organization whose contributions range from
making monetary donations to varied agencies involved in social action,
such as the United Negro College Fund and the NAACP, to volunteering women-hours
to effect social change. Currently, Alpha Kappa Alpha supports eight
National Programs. These programs are: Job Corps in Cleveland,
Ohio, Reading Workshops, Negro Heritage, Voter Education and Registration,
Domestic Travel Tours, Civil Rights Projects, Sister AKAdemics, and Housing
Foundation.
The purposes of Alpha Kappa Alpha are to cultivate and encourage high scholastic
and ethical standards, to promote unity and friendship among college women,
to maintain a progressive interest in college life, and to be of human
service in the study and alleviation of social problems. Membership
in the sorority is open to women of high ethical and scholastic standards
who are pursuing or have completed a course leading to a degree at an accredited
college or university. Through community service and national projects
we, the members, strive to make our community and world a better place
for women and children.
