Tallahassee (Fl) Chapter of the Links, Inc. - 13th Annual Links Beautillion

225 Champions Way,Tallahassee FL 32304

05 March, 2023

Description

The Links Beautillion In 2011, the Tallahassee Chapter of The Links, Incorporated established our transformational signature program, the Links Beautillion. The pillars of the Links Beautillion Program are Leadership Development, Mentoring, and Character Education. The program’s mission is to promote higher education while addressing the need for improved high school graduation rates, leadership development, character education and community service learning for African American male students of diverse and socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. Links Beautillion participants attend a five-month curriculum that is oriented around four facets of development: Rites of Passage, Cultural Awareness, Character Education and Leadership Development, Community Service Learning. The Links Beautillion has provided a total $155,800 in scholarships over the past 12 years to 167 Beaux, who participate in the program as high school seniors. An additional 71 young men have participated as Junior Beaux (9th - 11th grade). The formal presentation of the 2022-2023 Beaux and scholarship awards will be held on Sunday, March 5, 2023. About Us: The Links, Incorporated The Links, Incorporated is an international, not-for-profit corporation, established in 1946. The membership consists of more than 17,000 professional women of African descent in 299 chapters located in 41 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, and the United Kingdom. It is one of the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations of extraordinary women who are committed to enriching, sustaining, and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry. Our core values are friendship, integrity, honesty, service, commitment, family relationships, courage, respect for self and others, legacy, confidentiality, responsibility, and accountability. Links members contribute more than 1 million documented hours of community service annually. The organization is the recipient of awards from the UN Association of New York and the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation for its premier programs. In 2019, The Links, Incorporated was nominated for a Luxembourg Peace Prize by the Schengen Peace Foundation and recognized by the late Congressman John Lewis as a distinguished organization of outstanding community service and influence. The outstanding programming of The Links, Incorporated has five facets which include Services to Youth, The Arts, National Trends and Services, International Trends and Services and Health and Human Services. The programs are implemented through strategies such as public information and education, economic development, and public policy campaigns. In 1951 the Tallahassee Chapter of The Links, Incorporated was the first chapter to be chartered in the state of Florida.