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Extraordinary Service Program
(ESP)
Alpha Kappa Alpha responds
to the contemporary needs of the Black community with
comprehensive non-traditional programs. The ESP vision embraces a
five-pronged program designed to excite, galvanize and ignite the
passions of more than 180,000 members worldwide. The goal is to
transfer this enthusiasm into a collective resolve to parlay
members' talents, energy and creativity to realize Alpha Kappa
Alpha's enormous potential for empowerment, security and progress.
Drawing from the Sorority's tremendous reservoir of strength and
commitment to serve, this extraordinary service program will have
an immediate impact on its members, constituents and the broader
community and powerful results well into the future.
PLATFORM #1
Non-Traditional Entrepreneur
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.
PLATFORM #2
Economic Keys to Success
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 #3
Economic Growth of the Black Family
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.
PLATFORM #4
Undergraduate Signature Program:
Economic Educational Advancement Through Technology
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 #5
Health Resource Management and
Economics
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.
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