Highlights

Mentorship:

The Young Achievers Program: 

For 20 years The Metro-Manhattan (NY) Links delivered “The Young Achiever’s: Go to High School Go to College” Program in Harlem in partnership with the Harlem chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated. Through this partnership hundreds of Black boys in Harlem were mentored and prepared for college, even receiving book scholarships and laptop computers upon high school graduation.   

Young Achievers delivered a structured annual curriculum to high school-aged Black boys. This program has been replicated by more than 30 chapters in The Links, Incorporated and has become a national initiative of The Links, Incorporated. The Metro-Manhattan (NY) Chapter received area and national awards for launching this work, including the National Links Legacy Award as well as national recognition for this program’s alignment with the “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative.

Thurgood Marshall Academy Partnership: 

In 2018 Metro-Manhattan (NY) Links activated a partnership with Thurgood Marshall Academy. Through this partnership “Metro-Manhattan GLOW” was established, a mentoring program for girls. Thurgood Marshall reported that girls are the most underserved population in the school when it comes to extra curricular programming. The “Metro-Manhattan (NY) GLOW” program is structured around a monthly book club for girls in their junior and senior year. Monthly lunch-time book club meetings are bolstered by seasonal mindfulness workshops on topics such as vision boarding and gratitude.

Metro-Manhattan’s (NY) chapter partnership with Thurgood Marshall Academy extends to school-wide activities as well. Such have included a financial literacy seminar with Kevin Hart, sponsored by Chase Bank and a school-wide yoga series delivered in partnership with the NYC Mayor’s office.

Campaign to support HBCUs: 

The goal of The Links, Incorporated’s National HBCU Initiative is to implement and increase the retention and graduation rates of students attending HBCUs, while emphasizing the relevance of HBCUs’ past, present and future.

Metro-Manhattan (NY) Links have activated this initiative in Harlem by organizing HBCU college panels for high school students for more than twenty years. Metro-Manhattan (NY) members who are HBCU graduates draw on personal experience to mentor and recruit students from Harlem to attend HBCUs. We also contribute to the sustainability of HBCU institutions through annual giving.