Everyday brings us new hopes and aspirations and adventures and challenges— both inside the fraternity and outside “our House.”
Like all organizations, Alpha must continue to focus on our mission of developing leaders and promoting academic excellence, while providing service and advocacy for the communities in which we live.
I am asking that every Alpha brother conducts a personal assessment of himself and keep our mission and vision at the forefront of everything we do.
We are a compilation of individual men who collectively make Alpha Phi Alpha. When each one of us improves as an individual, Alpha improves as a whole.
We will continue to make innovative changes in all facets of our operation—budget and management, membership, communications, finance, elections and more.
We will work harder to ensure Alpha is better positioned to continue to make the investments that must be made in the communities that are counting on us, communities in which we are privileged to serve. I welcome your suggestions in this regard.
On the world scene, there is so much for Alpha to do -- from helping our cities heal in the midst of racial strife, to ensuring our young people have equal access to good quality education—from pre-‐kindergarten through college.
We have to also work overtime to make sure all Americans have access to the ballot box. “A voteless people is a hopeless people” is not just a saying—it is very real.
Whether or not there are federal, state, or local elections, does not mean we should rest with our chapter-level and nationwide voter registration campaign.
We should also remember to mentor.
I have spent much of my life doing that as a volunteer with Big Brothers Big Sisters. I urge you to find a young lad who needs a friendly, trustworthy role model and be his mentor. Even if it is just spending one hour a week with a young boy, you can make a world of difference—in his life and yours too!
That is an investment worth making.
And isn’t that why we joined Alpha in the first place?
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