2006 - 2010 Program
The Heart of ESP: An Extraordinary Service Program
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.
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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.
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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.