Greater Service, Greater Progress

  • Operation BigBookBag is a program designed to address the needs, challenges and issues that face school-aged children who are educationally at-risk, in local homeless shelters and extended-care hospitals and facilities.

  • Our goal is to provide quick and easy access to reference materials and other studying aids and tools that will help students with educational endeavors in effort to keep them current and up to date. Also assist shelters, youth centers, schools and hospitals in their efforts to meet some of the educational needs of children and young adults housed at their facilities.

  • Due to the needs of local youth and abundance of school supplies donations in our schools due to the virtual COVID-19 year, we pivoted to provide backpacks full of food to students and refills stored within the school for easy access to these students.

  • The Youth Symposium is designed to highlight some of the prevalent concerns that negatively impact our youth (drugs, teen violence, low esteem, suicide, teen pregnancy, human trafficking, etc.)

  • Our goal is to be relevant in the lives of our youth while also improving educational and behavioral outcomes.

  • We have also partnered with Hair Kutz for Kids in conjunction with The Youth Symposium and Operation BigBookBag.

  • Project Cradle Care is a prenatal health program that seeks to improve pregnancy outcomes in high-risk communities by increasing the number of women of childbearing age in receiving adequate parental education and care.

  • Project Cradle Care’s financial contributions help improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality.

  • Project Cradle Care helps and supports teen mothers prepare for life with a newborn by supporting continued education and development.

  • Women’s Wellness Initiative is a consolidated effort that allows educational and programmatic efforts that include, but are not limited to Breast Cancer Awareness, Intimate and Domestic Violence, Heart Health, Diabetes Health, Mental Health and other issues that target women.

  • Our goal is to encourage women to maintain a healthy lifestyle and minimize health risk and ensure there is a representative number of African American women in health studies.

  • We seek to empower women to make informed decisions about their physical, mental and emotional health. Our membership collectively wears red on the first Friday during the month of February to help bring awareness to heart disease which is the #1 killer of women. This impactful annual event is called “Rhoyal Goes Red. “

  • Swim 1922 was created to address the unfortunate truth that according to the CDC, approximately 10 people drown every day in the U.S.A. An even more startling fact is that 70% of African American children and 60% of Hispanic children in the U.S. do not know how to swim.

    The program provides opportunities for the youth and adults within the African-American community to learn water safety in general and swimming specifically, reduces the level of fear and apprehension of learning to swim and opens minds and changes attitudes regarding Blacks and swimming.