Connected in Service
Friendship, integrity, honesty, service, commitment, family relationships, courage, respect for self and others, legacy, confidentiality, responsibility and accountability.
What are Links Incorporated core values?
Over 16,000 professional women of African American descent.
What is the size of the Links Incorporated membership?
Links Co-founder and 2nd National President
Who was Margaret R. Hawkins?
A manual of parliamentary procedure used at meetings that allows everyone to be heard and to make decisions without confusion.
What is Robert's Rules of Order?
Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely
What are S.M.A.R.T goals?
Over 1 million are contributed annually to the community.
How many documented hours of community service do Links members contribute annually?
The essential pillar of Links, Inc. continued existence
What is friendship?
This person served as the initial sounding board for the Hawkins idea to form a social, cultural, and civic minded organization for elite black women in Philadelphia. This person's opinion was believed to be important because of their similar lifestyle to Hawkins, and their strong political connections to civil rights leaders, Roy Wilkins and Adam Clayton Powell.
Who was Sarah Strickland Scott?
This is used to introduce a recommendation to the membership for their consideration. It is prefaced with the statement, "I move. . ."
What is a main motion?
Voter Suppression ("When We All Vote"); U.S. Census (provide tutorials to our community); and Help for the Homeless (partnership with Hope of the Valley; Hope Gardens)
What are WA NTS Priorities?
Londyn Adams, Sylvia Griffin, and Kayla Jefferson
Who are the SFV Links Inc. current scholarship recipients?
Patricia Roberts Harris (1st AA woman to hold a US Cabinet post, 1977); Constance Baker Motley (1st AA woman to serve as a federal judge, 1980); Elizabeth Duncan Koontz (1st AA woman to serve as president of the National Education Association, 1984); Leontyne Price; Condoleeza Rice (1st AA to serve as Sec of State); Rosa Parks ("first lady of civil rights"); Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (1st female elected Head of State in Africa); Kamala Harris (Madam VP)
Who are Power Links?
May 9, 1973
When was the San Fernando Valley (CA) Links, Inc. Chapter chartered?
This is used to "kill" a motion.
The Links, Incorporated is a national affiliate of this financial literacy program that teaches the basics of budgeting and credit, banking and investing, and financing a vehicle.
What is Ally Wallet Wise?
Safe Harbors Network and ZOE International
Who were SFV Links, Inc. ITS facet partners during the 2020-21 year?
This closed (private) activity embraces and reaffirms one of the founding tenets of the Links, Incorporated.
What is the Friendship Ceremony?
This was the terminology initially used to designate Links chapters.
What were "clubs"?
This phrase is used when there has been an infraction of the rules, or improper decorum in speaking. It must be raised immediately after the error is made.
What is "point of order"?
Produce and support programs that enrich the quality of life of our youth and communities through educational and engaging art experiences while Transforming Communities, Fulfilling Our Purpose.
What is the goal of the Arts Facet?
SFV (CA) Links partners with this nonprofit corporation to provide opportunities for our mentee, Michelle Lagrace Wilborn and others like her to learn and perform world music in magnificent settings of the local community.
What is Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (ICYOLA)?
This person provides expert leadership and applies the glue for effective collaboration in friendship and service.
Who is Madam President?
Link Annette Williams
Who was the SFV (CA) Links Inc. chapter organizer?
What is said when someone wants to close debate on an issue previously brought forth by a motion. (This requires a second, and must pass by a 2/3 vote)
The first program facet. This year, one of the facet activities was a book donation to members in the community of Anti-Racist Baby, a transformational lesson on social justice.
What is the Services to Youth Facet?