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The Links Incorporated Nage Gibson-Thompson 2024-02-21T22:38:27+00:00 Members Only Search for: Toggle Navigation The Links, IncorporatedMission & Vision Leadership Members Contact Us The Links Foundation, Incorporated About the Foundation General Donation The $10M Endowment Fund Campaign $19.46 Campaign Community Engagement Programs Legislative Issues and Public Affairs National Partners & Collaborators Meetings & Events National Calendar Vendor Portal Certified Vendor List News & Media In The News Podcasts Social Media Videos Photo Galleries Member Resources Members Only Login National President Guest Appearance Request Form The Links Boutique National Green Pages WHO WE ARE The Links, Incorporated is an international, not-for-profit corporation, established in 1946. It is one of the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations committed to enriching, sustaining, and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African Americans and other people of African ancestry. MISSION Friends transforming communities through service. MEMBERS The members of The Links, Incorporated are influential decision makers, opinion leaders and distinguished achievers. SERVICE The Links members contribute more than 1 million documented hours of community service annually. PHILANTHROPY In 2022, The Links Foundation, Incorporated named its sixth $1 million Legacy Grant recipient – the Obama Presidential Center. OUR STORY On November 9, 1946, Margaret Rosell Hawkins and Sarah Strickland Scott, two young Philadelphia visionaries, co-founded The Links, Incorporated. They invited seven of their friends to join them in organizing a new type of inter-city club. The two women envisioned an organization that would respond to the needs and aspirations of Black women in ways that existing clubs did not. It was their intent that the club would have a threefold aim — civic, educational, and cultural. Margaret Rosell Hawkins Co-Founder Sarah Strickland Scott Co-Founder OUR REACH 17,000+ Number of Links members 299 Number of Links chapters 1 million Number of documented service hours members contribute annually Program Spotlight HeartLinks The HeartLinks signature program encourages Links members and the communities we serve to take an aggressive stance against heart disease, the number one killer of African American women. HeartLinks accomplishes its goal by equipping our members with numerous ways to implement heart healthy programs and activities in their communities including our Walk for Healthy Living program, Childhood Obesity Prevention program, cardiovascular risk reduction programming, and Red Dress events. LEARN MORE OUR IMPACT 15 million+ Number of people served during the 2020-2022 programming years $1.4 million Amount chapters donated to HBCU scholarships and endowments during the 2020-2022 programming years $4.3 million+ Amount chapters contributed to scholarships during the 2020-2022 programming years IN THE SPOTLIGHT 4TH ANNUAL LEGISLATIVE LUNCHEON The Links Foundation, Incorporated’s 4th annual Legislative Luncheon brought together thought leaders, legislators, change agents, and other powerful voices. U.S. Representative Joyce Beatty issued a clarion call to action to pursue the eradication of economic, environmental, social, and racial injustices everywhere individually and collectively through Our VOICE. Our VOTE. Our POWER. And we honored outstanding leaders who are standard bearers for service to others, U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, Legacy Award recipient, U.S. Senator Cory Booker, Justice Award recipient, and Majority Whip James Clyburn, Trailblazer Award recipient. UPCOMING EVENTS February 14-18, 2023 Education Across The Miles: Mission Trip To Jamaica February 20, 2023 President’s Day March 18, 2023 Black Family Wellness Expo: National Impact Day of Service Call Us: 202-842-8686 Visit Us: 1200 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington, DC 20005 Quick Links: HomeMembers Only In The News Contact Us Follow Us: © Copyright 2024 The Links, Incorporated – All Rights Reserved | Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions of Use Designed and Developed by VIVO Copyright 2012 - 2024 | All Rights Reserved - The Links, Incorporated | Designed and Developed by VIVO360, Inc . Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Page load link Kimberly Jeffries Leonard National President Kimberly Jeffries Leonard, Ph.D. is a 1986 alumna of Fayetteville State University (FSU), and the 17th national president of The Links, Incorporated. Leonard was tabbed for the post at the organization’s 41st National Assembly in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Links is an international, not-for-profit corporation, established in 1946. The membership consists more than 16,000 professional women of color in 292 chapters located in 41 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, and the United Kingdom. It is one of the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations of women who are committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African Americans and other people of African ancestry. Leonard, a Fayetteville native and graduate of Reid Ross High School, has a broad background in public health. She has expertise in minority health and behavioral health programs, policies, and related legislation; with subject matter expertise in minority health, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, cardiovascular disease, health disparities, health care reform, tribal issues, re-entry and criminal justice issues, international behavioral health, co-occurring mental health and trauma, and women’s and adolescent services. She has more than 30 years of applied health, minority health, and behavioral medicine research, evaluation, and technical assistance and training experience specializing in health promotion and disease prevention. Leonard earned a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Psychology from Howard University and a Master of Science Degree from North Carolina Central University. Her education also includes completing a National Institutes of Minority Health pre-doctoral fellowship at George Washington University Medical School, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences examining chronic disease and family systems, a National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute post-doctoral fellowship at the Howard University Cancer Center, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics studying cardiovascular and cancer epidemiology, and completing the Graduate Summer Program in Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. She is the recipient of the 2005 National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) Alumni of the Year Award for Fayetteville State University where she received her undergraduate degree in psychology. Leonard is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and joined the organization through the Delta Alpha Chapter at FSU. She is a member of 15th Street Presbyterian Church in Washington D.C. and is an Elder in the Church. She is married to Stephen V. Leonard and they are the proud parents of two sons – Victor and Alexander. × Kamala D. Harris Vice President of the United States of America Kamala D. Harris is the Vice President of the United States of America. She was elected Vice President after a lifetime of public service, having been elected District Attorney of San Francisco, California Attorney General, and United States Senator. Vice President Harris was born in Oakland, California to parents who emigrated from India and Jamaica. She graduated from Howard University and the University of California, Hastings College of Law. Vice President Harris and her sister, Maya Harris, were primarily raised and inspired by their mother, Shyamala Gopalan. Gopalan, a breast cancer scientist and pioneer in her own right, received her doctorate the same year Vice President Harris was born. Her parents were activists, instilling Vice President Harris with a strong sense of justice. They brought her to civil...