BALTIMORE, MD — Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. is providing up to $100,000 in micro grants to its chapters to support voter education, registration and mobilization efforts for the 2024 United States Election Cycle as a part of one of its oldest general programs, ‘A Voteless People is a Hopeless People’ (VPHP).
The announcement came during its ‘A Voteless People is a Hopeless People’ (VPHP) Town Hall Meeting recently, and in coordination with the Council of Presidents of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) massive voter mobilization campaign. Since the 1930s, VPHP has been in effect as a fraternity general program but shifted its focus to i.e. political awareness and empowerment in the 1990s.
“At no time in our history has exercising our right to vote been more critical with our very Democracy at stake,” said Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. General President and NPHC Council of Presidents Chairman Dr. Willis L. Lonzer, III. “With continued efforts to disenfranchise Black voters, Alpha Phi Alpha as well as the other Divine 9 organizations committed to an historic massive, coordinated voter education, registration and mobilization campaign that exercises the collective strength and influence of the more than 2.5-million-member network of the Divine 9. ‘The D9 is Stronger Together’.”
Each chapter, that applies and is selected, must offer program activities in partnership with a local NPHC chapter, civil rights or advocacy partner, across any of the strategic VPHP program areas, including public issues forums, candidate forums, and/or debate watch, voter and civic education, voter registration drives, and “Get-Out-The-Vote’ programs.
Last month, the Fraternity’s General Board of Directors approved the establishment of the new micro grant fund during its historic 2024 Constitutional Convention in Chicago, IL.
For more detailed information on micro grant criteria and application, visit: www.bit.ly/APAMicroGrant
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