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Whereas the focus of AKA on all issues economic—Economic 
Awareness, Economic Sufficiency and Economic Em-
powerment resulted in programs that have pumped more 
than $23,000,000 into the local communities throughout 
the globe; 
Whereas AKA sponsored forums and discussions on economic 
issues that increased economic literacy and economic 
growth, improved living standards, fostered health con-
sciousness, and led to implementation of programs to 
make individuals and communities more economically via-
ble by adopting families to increase their viability and 
economic growth; 
Whereas AKA instituted a series of systematic administrative 
and financial reforms that enabled the sorority to elimi-
nate a $1,200,000 Federal tax liability and return the or-
ganization to sound financial footing; 
Whereas AKA has served as educational guardians by launch-
ing the Undergraduate Signature Program: Economic 
Educational Advancement through Technology on 10 
beta site college campuses worldwide where residents 
were taught technology skills, which all 300 under-
graduate chapters implemented; 
Whereas AKA initiated ABCs for HBCUs (Advocates for 
Black Colleges), which resulted in more than $650,000 
distributed to Black colleges and strengthened Alpha 
Kappa Alpha’s long-standing position as a board member 
of the United Negro College Fund; 
Whereas AKA made an historic $1,000,000 donation to How-
ard University; 
Whereas under the McKinzie Administration, Alpha Kappa 
Alpha Sorority members have been ‘‘spectacular achiev-
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ers’’ through the establishment of its position as a global 
influence when the United Nations’ Economic and Social 
Council (ECOSOC) granted AKA special consultative 
status; 
Whereas AKA was inducted into the Guinness Book of World 
Records for the largest ever sit down dinner in the his-
tory of conventions worldwide, when 16,206 members 
dined at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center 
during the Centennial Celebration; 
Whereas AKA has served as a servant to services nationally 
by donating and helping to build Habitat for Humanity 
Homes for 2 families displaced by Katrina from New Or-
leans and Gulfport, Mississippi, and in so doing, per-
formed 1,150 hours of construction work and, in July 
2007, became the first organization of its kind to make 
such a donation; 
Whereas AKA distributed food to more than 400 New Orle-
ans families in one day through a partnership with Feed 
the Children; 
Whereas AKA fanned out to communities worldwide as part 
of President Barack Obama and the First Lady’s Day of 
National Service; 
Whereas AKA has served as servants to service on a global 
level by cementing a $500,000 partnership with Liberian 
President and AKA member Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to 
build the Omega Market Village that will provide finan-
cial and other support for the empowerment of Liberian 
women market traders and to help restore their livelihood 
as they recover from 14 years of civil war; 
Whereas AKA has served as strong guardians of the sorority 
by assuring that all chapters are in compliance with the 
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rules and regulations of the organization through an ex-
tensive evaluation of each chapter; 
Whereas AKA revamped the Membership Intake Process as 
a way to institutionalize the sorority’s value system and 
reduce inactivity; 
Whereas AKA increased the membership 15 percent, doubled 
the sorority’s revenue, and pursued a professional invest-
ment strategy that beat market performance that helped 
increase the organization’s assets by $8,000,000; 
Whereas AKA created a communications arm that blitzed the 
media with news about the organization and generated 
over $2,000,000 in free exposure including global cov-
erage that elevated AKA’s brand and cemented its posi-
tion and stature as one of the world’s foremost service or-
ganizations; 
Whereas under McKinzie’s inspired leadership, Alpha Kappa 
Alpha members have been philanthropists; 
Whereas AKA members and chapters donated over $130,000 
to CARE’s Haiti Disaster Fund; 
Whereas AKA stepped up and contributed during crises that 
upended members and citizens including the raging fires 
in California, the floods in Texas, and the oil spill on the 
Gulf Coast; 
Whereas AKA contributed over $500,000 to Alpha Phi Al-
pha’s Memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; 
Whereas as partners, AKA collaborated with Africare to 
focus on challenges confronting the continent of Africa, 
Chase Bank to create homeownership opportunities for 
members, Loop21 to gauge the 2010 State of Black 
America, and many more; 
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Whereas AKA served as proactivists when AKA coordinated 
a formidable voter registration and education campaign 
whose reach extended to hard-to-penetrate areas and to 
formerly apathetic citizens; 
Whereas this all-out offensive resulted in record numbers of 
citizens joining the voter rolls, becoming more politically 
empowered, and casting their vote in the historic 2008 
election; 
Whereas AKA spearheaded and led a March to the Capitol 
steps in a massive show of solidarity by Black Greek or-
ganizations; 
Whereas the Unity March culminated in the presentation of 
a Unity Resolution that was presented to House Speaker 
Nancy Pelosi; 
Whereas AKA spoke out against injustice and in support of 
equality wherever it occurred including Don Imus’ com-
ments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, the 
Jena Six, and global hunger; 
Whereas as preservers of Alpha Kappa Alpha’s Legacy, AKA 
instituted a program to preserve, maintain, and protect 
Alpha Kappa Alpha’s legacy by continually collecting and 
storing documents and maintaining them at Howard Uni-
versity’s Moorland Spingarn Collection; 
Whereas the AKA Collection includes the digitized Ivy Leaf, 
AKA’s official magazine, mementoes, letters, papers, doc-
uments, photographs and other memorabilia that cap-
tures the 102-year-old legacy of AKA and serves as a re-
pository for researchers and others interested in the com-
prehensive history of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority; 
Whereas AKA donated the Centennial Traveling Exhibit to 
the Washington Historical Society (valued at $450,000), 
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and produced documentary films celebrating 100 years of 
sisterhood and service; 
Whereas AKA acted as protectors and mounted a variety of 
initiatives to protect, uplift and inspire women and girls 
Nationwide and worldwide, including on the continent of 
Africa; and 
Whereas AKA has been progressive in implementing a ‘‘best 
in class’’ leadership development program that created a 
core of highly knowledgeable and qualified members to 
lead the nation and world as problem solvers and service 
providers during the challenging times that lie ahead: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) acknowledges the leadership of immediate 
past international president Barbara Mckinzie of the 
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and her efforts 
on behalf of the sorority to fulfill its motto of ‘‘serv-
ice to all mankind’’; 
(2) salutes the efforts of the Alpha Kappa 
Alpha Sorority, Inc., on a domestic and international 
level; and 
(3) recognizes the significance of Alpha Kappa 
Sorority, Inc., as an organization that continues to 
make a global impact worldwide. 
Æ 
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