The Heart
of ESP: An Extraordinary Service Program
Alpha Kappa Alpha responds to the contemporary needs of the Black community with comprehensive non-traditional programs. The ESP vision embraces a five-pronged program designed to excite, galvanize and ignite the passions of more than 180,000 members worldwide. The goal is to transfer this enthusiasm into a collective resolve to parlay members' talents, energy and creativity to realize Alpha Kappa Alpha's enormous potential for empowerment, security and progress.
Drawing
from the Sorority's tremendous reservoir of strength and commitment to serve,
this extraordinary service program will have an immediate impact on its
members, constituents and the broader community and powerful results well into
the future.
PLATFORM #1
Non-Traditional Entrepreneur
Women are seizing the reins of entrepreneurship because they realize that
it is the key to economic survival. As they become more of the business
landscape and their enterprises grow, women are coming face to face with the
challenges of managing and expanding new ventures. To build a strong foundation
for women in business, Alpha Kappa Alpha will create economic expertise,
success in business and power networking opportunities for the non-traditional
entrepreneur.
PLATFORM #2
Economic Keys to Success
Economic development is expanding its reach to a new global frontier. The
Sorority must be poised to compete in these world markets. Simultaneously,
living standards within the Black community must be improved. To achieve these
goals, Alpha Kappa Alpha will, through education, synergy and partnerships,
develop and disseminate the economic keys to success.
PLATFORM #3
Economic Growth of the Black Family
The strength of the Black community hinges on the viability of the family.
If the family foundation is weak, so too will be the broader societal structure
that gives life and nourishes the family unit. Alpha Kappa Alpha is sensitive
to the fact that within the core structure, the Black male, in particular,
faces potentially daunting challenges. Recognizing this, a powerful remedy lies
in devising strategies for assisting young males in overcoming the formidable
challenges to their educational development and well-being. Through activities
that enable, support and provide access, Alpha Kappa Alpha will work to achieve
the economic growth of the Black family.
PLATFORM #4
Undergraduate Signature Program:
Economic Educational Advancement Through Technology
Technology must be mastered if there is any hope of economic educational
advancement. To address this powerful reality, Alpha Kappa Alpha resolves to
work with higher educational institutions and other organizations that reach
students to develop an exemplary model technology access and training program
that serves the community and becomes part of the central activities of the
institution. Driven by this platform, the Sorority will initiate an
undergraduate signature program: Economic Educational Advancement through
Technology.
PLATFORM #5
Health Resource Management and Economics
To reach that stratosphere of satisfaction where one is physically and
mentally fit and poised to embrace all of life's rewards and challenges
requires a balance of emotional intelligence, optimal psychology and
spirituality. Studies prove that when all of these elements are in divine
order, physical health, relationships and life satisfaction will be the result.
Through health resource management and economics, Alpha Kappa Alpha will
address the many health issues and crises that face the Black community in the