ABOUT EVENT
A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT
In support of the Alpha Jax Foundation in partnership with Gamma Rho Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, please join us in celebration of our signature event, IKONIC: A Fusion of Pink, Arts & Culture. The fundraising event will be held on Saturday, June 7, 2025, and promises to be a night to remember with dancing, live music, food, beverages, door prizes, surprises, and a diverse cadre of entertainment experiences to delight our 1,500 plus attendees!
The Gamma Rho Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® was chartered in Jacksonville, Florida on June 23, 1942, and its membership consists of over 400 professional, influential community leaders.
We are requesting your support for this fundraising event through sponsorship. Proceeds from this IKONIC event will help fund strategically focused programs in the areas of Education, Health, Economic Development, Scholarships, and support our Childhood Hunger Initiative Power Pack (AKA CHIPP ™) program to fight hunger and provide meals to children in our underserved communities.
Your support will help us to sustain and build on this work. Please see the attached sponsorship packet for your review.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] or call (904) 254-6256 to reach our Fund Development Chair Wanda Willis as noted on the back page.
Thank you in advance for your support!
Hear from one of our many scholarship recipients
The Gamma Rho Omega Chapter
Gamma Rho Omega Chapter was chartered in Jacksonville, Florida on June 23, 1942. Ten college-educated, enterprising, dedicated and civic-minded young women who had become members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® on college campuses were the charter members led by Edna Calhoun, who became the first president of the chapter. The other charter members were Daisy Brookins (Burns), Vivian Ellis (Ingram), Louise Gardner (Sheffield), Elizabeth Gordon (Jasmin), Aldonia Hill (Seabrook), Helen James (Taylor), Coatsie Jones, Lois Jones (Roberts) and Melba Brookins Sunday.
Alpha Jax Foundation
Service and sisterhood have been the cornerstone of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® since 1908. With the theme Soaring to Greater Heights of Service and Sisterhood, the 2022-2026 administration seeks to build upon Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority’s rich legacy of service by galvanizing our sisterhood of more than 120,000 active members to lead on the front lines of change, education, and advocacy.
This administration has six initiatives. Strengthen Our Sisterhood will serve as the administration’s “Foundation Initiative” as we strengthen our bonds to support our service mission.
The remaining five initiatives are the “Program Initiatives” which include:
Empower Our Families
Build Our Economic Wealth
Enhance Our Environment
Advocate for Social Justice
Uplift Our Local Community
On June 7, 2024, the Alpha-Jax Foundation Inc., the 501(c)(3) charitable arm of the Gamma Rho Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, presented its inaugural signature event IKONIC. The heralded fusion of the arts brought 1,400 supporters, friends, members and lovers of the arts together for the first of its kind event dubbed the largest fundraising event presented by an organization of color in the history of Jacksonville, Florida.
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