It started nine years ago with a three hundred dollars ($300.00) budget and twenty-five neighborhood children. January 1997, the program known as “Kappa Days of Caring was founded. Kappa Days of Caring is a mentoring and tutoring program conducted at Guthrie Elementary School. Students from the neighborhood, surrounding area and other parts of Memphis and Shelby County are tutoring in math, reading, and language arts. The students are also introduced to a positive “Life Skills” program along with motivational speakers and fieldtrips. The program was initially launched as a program for boys of the Guthrie Elementary School, a failing inter-city school. However, Kappa Days of Caring has grown to serve the needs, dreams, and hopes of students, male and female, first grade through high school from through out the Memphis and Shelby County community with an annual budget exceeding that of $50,000.00 and the initiation of a scholarship fund for graduating seniors

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The Levi Elementary Positive Achievement Awareness Day Program is an annual program that is an expansion of the Kappa Days of Caring concept. The focus of the program is to reward and motivate at risk students of Levi Elementary. The program rewards the efforts of at risk students and through mentoring and positive reinforcement. The program also motivates the at risk students not to give up on their dreams and the idea of positive achievement. The program is well received by the students, parents, school, and the school administration. This program increases the efforts of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. Memphis Alumni Chapter in making a difference in the lives, hopes, and dreams of the students of the Memphis City Schools.

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Brother to Brother

“Suppose black men were suffering through an epidemic. What if the disease struck as many as 20 percent of all African American men during their lives, and what if 15 percent of those with the most severe strain of the illness died? Imagine that the disease made men miss work, and made them less motivated and productive when they were on the job. Imagine further that even black men at the top of their professions were affected, rendered less decisive, their judgment impaired. And what if, in an effort to ease the pain of the disease, many African American men medicated themselves with addictive, deadly drugs? What if black families were being destroyed by this illness? What if many of the men suffering from this disease lost hope so completely that they placed little value on human life--theirs or anyone else's?”

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