The Wilmington, North Carolina Chapter of The Links, Inc.
Linked in Friendship and Service Since 1951
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Wilmington Chapter of The Links, Inc.
PO Box 413
Wilmington, NC 28402
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Our Mission and Vision
The Wilmington, North Carolina Chapter of The Links, Incorporated is a volunteer service organization that is a paragon for social change. It is an international civic organization of accomplished women linked in friendship and service that positively impacts outcomes affecting life in their communities and the world. Its core purpose is collective engagement primarily benefiting people of African descent.
The Wilmington, North Carolina Chapter of The Links, Incorporated, through its members, will become the premier friendship-based civic organization that provides life-changing community service.
Organizational Goals
To target critical youth issues through collective engagement to advocate, educate and advance those issues for the benefit of youth of African descent.
To foster creativity , dreams, and imagination through artistic endeavors.
To prepare and inspire the membership through effective leadership training.
To increase awareness of and provide social and economic aid for global issues affecting people of African descent.
To operate an effective, cost effective, cost efficient, civic organization steeped in friendship and service.
To promote the well-being of persons of African descent by helping to foster their economic growth and stability in a diverse society. To foster and promote strong bonds of friendship.
A Short History of Our Organization
From the official history of The Links, Incorporated:
On the evening of November 9, 1946, Margaret Hawkins and Sarah Scott, two young Philadelphia matrons, invited seven of their friends to join them in organizing a new type of inter-city club. This organizing meeting of The Links was not a spontaneous action. In 1945, Link Hawkins had conceived the idea of a group of clubs composed of friends along the eastern seaboard and had spent many hours with Link Scott in thinking, planning and discussing the possibilities of such an endeavor.
The two women envisioned an organization that would respond to the needs and aspirations of Black women in ways that existing clubs did not. It was their intent the club would have a threefold aim--civic, educational, and cultural. Based on these aims, the club would implement programs, which its founders hoped would foster cultural appreciation through the arts; develop richer inter-group relations; and help women who participated to understand and accept their social and civic responsibilities.
Besides the two founders, the original members of the Philadelphia Club were Links Frances Atkinson, Katie Green, Marion Minton, Lillian Stanford, Myrtle Manigault Stratton, Lillian Wall, and Dorothy Wright. The club elected Margaret Hawkins as president, Sarah Scott as vice president, Myrtle Manigault Stratton as recording secretary, Frances Atkinson as corresponding secretary, and Dorothy Wright as treasurer.