Throughout the 2020-2021 program year the New Orleans Chapter's five facet committees worked with 25 - 8th grade girls attending Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary Charter School. The Chapter developed targeted programming with the goal of preparing students for the next steps in their educational journey and also introduced them to...
Category: Services to Youth
NOLA Links Love Our HBCUs
New Orleans is so very fortunate to be home to three of the great HBCU institutions - Dillard University, Southern University New Orleans and Xavier University. Outside of New Orleans we also love our Grambling State University, Southern University and A & M College (Baton Rouge) and Southern University -...
Kicking-off our 2019-2020 Program Year with Amazing Young Ladies at Bethune Elementary School
Project L.E.A.D. is off to a great start at Bethune Elementary School. The 8th graders had an opportunity to journal, share hopes and dreams and, most importantly, had Links mentors ready to give them the tools to advance successfully to the next level of their educational development.
2018 Project L.E.A.D. Conference – College Readiness 101
On May 7, 2018, The New Orleans Links presented a day long college readiness conference to twenty-five 8th grade girls at Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School. The Project L.E.A.D. Conference was the culmination of a year of activities presented by each facet of the New Orleans Chapter - Arts, Services...
Bethune Eight Graders Visit Washington DC
Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School is the The New Orleans Chapter's partner school. The Chapter hosts and sponsors many activities for the students during the school year. One of the 2018 end of the year activities we were more than happy to assist with was the 8th grade trip to...