15th Annual Links Beautillion

In 2011, the Tallahassee Chapter of The Links, Incorporated established our transformational signature program, the Links Beautillion. The pillars of the Links Beautillion Program are Leadership Development, Mentoring, and Character Education. The program’s mission is to promote higher education while addressing the need for improved high school graduation rates, leadership development, character education and community service learning for African American male students of diverse and socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. Links Beautillion participants attend a five-month curriculum that is oriented around four facets of development: Rites of Passage, Cultural Awareness, Character Education and Leadership Development, Community Service Learning.

The Links Beautillion has provided over $200,000 in scholarships over the past 14 years to 185 Beaux, who participate in the program as high school seniors. An additional 75 young men have participated as Junior Beaux (9th - 11th grade).

The formal presentation of the 2024-2025 Beaux and scholarship awards is tentatively set for Sunday, March 2, 2025.

* *Please Note** the deadline to make a contribution in support of an individual Beau is Saturday, February 15, 2025. All payments and contributions received after that date will be equally apportioned among all Beaux.

The amount of the contribution that is deductible for federal income tax purposes is limited to the excess of any money (and the value of any property other than money) contributed by the donor over the fair market value of goods or services provided by the organization. The fair market value of a ticket to the event is $53.00.

About Us: The Links, Incorporated

The Links, Incorporated is an international, not-for-profit corporation, established in 1946. The membership consists of more than 17,000 professional women of African descent in 299 chapters located in 41 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, and the United Kingdom. It is one of the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations of extraordinary women who are committed to enriching, sustaining, and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry.

Our core values are friendship, integrity, honesty, service, commitment, family relationships, courage, respect for self and others, legacy, confidentiality, responsibility, and accountability. Links members contribute more than 1 million documented hours of community service annually. The organization is the recipient of awards from the UN Association of New York and the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation for its premier programs. In 2019, The Links, Incorporated was nominated for a Luxembourg Peace Prize by the Schengen Peace Foundation and recognized by the late Congressman John Lewis as a distinguished organization of outstanding community service and influence.

The outstanding programming of The Links, Incorporated has five facets which include Services to Youth, The Arts, National Trends and Services, International Trends and Services and Health and Human Services. The programs are implemented through strategies such as public information and education, economic development, and public policy campaigns.

In 1951 the Tallahassee Chapter of The Links, Incorporated was the first chapter to be chartered in the state of Florida.

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