National Trends & Services

Link Lillie Wilson, Chairperson

The National Trends & Services Facet is dedicated to providing exposure and solutions to problems affecting African-American Communities in the United States. The facet addresses issues related to health, economic independence, financial achievement and assistance, educational empowerment and our overall lifestyles. Some of the Chapter’s National Trends & Services Programs include:

• Annual Walk-A-Thon: Project Walking Fete’ (proceeds donated to local charities and the Links Foundation)
• Northmore Elementary School Cell Phone Donation program: A partnership providing cell phones to local shelter and transitional facilities for emergency phone calls
• “Empowering Women Under an Umbrella of Education”: presented by Dr. Debra Robinson of the Palm Beach County School Board
• The Doris Miller Project: securing signatures on a petition seeking to award a Congressional Medal of Honor to this World War II Veteran and Hero during the attack on Pearl Harbor
• Suit Drive to benefit women re-entering the workplace, in partnership with the Palm Beach County Medical Alliance
• TAB Learning Center : An after-school learning program for 25 minority students in grades K-6, to promote reading
• Donations of toiletries and personal items to St. Ann’s Shelter
• Annual financial assistance to the American Cancer Society
• Annual financial assistance to the Sickle Cell Foundation
• Annual financial assistance to the Urban League of Palm Beach County
• Financial assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina
• Exposure at all Links events to the Links National Bone Marrow and Organ Donation Programs